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Episode 33 - Checkmate
🕑 Added 2019-02-24 16:53:32 +0000 UTCAll good things must come to an end. On a completely unrelated note, this book also must come to an end.
And what an ending it is! After pages and pages of repeated text and detailed descriptions of the families of characters who are never mentioned again, we get some actual, honest to god plot development. And when it finally happens, it's more ludicrous than we could have ever hoped.
We will warn you that by listening to this podcast, you may possibly receive a decade in prison without the possibility of parole in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, since evidently they hand those things out like candy on Halloween (or as it's called in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, "Boxing Day")
Hope you enjoyed the voyage into the Unoverse as much as we did!
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64 squares was an inside job.
Erik Flowers
I'm late to the episode, I just finished the book, but what is the plot of the book? A scene or 2 in a courtroom at the end? Was a setting even described as to where the narrator was speaking from? Or was it 100% recounting via exposition of a story, but there was no actual plot?
M Williams
That's on my "to read" list already. I feel attacked.
Jacob Grudzina
Next book: 'Gravity's Rainbow!' In no way would this present a challenge.
Shawn Furniss
If you're want to look for something "bad" I would suggest Ice Station by Matthew Riley, or really anything by him. His books are the literary equivalent of film Commando if you were to compare it to a film like Act Of Valor. One is ridiculously unrealistic but fun and the other is very realistic and enjoyable in its own way. If you just want something that's horrible I'll send you a couple copies of my Dad's book. I love the guy but his book heavily religious, badly written, and really just a vehicle for his poetry. I mean he listed The Weirding Way fighting discipline from Dune for it, at least in the first draft. P.S. Patreon's comment system kind of sucks.
Shawn Furniss
My suggestion for your next book: Pick something that is considered to be a good book. Why? Because the riffs you guys did for Casablanca, Jaws, Even Raiders Of The Lost Ark, I think, are some of your best work and those are considered to be good or even great films.
Luke Bovard
I was thinking, maybe for the next book, if it is in a series, then there should be another episode of fanfiction for the last episode, but with examples from the future books. Like here it would have been fun to hear some people make up scenarios from future books.
372 Pages We'll Never Get Back
Imagine Mr. Cohen growling that second collection of words. ♫"Companies monitor what their employees do / even when they leave there desk to use the restroom / Since Peter Graham was COO / he knew about everything that Pam Valentine did. Hallelujah / Hallelujah..."♫ Tell me you wouldn't pay to hear that?! - mjn
Daniel Laird
I think that's being a little over generous to our young Master Thrash.
AMBER STRONG
*Spoiler* I’m just happy to learn that Jack “Sheriff” Starr manages to land on his feet after the events of 64 - Squares.
Laura Journey
The Forensic Certified Public Accountant series tickled at the back of my mind. I couldn't figure out why until I looked at the other books and realized I had seen the cover of one before. <a href="https://lousybookcovers.com/?p=1190883" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://lousybookcovers.com/?p=1190883</a>
Sharon R
I'm not sure I find much comfort in Mike's attempt to theorize about what muse moved Mr. Thrash. Is he suggesting there is the infinitesimally small possibility of a reality where the story of David and Bathsheba inspired both these words: Well your faith was strong but you needed proof You saw her bathing on the roof Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya AND these: Companies monitor what their employees do, even when they leave there desk to use the restroom. Since Peter Graham was COO, he knew about everything that Pam Valentine did. I think I need to go lay down now.
Theodore Lehman
About the "explosive ropes," there exist rope-like explosives called detonation cord, used to set off high explosives in mining and demolitions. It's basically a fuse that explodes instead of burning. I wonder if D. D. Thrash envisioned lengths of detonation cord with packs of dynamite or gelignite every so many feet. At the height of a 64-floor building the cord wouldn't explode all at once, so most of the bombs would fall away from the building and probably cause no damage to it. I'm also not sure I want to give him the credit that he's not just envisioning ordinary ropes that have been treated with some sci-fi super chemical to make them absurdly explosive. He has already introduced wiretaps that work on computers and binocular contact lenses, so we can only ponder how far the madness goes.
Elizabeth Foote
I had to rewind the episode when for several seconds I got distracted making connections between the story's climax and David and Bathsheba with my mental yarn-wall. I just want so badly for there to be sense and/or subtext where there is none!
Joe Talledo
In Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, there's this famous recurring bit about detective Marlowe puzzling out a chess problem and how it's an allegory for life. It's a bit horrifying to think that there might be some kind of connection between Chandler's seminal detective novel and 64-Squares.
A. D. Jameson
Set up the board for another podcast.
