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Characters Behaving Badly

Characters Behaving Badly

FromMarlon and Jake Read Dead People


Characters Behaving Badly

FromMarlon and Jake Read Dead People

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Length:
55 minutes
Released:
Apr 11, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this episode, Marlon and Jake talk about the bad characters we’re not meant to like but do and the good characters we’re meant to like but annoy us. From Dracula to Daisy Buchanan to Oliver Twist and Bambi, the good-to-evil spectrum is vast and no character is safe from commentary. Tune in to find out which classic villain the duo unanimously hate, and which villain gives Marlon the chills and scares Jake to this day. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia HighsmithA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams The Flashman series by George MacDonald Fraser Tom Brown’s School Days by Thomas HughesKing Solomon’s Mines by Sir H. Rider Haggard Raiders of the Lost Arc by Campbell Black Dracula by Bram Stoker Frankenstein by Mary Shelly One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyEast of Eden by John Steinbeck The Awakening by Kate ChopinMadame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert House of Mirth by Edith Wharton Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky The Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Good Morning Midnight by Jean Rhys Bambi by Felix SaltenWatership Down by Richard Adams Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Middlemarch by George Eliot The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The Lord of the Flies by William Golding Railway Children by E. Nesbit Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie The Jungle Book by Rudyard KiplingTreasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Emma by Jane Austen Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 
Released:
Apr 11, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (35)

Marlon and Jake Read Dead People is a podcast hosted by the Man Booker Prize-winning and internationally bestselling author Marlon James and his editor, Jake Morrissey, Executive Editor at Riverhead Books. In each episode, Marlon and Jake talk about authors—specifically dead authors. Authors they like. Authors they hate. Great books, terrible books, and books they love that you’d never expect them to. As a writer and an editor, Marlon and Jake have read thousands of books between them, and they’re not shy in expressing their opinions about them. Sometimes they’ll agree, sometimes they won’t, but in every episode, they’ll tell you what they think— uncensored and with no holds barred. (That’s why the authors have to be dead.) So, listen along to hear about the spectacularly good, the hilariously bad, and the brutally honest.