April 7, 2025

051 - What I've Been Reading - April 2025

051 - What I've Been Reading - April 2025
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Season 2

The Books I've been reading plus more exciting news on the new podcast, Short Bites: A Stephen King Podcast

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Hello, and welcome to episode thirty one fifty one. I'm

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Jason White, and this is Weird Reads and Jason's Reid Reads,

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and today I am going to do from the hip

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style recent reads. And if you don't know what recent

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or if you don't know what recent reads are, if

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you don't know what from the hips are, it's where

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I talk about just a little bit of my own life,

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what's going on generally pertaining to the show, and you know,

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what's going on behind the scenes kind of thing. And

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then I talk about the books I'm reading right now

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and what I am reading or what I have read,

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and then and then that's it basically. As you can tell,

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I'm having trouble speaking today, so we might be in

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for some editing, all right. So in March, we're pretty

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busy here, and that's why you haven't seen any videos

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on the YouTube channel. There's a lot of busy weekends

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because I've been doing a lot of overtime at work

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and I've been doing a lot of work on my

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writing and my podcasts. I had a zombie novel that

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I wrote way back in twenty thirteen, and it was

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published in twenty and fifteen, and then that publisher went

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belly up, and I decided to get it professionally edited,

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which costs a good chunk of change, And I've been

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working on those edits again, and so I'm hoping to

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release that by the end of this year, so stay

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tuned for that.

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I've been working hard on that.

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It's really slow going, like sometimes you can only do

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a couple of pages a day, and it's the book

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itself is like two hundred and fourteen or fifteen pages long.

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So that'll be interesting.

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See you know, if I guess, you're just gonna have

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to wait to see when that's gonna happen. And also,

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I think I mentioned this last time, but I finished

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a novella and it's about twenty twenty nine thousand words

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long and I'm letting it sit now while I work

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on the edits for the novel. And that's I'm pretty

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happy that I was able to finish a longer piece

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of fiction because I haven't been able to do that

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in a very, very long time. So what's going on

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with the podcasts? Well, this one's been running pretty regular.

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I haven't had to take too many breaks like I

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thought I would, but I've been working a lot on

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Short Bites, a Stephen King podcast where we talk about

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short stories Stephen King short Stories, and you can look

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for that. I finally have a release date for that

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that you're gonna you're gonna find that on April the

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twentieth on the new YouTube channel Short Bites, the Stephen

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King Podcast and the new podcast itself under the same name,

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so that I think that's fantastic. I'm very happy about that.

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So it's what I have actually about four I think four,

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uh maybe even five episodes in the can for Short Bites.

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I just wanted to collect them. I've been working on them,

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I think since February, and I've been wanting to work

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on them to you know, just get them, to get

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you know, like a little ahead. And I've had some

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amazing guests so far. Some of the guests I've had

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were my old friend Michael Schutz. I used to co

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host the nest Well's podcast with me way back. It's

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I've been like six or seven years now, which is

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weird to think.

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But he's an author.

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I've talked about his books before, like Plank Children. I

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highly recommend that I've talked to from our own you

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from YouTube. Jen from Literary Love one, two three. She's

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gonna appear on the show Sin from Sin's Booknook and

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so far author's Nicholas Kaufman and and Jonathan Jans. Yes,

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Jonathan Jans, you heard me right, He's he's on an

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episode there too. You might be able to guess which one.

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In regards to a certain anthology that's coming out. I

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thought it would be an interesting idea to ask him

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if he would be willing to come on and talk

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about that short story because he's in this anthology that's

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coming out that's a dedication to Stephen King. I think

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I just gave it a way there, But stay tuned.

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So I have a lot of other really cool guests

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of people you've seen on the Weird Reads podcast here

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before and people that you haven't, So stay tuned for that.

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It's going to be a lot of fun, and so

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far it has been a lot of fun. I'm learning

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a lot about Stephen King's short story or short stories

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and writing, and I've been having a blast, honestly all right.

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So on the book club for April, I missed like March,

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and I think February too, but we're we're in April now,

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can you believe that. For April, the Jason's Weird Reads

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book Club is reading Trader's Cord by Scott Leeds. Now,

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this is only April the seventh, and I haven't been

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able to start it yet because I'm busy, as you're

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going to see, I'm busy reading books. And how about

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we get into what I'm reading right now, because I'm

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reading four books and one of them is like nine

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hundred to two thousand pages somewhere, and it's slowing me down.

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But I'm really enjoying it because he's an old author,

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an old favorite. Actually he is old, actually he is

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like in his eighties. But that book that itself is

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The Last Chairlift by John Irving. I used to read

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John Irving all the time, way back in the oughts

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in the two thousands. From two thousand to twenty ten,

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I read almost not exclusively, but you know, I caught

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up to where John Irving had written everything up until

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that point.

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He was and is my favorite, one of my favorite writers.

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And so I decided to dive into his latest The

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Last Chairlift, which is another big, thick book by John Irving,

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and I can't stop reading it. I thought I would

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stop when certain other books came to the table that

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I had to read and I just couldn't stop reading it.

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But it's really taking a while.

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I think i've been reading it since the beginning of

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March and I'm getting close to halfway through.

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But like I said, it's about nine hundred pages.

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But I'm reading a bunch of other books in the meantime,

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so I'm not always reading it. I'm also reading Daddy's

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Boy by Michael David Wilson. Because Michael, if you might remember,

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he was on the show last year in April. He's

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the host of This Is Horror podcast and he's also

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an author, and we talked mostly about his books, and

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we're going to be talking again, probably about his podcast

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and Daddy's Boy, which is coming out in May, I believe,

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so stay tuned for that. That's coming up real soon.

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And I'm in really enjoying Daddy's Boy.

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It I Michael David Wilson is a writer of mine.

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I think I'm always going to read what he puts

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out because he has a very distinct voice, and I

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think that's what I'm addicted to when it comes to

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his writing. He's got like a certain quirkiness to his stories.

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You have to read him in order to find out,

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and I highly recommend.

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Reading Daddy's Boy.

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I believe there may be pre orders available for that now,

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so definitely check that out. I'm also currently reading Janitors

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Versus the Living Dead by Michelle Garza and Melissa Layson.

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I remember when they were talking about this book on

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Facebook and I just when they did their cover reveal,

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and I was like, that cover is awesome and I

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absolutely love just what the title suggests. And so I

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went and pre ordered the book, and as usual when

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you pre order books, you kind of forget that you

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did that, and so I got this mysterious package in

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the mail and I was like, what's this.

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I didn't order a book. And then I opened it

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up and I was like, oh, yeah, I pre ordered that,

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didn't I. So that's awesome. I'm so glad, and I'm about.

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Twenty five percent of the way through right now, and

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it's so far a lot of fun.

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I love the.

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Custodian crew they work in Like this, it's like a

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subdivision for rich people that all these people live near.

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Actually within this subdivision, it's not really called a subdivision,

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but I'm calling it a subdivision. It's like a rich

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area and there's a golf course attached to it, and

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they work on that golf course, but they also go around.

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And clean people's houses, and.

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So they clean the golf course itself and people's houses,

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and they're just a hoot.

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You know. It's like I know these people.

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So I'm also obviously continuing on with night Shift. I

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find that it doesn't take as much time as I

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thought it would. I thought it was going to completely

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take up all my time reading these short stories.

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It doesn't.

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I've been reading one per like in preparation for an episode,

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and I listened to it if I can, because night

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Shift isn't an audiobook. Only certain stories are part of that.

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So it's actually I forget what it's called. Let me

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look it up here quickly, because there is an audio

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book you can get. I think it's like, I have

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it on my phone here. It's called it is called

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Graveyard Shift, which is interesting. Graveyard Shift by Stephen King,

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and there's only about seven of the stories in there,

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so you know, anyways, I'm getting ahead of myself here.

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I've been reading those books and or those short stories,

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and what I do is if I can listen to them.

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I'll listen to them over and over again, and then

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I'll read them, and I take a lot of notes,

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like here's my physical copy, like there's a lot of

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tabs there, and and I do that to sort of

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get even more familiar with the story, to get familiar

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with the writing, and to come up with questions and whatnot.

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And so it's been fun. I've never done this before.

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I've never like read to this extent before, and I'm

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kind of having a lot of fun with it. It's

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quite the interesting project.

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All right. So what have I been reading? Like I had?

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I have to catch up here. That's why this episode

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is here. I'm going to try to keep these fairly

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my descriptions of them short, because I don't know how

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many books. I think there's like thirteen books here that

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I write in about a month and a half time.

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So the first up, I remember, remember when I was

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talking about me being grumpy in regard to my reading

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in that well, I decided to and I think I

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mentioned this in the last Recent Reads episode. I switched

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to Parannesse. I didn't switch. I just started reading because

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I wanted one of those books that everyone seems to

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love in order to, you know, stop what could have

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been a reading slump. I didn't want to go into

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a reading slump, so I started reading Parenthessey and that

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was a good choice. Parentes by Sanne Susannah Clark, I

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should mention also is a really great book. It starts

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off as kind of like, you have no idea what's

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going on. There's this this guy who lives in this

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giant house. I mean it's a giant house where there's

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all these statues and there's three floors to this house

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and the bottom floor keeps flooding out by the ocean.

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And he's this guy.

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He doesn't know who he is or what he's doing.

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For all he knows he's been there forever, and he's

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going through all the statues in this house and he's

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like making notes on them and he's taking care of

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them all. And then I'm not going to spoil it,

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but something happens and he starts remembering things.

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It's a really good story.

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It really wrapped me up and and and did exactly

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what I needed it too. So Paranesi by Susanna Clark

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is a really good book. If you haven't read it,

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I highly recommend it. Next up is Another book I

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highly recommend by another favorite author of mine, and that's

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Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix. This book, this

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book is it's typical Grady Hendrix, which is a good thing.

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Grady Hendrix is known for this type of you know,

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a female protagonist. These women are typically stronger than what

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maybe a lot of fiction would portray women as.

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But this story is about a young girl who.

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Who's being is I think the late sixties, early seventies.

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She's being sent to a place where, you know, she

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gets pregnant. She's sixteen and she's pregnant, and so they

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send her to this place where she can have her

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child and they'll take that child when she has it

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happened to her and to her friends that are just wrong.

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don't do it anymore. You never know it could come

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back because of the you know, the way things are

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in the world. But they're not treated well, they're not

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treated as though they're human. You know, they're blamed for

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their situation, not the men who got them in that.

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them some witchcraft, and that that really that really changes

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things for them and for the better. It's I guess

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it's kind of like a good for her type book.

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the Last Recent Reads episode, I said I was going

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to read like maybe twenty pages a day or something

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like that, and I've decided to put that on hold

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The Gun Slinger is just awesome. I don't know why

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people would want to skip it, and I don't know

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why people don't like it. It's a different style for

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Stephen King, for sure, but it's still it's it's worthy, man,

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people some people like to skip prologs, but I don't

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get that.

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It's like, do they just not like reading?

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They just want to get to the good stuff, and

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that's it, because this is good stuff. There's important stuff

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The rest of the series. That that's I'll.

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first by any means. But I think it's important and

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I enjoyed reading it, and that's saying something, saying it

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would come in last, and I still love it so

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I think I have an.

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Order now finally, although I still have to read When

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Through the Keyhole. Stay tuned for that, I imagine Sin

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they've been reprinting a.

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on a podcast recently saying that he would never do

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a Lovecraftian type story, but this is like a love

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Crafty and type story for him. It's not cosmic horror,

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I would say, necessarily, but it kind of is. But

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it kind of reminds me of his meteorite story, Stephen

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King's meteorite story Color out of Space, because similar thing happens.

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Meteorite lands in the farmers field and it pretty much

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changes everything. But it's completely different and from Lovecraft's story.

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Stephen Graham Jones forgot about when he said that, because

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I also read at Dark I've Become Loathsome by Eric Laraka.

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This book, this book is dark Man, and it really

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rocked my world.

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Honestly, it changed a lot of things for me.

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Because I was going through that grumpy period where the

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state of the world was looking bleak and only looking bleaker.

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buries people alive. They pay him to do this, and

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it goes into some dark territories. Might understand now you

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got you're probably wondering how who would pay for that?

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Right? I mean?

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The point is like, you're only buried for a short

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period of time, and usually you're at the end of

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your rope when you request.

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This type of of thing.

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because you're you're maybe ready to end things and and

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you want one last, one last chance at saving yourself.

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certain amount of money, and he'll bury you for to say,

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fifteen minutes, and then he'll dig you back up. This

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is actually something that happens in I think Thailand or somewhere.

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There's like services like this.

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I don't know, I didn't look into it, but but yeah,

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and he's he's been through it. Man, he's got some issues,

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and a certain client comes to him and it kind

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of changes him for perhaps the worst. It's very beautiful

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in a very dark sense. It's it's perhaps one of

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the darkest stories I've read in a long time.

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And it's very serious, not too.

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Much not too much comedy in this and but you know,

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look out for the end of the year that's probably

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be This is probably gonna be one of them there,

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one of the top ten. If unless I do another

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Top twenty, I don't know, but this one blew me away.

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Highly recommend it.

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And because I was so impressed by that, I went

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and read Eric Loraca's This Skin Was Once Mine. This

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is like a collection of four novellas, or maybe one

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of them is a short story, but the other three

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are novella length. I can't remember, but these were all

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so very impressive as well. I think there was only

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one in there that I didn't really like, but the

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other three like really blew me away. One of the stories,

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in a in an adjacent sort of way, reminded me of.

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The Swords by Robert Aikman.

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If you haven't read that story, I highly recommend you

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go read that story, but also read this collection. The

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Skin was One's Mind. It's it's fabulous in a very

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dark way. Excuse me, all right, So I also read

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Victorian Psycho because I did that little and this is

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where it started. I decided to do like a reading

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project where I would read American Psycho and then read

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some of the books that were maybe sort of influenced

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by it. One of them definitely is, and the other

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one is that one is the first one, American Psycho

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by Brett Easton, American Psycho goddamn is Victorian Psycho by

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Virginia Fato. I don't know if I pronounced that right,

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but this book is a lot of fun and you

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can kind of see maybe how it was perhaps influenced

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by American Psycho. But this book is very different. It

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takes place in Victorian times, and it's about a woman

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who gets like a nursing job in a house for

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rich people, of course, and she has like these weird

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psychotic tendencies. And this book gets very gory and very violent.

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It's kind of funny in a very dark, twisted way.

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If you haven't read it, I highly recommend it. If

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you just want something that's gory and fun and nasty

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in that way, definitely give it a checkout. I think

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you'll enjoy it. But then I read American Psycho by

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Brett Easton Ellis and this book is completely different. It's

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more of a satire and maybe a Victorian Psycho is

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a bit of a satire on the climes as well,

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but this one is, like you can see it, like,

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the first quarter of American Psycho is all about fashion

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and what these people on Wall Street are wearing, and

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how they treat each other, and how they treat their

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women because it's mostly a male cast, except for the

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women of course, who surround them, like their girlfriends or

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just the people they're having sex with.

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And the drugs.

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lot of cocaine. And music reviews. Yes, there's music reviews.

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But as I was saying, the first quarter is all

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about the fashion. If you don't know any fashionable names

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of the late eighties, you're going to learn them here

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and to a deep extent. Let me tell you, I

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think there's a lot of people who got lost in

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that and maybe gave up reading American Psycho because or like,

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what the this?

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I don't get it?

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But you know, slowly but surely, the real Patrick Bateman,

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our main character here, slowly reveals himself and by the

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end you don't know if he did everything that he

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claims to in this book.

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I have my theory.

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I think he did do some of it maybe, but

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I think most of it was just in his head. Anyways,

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that's up for discussion, which I guess this isn't really

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necessarily about. American Psycho is hard to read for several reasons.

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And it's weird that I loved it so much because

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it gets hard to read because of the things he

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does to certain people. There's a lot of human butchery

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going on here, and a lot of you know, nonchalance

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about it, like something we just do or I just

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do typically on you know, it's just another Tuesday morning

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type thing. And then there's the fashion aspect, which I've

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never been a fashion person, and so learning about all

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the fashion stuff and what to wear in business situations

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just like, you know, can we move on? But in

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a sense I found myself interested. Anyway, it's just Brett

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Easton Ellis's voice. He sort of makes it interesting even

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if it's not interesting to you and so. And also

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this is like a deep like it's not I don't

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think it's just written for.

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Shits and giggles.

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I think there's an aspect an important aspect to this,

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and it's a look at the way we are.

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We focus, we hyper focus.

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On things that aren't important, and I think that the

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point of this book is that can lead to some

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serious problems. And maybe maybe this whole book is about

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being beauty is only skinned deep?

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I don't know. And then I read may Fly by C. J. Lead.

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This book was also really good.

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This this book takes a female protagonist who's kind of

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like Patrick Bateman, who works in a popular American theme

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park that which could or could not or might or

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might not be Disney. Pretty sure it probably is Disney,

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but it's never mentioned, probably for some good legal reasons.

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And you just follow me.

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You know. With with Patrick Bateman is you didn't like him, he.

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Was a despicable person.

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He kind of enjoyed following him because he's interesting, but

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you wouldn't like him in real life. But I found

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myself really liking Mayve. And that's weird because she's she's

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just a psycho. I don't I don't understand the contrast.

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But as I said, she works in this popular theme

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park and you can only imagine what that's like and

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where this story is gonna go I'm gonna leave it

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at that because I don't want to spoil anything. Mayfly

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is a per short compared to American Psycho. Okay, so

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I read another kind of psychotic book for this was

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for I think March's Jason's we had Read's book club

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and we read The Lamb by Lucy Rose.

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Now this book.

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If you haven't read this book, I highly suggest you

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go to Amazon or wherever you get your ebooks and

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just download a sample. The first paragraph, the first sentence

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about the six fingers that this kid dug out of

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a dug out of a shower drain.

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Yeah, that pretty much sets the tone for the story.

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So it's about a mother and a daughter who live

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and they take in strays like stray human beings, and

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they become well, they become the next meal. These people

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they like to eat people.

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So it's total cannibalism. And we go into some depth

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here with like recipes. This book it goes there. Yeah.

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So The Lamb by Lucy Rose another really great read.

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I really enjoyed it, highly recommended.

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This book goes into some weird territory and I'm not

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too sure if I agreed with the ending.

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The ending was kind of Weird for me.

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Honestly, I can't say I enjoyed the ending, but it

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wasn't like it was a terrible ending. It was an

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interesting ending. I just don't know if I completely agree

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with what happened there. If you've read all of the lamb,

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let me know in the comments. If you're watching the video,

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let me know what you thought, or email me at

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Weird Weird Reads Pod at gmail dot com. The email

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is in the show notes, all right. I also read

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a Man after all those disturbing books, did a palate cleanser.

476
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So I went searching for another book that everyone seems

477
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to love, and I landed on Frederick Bachmann. It was

478
00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:08.960
only a matter of choice which one I was going

479
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to choose, so I decided to go by a man

480
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called Ov.

481
00:29:14.640 --> 00:29:16.960
I think is how you pronounce it? Ova? Ova?

482
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That's it, a man called Ova.

483
00:29:21.079 --> 00:29:23.000
This book was a lot darker.

484
00:29:22.759 --> 00:29:24.640
Than I thought it would be, so it wasn't exactly

485
00:29:24.680 --> 00:29:27.359
a palate cleanser. I don't know if I should really

486
00:29:27.400 --> 00:29:31.160
go into too much of the details because it might spoil.

487
00:29:31.200 --> 00:29:33.359
I went in completely blind, just about a grumpy old

488
00:29:33.359 --> 00:29:37.240
man basically who recently lost his wife, and so this

489
00:29:37.279 --> 00:29:39.960
book might tug at your tear ducks a little bit,

490
00:29:41.359 --> 00:29:47.400
but it's also tragic for other reasons. This old ov

491
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Ova he's not happy, and that's a parent from the beginning,

492
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but he has a good heart and he keeps doing

493
00:29:56.400 --> 00:30:01.079
things that he grumpily, grumpily does. He doesn't want to

494
00:30:01.079 --> 00:30:03.079
do it, but he ends up helping people out a lot,

495
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and it stops him from doing certain things. And those

496
00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:09.079
certain things are maybe in the.

497
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Trigger warnings here.

498
00:30:10.279 --> 00:30:14.400
This book really deals with suicidal ideation and whatnot, So

499
00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:17.839
if you're triggered by that, maybe skip this book. But

500
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I didn't find it all that bad myself. And that's

501
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where like there's like a sort of comedic edge to

502
00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:29.440
all that. And because he every time he goes to

503
00:30:31.440 --> 00:30:35.839
end himself something funny, not really funny, but the situation

504
00:30:35.920 --> 00:30:39.920
itself stops him from doing it. That turns kind of comedic.

505
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And I'm gonna leave it at that. It's a good story,

506
00:30:43.319 --> 00:30:48.599
good heartfelt but dark kind of story, and it's kind

507
00:30:48.599 --> 00:30:51.559
of unique just for that alone. And then to end

508
00:30:51.720 --> 00:30:54.759
this round, I read three but I'm gonna save one

509
00:30:54.799 --> 00:30:58.960
of those for the next recent reads. But I read

510
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a couple of Jonathan few Jonathan Jan's books. If you remember,

511
00:31:03.759 --> 00:31:05.880
earlier in the year, I read Children of the Dark

512
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by Jonathan Jance.

513
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Well.

514
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I decided to since I was going to have them

515
00:31:10.279 --> 00:31:12.799
on my show for the Stephen King.

516
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Short bites.

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I thought I'd read the sequel, which is The Night Fliers,

518
00:31:18.839 --> 00:31:22.160
And this book pretty much continues a year later from

519
00:31:22.279 --> 00:31:27.000
where Children Are the Dark Ends and these creatures, man,

520
00:31:27.119 --> 00:31:28.720
they make a comeback, and do they ever?

521
00:31:28.799 --> 00:31:30.319
My god, this book is full of action.

522
00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:33.440
I think I want to say it's more action than

523
00:31:33.480 --> 00:31:35.680
the first one, but I'm not too sure if that

524
00:31:35.920 --> 00:31:36.680
would be accurate.

525
00:31:36.720 --> 00:31:38.119
But man, this book is fun.

526
00:31:39.119 --> 00:31:41.640
I don't think he going to these books by Jonathan

527
00:31:41.759 --> 00:31:43.079
Chance for anything too deep.

528
00:31:43.960 --> 00:31:46.079
The characters are always really well drawn out.

529
00:31:46.200 --> 00:31:49.559
I love that, like the characterations here are just like

530
00:31:49.799 --> 00:31:53.440
they're great, and the action is like top notch. Man,

531
00:31:53.480 --> 00:31:56.279
if you want like an adrenaline rush man, go to

532
00:31:56.400 --> 00:32:00.720
Jonathan Jans and his Children of the Dark series. And

533
00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:06.079
because the creatures are similar, I decided to check out

534
00:32:06.160 --> 00:32:09.799
Savage Species by Jonathan Chance. They're not just similar, it's

535
00:32:09.799 --> 00:32:13.799
all in the same world. And this one is another

536
00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:20.359
like adrenaline pumping crazy ride that goes through those caves

537
00:32:20.400 --> 00:32:22.519
that that are in Children of the Dark a lot

538
00:32:23.559 --> 00:32:26.480
because the story involves a young child who goes missing

539
00:32:26.519 --> 00:32:28.240
and so they, you know, of course, a bunch of

540
00:32:28.240 --> 00:32:31.119
people go searching for the child and that's when they

541
00:32:31.200 --> 00:32:32.440
run into these creatures.

542
00:32:32.599 --> 00:32:35.759
And it's not good. It's not good at all. A

543
00:32:35.799 --> 00:32:38.000
lot of people, a lot of people get it.

544
00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:41.640
It's insane. And you know, talking to Jonathan Chance, he's

545
00:32:41.680 --> 00:32:46.880
such a really cool, nice guy, but he's brutal in

546
00:32:46.920 --> 00:32:49.759
these books. My God, do not attach yourself to any

547
00:32:49.799 --> 00:32:53.359
of the characters. That's that's that's my trigger warning for this.

548
00:32:55.240 --> 00:32:57.200
You might want to check out other trigger warnings too,

549
00:32:57.200 --> 00:32:59.680
because like this, these books go there. They're they're dark

550
00:33:00.839 --> 00:33:03.480
in a fun way, but they're very gory. If gore

551
00:33:03.599 --> 00:33:05.480
turns you off, then you might want to skip this.

552
00:33:05.559 --> 00:33:06.400
But I don't know.

553
00:33:06.440 --> 00:33:10.680
I love reading fun gory books. That's just what they are,

554
00:33:11.279 --> 00:33:13.400
all right. So that's all I have for this episode

555
00:33:13.559 --> 00:33:19.400
of Recent Reads. So stay tuned for April the twentieth,

556
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because that's when Short Bites is.

557
00:33:22.359 --> 00:33:23.759
Going to premiere.

558
00:33:25.119 --> 00:33:27.079
And it's been a long time in the running. I

559
00:33:27.440 --> 00:33:29.960
remember when I reached out to some of the people

560
00:33:30.119 --> 00:33:33.400
to be guests on the show. I was like, yeah,

561
00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:35.599
I'm going to get a hold of you again in January.

562
00:33:35.880 --> 00:33:38.480
It's like at the end of it was in December

563
00:33:38.519 --> 00:33:44.240
of twenty twenty four, and for some reason in my mind,

564
00:33:44.279 --> 00:33:47.039
I just thought it was all going to happen at once.

565
00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:50.559
I don't know why. I thought that. It's been kind

566
00:33:50.559 --> 00:33:53.440
of going slowly, and I think that's it's not really

567
00:33:53.480 --> 00:33:58.640
actually slow. It just feels slow because when I finally

568
00:33:58.839 --> 00:34:03.079
finalized everything that I wanted to do for this new podcast,

569
00:34:04.640 --> 00:34:06.880
it was just all there in my mind and it

570
00:34:06.960 --> 00:34:08.199
was like I was going to be able to do

571
00:34:08.239 --> 00:34:09.519
it all right away.

572
00:34:09.679 --> 00:34:12.000
Right. Well, that's not the case.

573
00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:15.519
So anyways, April twentieth, wherever you get, wherever you download

574
00:34:15.559 --> 00:34:16.280
your podcasts.

575
00:34:16.840 --> 00:34:17.480
I will be.

576
00:34:17.519 --> 00:34:20.719
Doing more videos here in regards to that soon and

577
00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:26.679
also on the new channel and podcast obviously, So just

578
00:34:26.880 --> 00:34:30.519
stay tuned for that on April the twentieth, And as

579
00:34:30.960 --> 00:34:33.760
for everything else, Yeah, I hope you're all having a

580
00:34:33.800 --> 00:34:37.719
great time. Please leave a message in the comments if

581
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you're on the YouTube channel, and thank you for being

582
00:34:42.760 --> 00:34:47.400
here and being patient with me. Keep being safe, keep

583
00:34:47.599 --> 00:34:52.679
being weird, because being weird is important, especially in today's world,

584
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and I will catch you guys next time.