Episode 56 - For the Benefit of Evil Bird Kite
Added 2019-10-04 22:15:07 +0000 UTCTo say that LOTWW took an unexpected turn in this section would be a slap in the face to unexpected turns. While it appeared to be inching (worm pun) its way toward an exploration of the enormous holes that TOTALLY PROVE the existence of giant worms, most of the second quarter of the book is dedicated to Caswall's enormous bird kite.
Does he love the kite? Feel bad about the terror it hath wrought? Who knows! Stoker's writing is no more clear than Oolanga's expressions of love to Lady Arabella.
We'll also listen in on a historical conversation Stoker had, and Mike turns the tables on Conor by having him guess Real or Fanfic?
For next time read thru Chapter 23
Comments
There's a lot of commentary on this book at GoodReads, almost all of it staggered by the racism. But there are some people who gave it 5 stars. Definitely a candidate for a game of "Guess What Else They Rated".
Mike Truman
2019-10-08 15:42:11 +0000 UTCWhoops, read thru chapter 23!
372 Pages We'll Never Get Back
2019-10-08 14:27:05 +0000 UTCI listen to this at work and had to rewind that first “mind battle” scene on audible a few times, I was sure I was missing the part where it went from the mind battle to the birdemic but no, it really was that abrupt. What’s the next random side story is going to pop up next? Is White Worm lady going to become a compassionate veterinarian for several chapters before the big reveal as the monster? Also, I missed what the chapters we read for next time. I’m guessing chapters 17-22?
Jeremy Rieske
2019-10-07 21:58:44 +0000 UTCThis book is so bad, so racist, that I'd rather reread Bob Honey.
Mike Nelson
2019-10-07 14:52:17 +0000 UTCOnly that everyone else is appalled, my friend.
Emily Brown
2019-10-06 15:00:37 +0000 UTCYou do know that the Beatles stole that from a line in the Francis Coleman autobiography's chapter on The Beast of Yucca Flats, which he subtitled "Being for the Benefit of Tor Johnson," right?
Kerry S.
2019-10-06 05:22:43 +0000 UTCI'm reading this on Kindle, and the "most highlighted passages" are the super-ultra-racist sentences. I'm not sure what that means, exactly.
Urstoff
2019-10-06 02:18:31 +0000 UTCI really didn't think this book could get more racist. Then it got more racist.
Mike Truman
2019-10-05 18:22:20 +0000 UTCWho do you think plays Simon Chester?! I can't wait to find out?
372 Pages We'll Never Get Back
2019-10-05 16:15:59 +0000 UTCI can only imagine that the film adaptation of this book is going to contain far less kite action than its source material...or, at the very least, far less hideous racism. But hey, this movie did come out a couple of years after SOUL MAN, so who knows.
Jesse Shade
2019-10-05 15:32:29 +0000 UTCWhen the kite fell, giving Mimi hope, Bes fell with it. That's why Replacement Edward had to futz around with it again. I'm now convinced that the entire plot is going to hinge on Bes.
Bryan Olive
2019-10-05 13:52:36 +0000 UTC"Mongooses" is the oldest and most commonly accepted plural, but I believe "mongeese" is becoming mainstream. In the way that people say "irregardless" when they mean "regardless."
Theodore Lehman
2019-10-05 03:24:09 +0000 UTCJust heard the Real or Fanfic segment, gonna go fall to my knees in the rain and mourn the mongoose.
Theodore Lehman
2019-10-05 03:22:17 +0000 UTCBTW, everything in my fanfic were real facts about Bes the dwarf “god”, the most popular household god of ancient Egypt
M Williams
2019-10-05 02:10:01 +0000 UTCBWAHHAHA I fooled Conor!
M Williams
2019-10-05 01:42:48 +0000 UTCdirty trick
372 Pages We'll Never Get Back
2019-10-05 00:31:13 +0000 UTCmuhahahaha >:3
amolove
2019-10-05 00:04:34 +0000 UTCMongi? Monguy? I think the plural is "Mongeese", isn't it? FWIW that sudden shift you note is NOT part of the abridgment. It's just as jarring in the original.
Moviegique
2019-10-04 23:30:23 +0000 UTCI appreciate the Beatle song title pun.
Emma Schroeder
2019-10-04 22:20:13 +0000 UTC
