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Characters Behaving Badly
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Length:
55 minutes
Released:
Apr 11, 2023
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Podcast episode
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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
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Epic Fantasy: This week Marlon and Jake venture into fantasy: the imagined worlds of dead writers—from quests and dragons to magic carpets and pregnant kings. As they dive into the works of the giants of traditional fantasy, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, they discuss the influence both writers had on Marlon's own fantasy epic, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, which was inspired by the epic traditions of Africa and writers like D.O. Fagunwa and Amos Tutuola. They debate how reading fantasy as a child differs from reading it as an adult, wonder why there aren't more female characters, and lament how fantasy is still mostly read by boys and men. From The Hobbit to Ursula K. Le Guin, the two have some very real takes on the make-believe. So tune in. Select titles mentioned in this episode: - The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle - The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis - The Bloody Chamber by by Marlon and Jake Read Dead People