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Hosts Nina MacNamara (author, cohost of Pop Medieval) and Engineer Mike (avid reader) examine popular, obscure, and eccentric works of literature to see if they truly hook the average reader -- in the first few chapters.
Frequenza di aggiornamento:
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Durata media dell'audio:
31 minutes
Inglese
Stati Uniti
16 episodi
da 02 Luglio 2023
episodic
ULTIMO EPISODIO 🔗
On this very special episode of First Chapters, Engineer Mike and Nina are joined in Gray Cat Studios by a very special guest, Dr. Richard Scott Nokes (aka Professor Awesome of Pop Medieval fame)! He's here to get Nina through a classic work -- just in time for the second season of a certain elf-y …
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EPISODI PRECEDENTI 🔗
Nina celebrates a milestone birthday, so Engineer Mike offers up Old Man's War by John Scalzi. Will she read it, or will she take offense?
Digressions: Cyberpunk 20-something, the ridiculously named Rhode Island, the Biblical origins of Nina and Engineer Mike, the impending world tour, Crash an…
WHO LET THEY GOONS OUT THAT HOUSE? (Engineer Mike, that's who!) WHO OUT THERE TALKIN ALL THAT MOUTH? (That's Nina.) With many apologies to Beyonce, this week they're reading Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke.
Digressions: Ghost tackling, Engineer Mike's para-social relationships, academic flexing, P…
Engineer Mike convinces Nina to read a book by an author your parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents all know. Will it swash her buckle, or walk her plank?
Digressions: Weeb shit, "suck my dick, America," confusing Larry McMurtry with Louis L'amour, more weeb shit, the broad umbrella of…
Timely! Engineer Mike and Nina talk about the book on which the hit Netflix show is based. It's a "whammer" of book, but how far did Nina get?
Digressions: throuples, teaching genital mutilation to our children, terrible Netflix movies, modern anti-intellectual parallels, Game of Thrones, are t…
In their most controversial episode yet, Engineer Mike and Nina debate the semantics of the word "chapter" with the book, Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge. Who is the author here, anyway?
Digressions: Grammy winning singers, early '90's SF/horror movies, Buffy, cyber paganism, SF going throug…
Is this the first time Nina's LOVED a book?
Digressions: Skarsgard (Mmm. Mmmhmmm), Scottish slang vs book slang, mouth breathing, the process of running a shady human farm, major body modifications, and Skarsgard (Mmm. Mmmhmm...).
Engineer Mike is reading: A Masterpiece in Disarray: David …
We're back with season two! Let's kick it off with a book by one of Engineer Mike's favorites. Do they have enough bandwidth to get through the first few chapters? TW: SA, animal abuse, and a spot on JP impression.
Digressions: Female protagonists being gross, Engineer Mike's primary source, t…
A very special episode! As part of self-promotion and a demonstration of why she and Engineer Mike are doing this podcast in the first place, Nina discusses her latest book, This is What You Wanted. Does she accomplish this, or is this just pretentious nonsense?
Nina and Engineer Mike put on their raincoats and invade a city somewhere in the former Soviet Block (they think) to solve a murder mystery. Can they get through the first chapter, or is this notorious author's prose too purple?
Digressions: The Idol (again), the steampunk lifestyle, compariso…
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