Book #20 Announcement!
Added 2022-04-01 14:28:49 +0000 UTCIt's time to announce our twentieth book, and there's one question on everyone's mind: will anyone be forced into a tree? Also, Mike & Conor do another round of Calibrate Your Tastes.
It's time to start another crazy journey. We're excited about this one!
(Conor would like to state for the record that he realized about half an hour after recording this that his favorite poem is Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie. In fact, he probably listened to it at Dartmouth while watching the WinAmp visualizer on The Slap Trip)
Assignment: The first 3 chapters
Comments
I'm surprised they even found a way to abridge it. I feel like it's already written that way.
JoshG
2022-04-13 15:12:12 +0000 UTCI just realized I’ve been listening to the abridged audiobook. Thought it was unabridged. 😞
Paige Hackett
2022-04-04 20:44:43 +0000 UTCI also got the audiobook. Read by Will Patton. Half an hour in and I want to gouge my ears out.
Paige Hackett
2022-04-03 23:10:23 +0000 UTCJust picked this up from the library, I was _immensely_ relieved to see how thin it was, as opposed to being some sort of Modelland-style brick.
Balaji S
2022-04-03 21:44:15 +0000 UTCSame here! A few years ago, I put a whole uni in my mouth and had the same reaction as Bridget .. barf! It was a nice restaurant in Atlanta & everything else was delicious, so i assumed i just don't like uni anymore (I've had it a couple of times before & it was ok). Not sure I'm going to give it another chance .. plenty of yummy sushi available!
Elizabeth Meredith
2022-04-03 00:19:54 +0000 UTCSame here! 😂
Elizabeth Meredith
2022-04-03 00:16:16 +0000 UTCIf you Google it, it's possible to find a downloadable PDF .. wink wink And you don't even have to go to the dark web!
Elizabeth Meredith
2022-04-03 00:15:47 +0000 UTCI had a similar reaction. I'm like, "Oh, yeah. Hey, they're sure talking a lot about this Gump book. I wonder when they're gonna ann—oh, no..."
Moviegique
2022-04-02 23:09:22 +0000 UTCI enjoyed Forrest Gump when I finally saw it, although I have no particularly *strong* feeling about it, and I totally understand the view of it as emotionally manipulative Oscar bait. So said, my strongest association is actually a clip from Joel-era MST3K host segment where Tom Servo just goes OFF about his loathing of Forrest Gump. Good to know what as pure Kevin.
Chaos Shadow
2022-04-02 21:46:42 +0000 UTCThe book that is, she read the article…
Stephen Kadwell
2022-04-02 16:51:54 +0000 UTCMy wife got really excited when you reached the reveal as she had seen this article about the book some years earlier though never read it. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/literary-sequels-never-knew-existed/
Stephen Kadwell
2022-04-02 16:51:22 +0000 UTCFor the first time, a book I've actually read. It was when it was pretty new, so details are very fuzzy. I remember a lot of discontinuities coming from only having seen the movie before reading it, though. Maybe this time I'll swing back and check out the first book before catching up.
JoshuaJSlone
2022-04-02 14:46:26 +0000 UTCMy husband and I tried uni a few years ago at our neighborhood sushi joint which is normally very good—we found it disgusting and hated it. But the discussion on this episode makes me wonder if what we had was perhaps just “bad” uni (we are in Indiana, after all) and that perhaps we need to try it again elsewhere…?
Jenny S
2022-04-02 13:58:17 +0000 UTCJust to be clear. Uni is the gonads. You are eating the gonads.
Grape Faperson
2022-04-02 11:21:28 +0000 UTCFor me, "Benjamin Button" is basically the bad sequel to "Forrest Gump".
There was a clever name here. It's gone now.
2022-04-02 06:04:51 +0000 UTCThat was the most offhanded announcement I’ve ever heard. Five minutes after Conor named it, I went “… Oh, wait, that’s actually the new book?’ 😀 Or it could just be that it’s the end of a long week and I’m not completely with it. 😊
Gina Dalfonzo
2022-04-02 00:51:17 +0000 UTCI've had people get angry with me for having never seen E.T.
Erin M
2022-04-01 23:00:31 +0000 UTCWait a minute......I think you're right! Though a better joke would have been the sequel to Bob Honey.
Emily Brown
2022-04-01 22:58:12 +0000 UTCIs there not an e-book? Weaaak, Winston Groom.
Erin M
2022-04-01 22:53:06 +0000 UTCYou are super lucky. I was forced to watch it a couple times (first time while sick in the living room at my aunt's) and every time I hate the film more
Bleachedblackcat
2022-04-01 21:30:59 +0000 UTCI've never watched Forrest Gump either ... by choice, because everyone was going apeshit over it, and i tend to run the opposite direction from the hype train. But several years ago, i was on a private bus where they put that movie on. I had to make a choice whether to give in and watch it, or stick my fingers in my ears and repeat "lalalalala" for two hours. I did neither. I fell asleep. 🤣 Another movie I've never watched & have received screams of derision about: Bambi. Just never got around to it, but now it's kinda a "thing" for me, lol.
Elizabeth Meredith
2022-04-01 21:01:00 +0000 UTCI remember reading something about a scene in which (no joke) Forrest winds up hiding in the back seat of O. J. Simpson’s white bronco during the infamous chase. Don’t know if that’s in the book or just an invention for the would-be movie but I’m dying to find out!
Taylor Conner
2022-04-01 20:21:30 +0000 UTCConor's choice of The Monitor absolutely captures at least the music side of his taste. (And "A More Perfect Union" is low-key a top 25ish indie rock song, post-2000.)
BLUE SULLIVAN
2022-04-01 20:11:06 +0000 UTCI read FG as part of my childhood adventures through the yellowing paperbacks in the basement. This is why, as a naive, sheltered, and late-maturing child, I was the only kid in my class who knew why it was hilarious that a neighboring school’s mascot was a beaver.
Elizabeth
2022-04-01 19:40:01 +0000 UTCCan I nominate the book The Room was based on for next project?? Source: Dominic Noble’s YouTube channel https://youtu.be/YqW2GUhTaFo (Yes, April Fool’s Day….)
Jennifer Tomich
2022-04-01 19:37:05 +0000 UTC"the sort of book that i'd throw in my bag for Grandmas house" Please Connor, we call that a Winter Stack around these parts.
Thomas Shaw
2022-04-01 19:19:22 +0000 UTCI’m super pumped that my local library actually has this, LOL.
Jenny S
2022-04-01 19:11:41 +0000 UTCHoly cow, it just occurred to me that "Forrest Gump" is "Ready Player One" for Boomers. It's seriously just a "remember THIS" list of pop culture events, around a dissolute and kinda skeevy plot.
Moviegique
2022-04-01 18:00:23 +0000 UTCSeriously, though, Mike is enjoying NOT having seen "Forrest Gump" 100 times more than he will by seeing it. It is like eating uni that is slightly off.
Moviegique
2022-04-01 17:45:51 +0000 UTCTom Hanks did, of course, do some work after Bosom Buddies. None of us will forget his stunning turn in "He Knows You're Alone" as Elliot, the jogger who gets decapitated, and "Robbie", his moving portrait of a tortured soul driven mad through his involvement with role playing games in "Mazes and Mosters".
Moviegique
2022-04-01 17:45:00 +0000 UTCOh, this book is NOT gonna motivate Mike to watch FG. You should do a quiz or something where a losing % gets him the punishment of having to do so. 🥉
Dawn Godfrey
2022-04-01 17:07:36 +0000 UTCI need to look into this further but I feel like I've heard that the author was very angry about how little money he ended up getting when the movie was a huge success so he made the sequel almost un-filmably bad to sabotage any future films. This may be totally mixed up in my brain. I'm looking forward to the book!
Brian Johnson
2022-04-01 16:08:18 +0000 UTCI’d like to share my appreciation for Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie. It’s a beautiful poem by one of the world’s greatest poets. I haven’t listened to it for awhile so thank you for posting the link!
Mandie Cornelius
2022-04-01 16:05:33 +0000 UTCNow we know why Servo wanted that feather in Jack Frost to stab Forrest Gump in the eyes and kill him, lol.
Jesse Shade
2022-04-01 15:39:27 +0000 UTCDelightful, i can't wait to read a bitter eight page poem about Bill Clinton's McDonald's habit.
Jesse Shade
2022-04-01 15:37:21 +0000 UTCFun fact for you, Zemeckis and Hanks were *thisclose* to making Gump & Co a movie, but then 9/11 sorta happened. I remember reading part of it as a kid who loved the first movie, and all I remember is how bitter it was, as if Winston Groom was pissed that the movie took so many liberties with his precious vision. I do remember Kevin's lifelong hatred of the original movie from his hilarious rant about it in his book, so I'm sure this is gonna be a blast.
Jesse Shade
2022-04-01 15:36:26 +0000 UTCI kept waiting for the … April Fools!
Andie Etchison
2022-04-01 15:30:08 +0000 UTCOh thanks for pointing that out haha. Now I'll know if they get hung up on something I don't remember happening.
Ian Gibson
2022-04-01 15:24:16 +0000 UTCJust a warning, that audiobook is an abridged version, but then again, maybe that's fortunate.
Jesse Shade
2022-04-01 15:22:05 +0000 UTCDon't normally read along due to my vision impairment, but unfortunately I found the book on audible. Let's hope my headphones survive the experience.
Ian Gibson
2022-04-01 15:14:09 +0000 UTCFor the record, hated FG. Sort of a mile stone for the dumbing down of the U.S. “Now feel this” kind of movie.
Mike Suhr
2022-04-01 15:11:45 +0000 UTCoooo thank u thank u ^-^
amolove
2022-04-01 14:55:23 +0000 UTCWe didn't post one yet, we'll get it up soon
372 Pages We'll Never Get Back
2022-04-01 14:53:57 +0000 UTCwhat's the reading assignment (im tired so i coulda missed it?)
amolove
2022-04-01 14:49:27 +0000 UTCI love that Kevin and Mary Jo hate this book!
Kelly Long
2022-04-01 14:47:49 +0000 UTCThe new book announcement always has major Christmas morning vibes. I'm really hoping there's a Lexus wrapped in a big red bow out in the driveway. But it's probably homemade oven mitts or slipper socks, and that's okay, too.
Manda Newlin
2022-04-01 14:47:34 +0000 UTCI actually read this one last year & it's completely awful. Bob Honey manifesto vibes & there's a nod back to Antiqua that I won't spoil for people.
A.T.
2022-04-01 14:40:14 +0000 UTC
