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Mark is enthusiastic about Neil Gaiman’s latest The Ocean at the End of the Lane. We also discuss whether Brad Pitt is entitled to a victory lap for his adaptation of a show-favourite novel, Max Brooks’ World War Z. We cover: Our initial discussion of WWZ Brad Pitt eating The Van‮…

Jon endorses Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken. We also mention: Military Scifi Ender’s Game and Movie John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War John Steakley’s Armor Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s All You Need Is Kill Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War Robert A. Heinlein’s Star‮…

Mark feels the love for the godfather of soul behavioural economic theory. We mention: Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow; his Wikipedia page; his TED talk. Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper Franzenfreude Dor‮…

Jon endorses Jens Lapidus’ Easy Money We also mention: Daniel Suarez’s Kill Decision Tom McCarthy‘s Remainder, Men in Space, and C Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York Dan Chaon’s Stay Awake Nick Harkaway’s Angelmaker and booktrailer Jess Walter’s Bea‮…

Mark is enthusiastic about the Stephanie Plum novels. There was a (gasp!) delay between recording and posting this episode, so a lot of the books that we talk about as ‘coming soon’ are now, in fact, ‘out recently’ and in some cases ‘out quite a while ago’. We&‮…

John endorses Rainbow Rowell’s Attachments We also chat about: Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad Interactive character map by Flip Zembowicz  Paul Haggis Steve Jobs Biography Don Delillo’s White Noise Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding William Gibson’s Z‮…

Mark endorses Max Brooks’ World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. (A note on pronunciation: Mark and I are both Canadian and so pronounce the letter ‘Z’ as ‘zed’, however, that completely ruins the wordplay of the title of Brooks’ book, so we played alo‮…

Special guest Taylor Stevens endorses Deborah Feldman’s Unorthodox. There is a story behind this episode. It was recorded right before Christmas in 2011. I really dug The Informationist. I was super keen to chat with Taylor. The second Vanessa Munroe book was on the way. I emailed her and ‮…

Special guest Kevin Chong endorses David McGimpsey’s Li’l Bastard. We also mention: Kevin Chong’s Baroque-a-nova (French Cover) Kevin Chong’s Neil Young Nation Kevin Chong’s Beauty + Pity (trailers) Kevin Chong’s My Year of the Racehorse: Falling in Love ‮…