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This thread's a place to share your Top Five opinions about our live show with the fine folks at Appointment Television.

Thread for thoughts on Episode 402. A starting question: are there other books that you find really interesting from a historical or thematic perspective but found the actual act of reading to be quite tough?

*whistles Mockingjay tune*

Possible conversation starter: anyone read these books as a teenager? We were almost a decade too old for that experience.

A thread to leave all of your Wool thoughts! Had you heard of these stories before? How quickly would YOU start asking questions if you lived in an underground silo?

Any listeners read this yet? Did you find the exploration of Aunt Lydia compelling? Were you interested to learn more about Gilead?

This is a thread for all your thoughts on Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair!

Lotta folks recommending the Bree Tanner novella! Not sure if/when we'd get around to it, but it seems like enough people dug it that it could be worth investigating.

And you're right, Steven, about where some of her views are coming from. I honestly can't remember right now how much of that we talked about it in our first Twilight episode, but I do think we mentioned *some* of it. But yeah, the presumed values of the Twilight world definitely overlap with a lot of religious conservative thought.

As per this episode's conversation, I think both of us having read the books means we spend more time than usual talking about specific story beats or scenes because we both want to react to it. If it were a normal, one-person-reads-it experience, I imagine one of us would be bringing more of Meyer's background to the discussion. I reckon we'll come back to some of this stuff in our wrap-up on Breaking Dawn.

Glad everyone's enjoying the episode!

Anyone have experience making Halloween costumes based on literary characters? Looking for some inspiration this year.

Elli wrote: ""Most disputes die and nobody shooooots.""

THIS.

I'm just going to hang out here plugging for myself in what is most certainly (not) a contest until Andrew figures out there's a live comment thread in here.

Oh please put me to shame with a page count contest.

(Not sure how the LOTR books would balance out, though, actually.)

We sprung this on y'all without much warning, so we didn't get a chance to put out a call for Bond Thoughts. Anybody got 'em? Controversial favorite Bonds? Best theme song?

If any of y'all are up for a trip to Philadelphia, you can catch us recording a LIVE episode on August 20th at 6pm. We'll be talking Watership Down at the Tattooed Mom bar on South St. More info at phillypodfest.com/schedule.

What should we talk about?! Any burning questions you have about bunnies?

So we sprung our The Call of the Wild ep on y'all, but it seems like people are enjoying it. The dog Buck got me thinking about pets in literature, but I'm sort of drawing a blank of other impactful pets.

What are everyone's favorites?

This is a good list so far, everyone!

Except the erotica. Ugh, the erotica.

We briefly mentioned one or two other dinosaur books on the air. But are there other books about everyone's favorite prehistoric creatures that people should know about?

I feel like Jurassic Park is really the only one anyone people talk about.

Sonja wrote: "I have some appreciation for gothic-style horror - Lovecraft, Buffy, etc. But as soon as people start weltering in their gore or something actually scary happens, I'm in the wind.

I totally cover..."

That attic episode of Luther actually derailed our household attempt to keep watching the show. I REALLY want to get back but MAN. Also, the first episode of the twins in Season 2 still gives me the shivers.

To Andrew's point, I think we had a decent discussion with Margaret about this on our Little House on the Prairie episode. There's a lot of implicit problems to the time period that the book certainly doesn't avoid, but if you're looking for a snapshot of that lifestyle from that particular perspective there really isn't anywhere else to go.