Midnight Sun Ep 1 - The Comedy Stylings of Emmett
Added 2020-08-18 19:40:38 +0000 UTCSo many words, so many of them "monster"!
A jam-packed episode:
- Conor sails through several Sonic Challenges
- Mike, ahem, sails through Real or Fanfic
- Our listeners mail in and we steal it
- Believe it or not there are plenty of Dumb Sentences.
- There are GOFFS! (get it?)
For next time read through Chapter 9: Hey, we gotta get through this people.
Comments
I've dealt with the same thing talking to people who read Orson Scott Card novels, people act like we're a mysterious ancient civilization and they have to glean what little they can about our beliefs from our few surviving written works.
Theodore Lehman
2020-08-30 15:07:28 +0000 UTCSo far, I hate this book a lot less than Shadow Moon, just because there are no brownies, and less than Ready Player One because I don’t have to deal with Cline’s obsession with nostalgia. Oh, and less than Bob Honey because there is no headache inducing alliteration . Don’t get me wrong, the book is lousy, but I’m actually following it, and haven’t chucked. It across the room. Yet.
Justin Cicconi
2020-08-29 22:29:13 +0000 UTCTotally. It seems like she was trying to have her cake and eat it too. The Twilight series is unfortunately full of a lot of stupid behavior to model for teens about relationships.
PaperPennies
2020-08-27 20:10:39 +0000 UTCI agree that Meyer's handing of her supposed themes is very VERY clumsy. For instance, she gives a ton of lip service to chastity. And then has Edward sleep in Bella's bed every night. Err, okay, so they didn't actually have sex, but maybe we are missing the intent of the whole chastity idea just a little bit? Also, if you don't want to promote premarital sex, having your characters spend all night in bed together seems like very stupid behavior to model to your teen readers.
Augusta Vae
2020-08-27 19:48:48 +0000 UTCJust to mention about the "Mormon themes" thing, I've been a member of the church my whole life, I read the Twilight books when I was 14-15, and I never once picked up on anything in them as relating to theology or chastity or anything similar. When I first read about it online, I couldn't believe that's what people were managing to get out of the Bella-Edward-Jacob love triangle. It's possible I was or am just too dumb to see it, but it's just as possible that Stephenie Meyer's attempts at including metaphors were obscure and stupid, and/or that other people's attempts to find them in the story were really reaching (maybe to justify all the creepy abusive vibes). I don't know. Either way, someone or something is stupid.
PaperPennies
2020-08-26 09:52:54 +0000 UTCYou're welcome, it was quite dumb!
372 Pages We'll Never Get Back
2020-08-20 11:56:23 +0000 UTCThanks for reading my dumb sentence!
Hayden Olson
2020-08-19 17:21:12 +0000 UTCDangit, Conor, your "Edward sees Bella in the classroom" sound effects nearly made me choke on my cereal!
Gina Dalfonzo
2020-08-19 13:10:00 +0000 UTCI was prevented from listening to this immediately because of 3 hours of zoom meetings. I am going to rewrite these zoom meetings from the perspective of my cat
Eric Andrews
2020-08-18 22:46:20 +0000 UTCthis. is. AWESOME!!!!!
amolove
2020-08-18 22:24:51 +0000 UTCY'all are WEAK.
Emma Schroeder
2020-08-18 22:21:15 +0000 UTCWhat on earth are all of you talking about?
372 Pages We'll Never Get Back
2020-08-18 21:44:02 +0000 UTCTo my eternal shame I did buy this book but I don’t think anyone would fault you guys for backing out now. Maybe pivoting to the original would be more tolerable? Edit : for the record I really enjoyed this episode but if this turns into a longer shadow moon I worry about everyone’s sanity.
Tyler Nagel
2020-08-18 21:16:15 +0000 UTCAre you sure you want to read this? You can walk away now and feel no shame.
Mike Truman
2020-08-18 20:45:19 +0000 UTCPoint being, at least at some point in the 19th century, long-skinny fingers were not universally "in".
Moviegique
2020-08-18 20:35:56 +0000 UTCThis is the line I was trying to get across on the call-in, from Trollope's 1871 novel "The Eustace Diamonds" (a good book for those who doubt such things exist): "Her hands were very thin and long, and so were her feet,—by no means models as were those of her friend Lady Eustace." The Lady Eustace herself has fingers described only as "tapers" (which all good fingers should, I suppose).
Moviegique
2020-08-18 20:35:31 +0000 UTCYou guys sound worn down by this book already 😣🤣
Elizabeth Meredith
2020-08-18 19:56:42 +0000 UTC
