Episode 38 - 160 Pages We'll Never Get Back
Added 2019-04-08 17:24:46 +0000 UTCThank god this book was not 372 pages long. Neither of us could have handled that. Bob Honey was fortunately only 160, and even so, managed to have three different characters crap their pants, two of them in this final section. It's a fitting metaphor for something, but we'll be damned if we're going to puzzle it out, we're too busy enjoying our heated pool.
There is a lot to discuss as we wrap up this entry: the appropriate theme music for one of Bob's killing sprees, the practicality of the business model of dosing unsuspecting kids with acid, and what Penn might have left out of his wrap up poem.
This was quite a ride, and we're thankful for everyone who took it with us! Hopefully our next target will prove a bit more whimsical and a bit less alliterative!
Comments
Bold last sentence there!!
372 Pages We'll Never Get Back
2019-04-22 14:37:27 +0000 UTCThis book was awful and pretentious in all the ways I hated the books I was forced to read in school. It's like Penn took the tediousness of all force-fed literature and distilled it into this short and confusing volume. I truly look forward to the promised palate cleanser. I would read the whole Twilight saga ten times over rather than ever read anything like this again.
Trevor H. Cooley
2019-04-15 06:44:58 +0000 UTCSEND IT BACK
amolove
2019-04-13 00:42:14 +0000 UTCNOOOOOOOOOOO! What the living hell????
372 Pages We'll Never Get Back
2019-04-11 12:58:49 +0000 UTCI got a new Kindle in the mail today. Check out the packaging: <a href="http://imgur.com/gallery/DlitGFL" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://imgur.com/gallery/DlitGFL</a>
James Lester
2019-04-11 03:22:18 +0000 UTCI hated this book. That is all I can say about it.
Mike Nelson
2019-04-09 20:11:14 +0000 UTC[Pendantry Warning] Phil Ochs is pronounced "Oaks." My folk loving father is undoubtedly rolling over in his grave every time he hears Mike and Conor mispronounce the name of one of the heroes of early-sixties protest music. [This comment assumes that I am not missing the joke].
Graham Penn
2019-04-09 01:51:19 +0000 UTCAcres of it, I imagine and allege.
Theodore Lehman
2019-04-09 00:44:11 +0000 UTCLike Frodo and Sam in the crack of Mt. Doom, like Dorothy and Toto in the Emerald City, like Fievel being reunited with his family, like Captain Kirk and the crew retiring from their Trek, like sand through the hourglass, we made it to the end of Bob Honey. And wow, what a journey. I went from not understanding what Sean Penn was getting at, to not understanding what Sean Penn was getting at. Have a loathsome character constantly refer to social and political points that you're...supposed to agree with? Or are you not supposed to agree with the sheeple thing? A satire within a satire? Or just Sean Penn not knowing how to write well? Who can say? Actually, it's probably the last one.
Christopher Dazey
2019-04-09 00:32:41 +0000 UTCPlease, please include a Phil Ochs joke in the next Rifftrax Live.
Wondercake
2019-04-09 00:02:46 +0000 UTCSo when Sarah Silverman said that this book was "more relevant to this very moment than anything I’ve seen", she just meant that the final section of the book was a "We Didn't Start the Fire"-esque rundown of then-current news events which Sean Penn obviously included to make this book come off as "relevant" and "satirical". Good to know, Sarah Silverman! Now how much weed did he offer you to cook up that blurb?
Jesse Shade
2019-04-08 22:12:09 +0000 UTCBook sucked but "crackin' a grizz" is genuinely funny. A Google search shows that it's unique to Penn, too.
James Lester
2019-04-08 21:46:37 +0000 UTCPerhaps, but let me sizzle you this idea: an El Greco spin-off...! Eh..?!
372 Pages We'll Never Get Back
2019-04-08 21:20:32 +0000 UTCSurprise! It's just a shaggy dog story with a "Trump sucks!" punchline!
Moviegique
2019-04-08 20:21:17 +0000 UTC
