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Episode 19 - Our Next Book: Not Cline, Still Very Bad
🕑 Added 2018-10-09 13:30:42 +0000 UTC In this episode, we actually reveal the title of our next book. And wow: by all accounts does it appear to be a doozy. There is some information about the title and reading assignment, but since the reveal occurs as a very dramatic surprise in the episode, we have hidden it after a few pictures of incredibly fat bears:
So yeah, our next book is called The Eye of Argon. We figured, what could possibly carry the torch of Ernest Cline's terrible books, and decided: how about a typo-riddled fantasy novella written five decades ago by a sixteen year old who never published anything again?
The Eye of Argon by Jim Theis is obscure, but it is available in print (VERY curious what the publisher makes of the sudden spike in sales!) Fortunately, it's also available in every ebook format known to man right here. And if you want a true window into madness, check out the scan of the original issue of the Ozark SF Association "magazine" it appeared in.
The Eye of Argon is mercifully short, so you could probably read the whole thing in one sitting, but for our next episode we're only going to read thru the first four chapters. Yes, that includes chapter 3.5. No, we don't know why there are multiple "half" chapters.
Enjoy!
Comments
Theodore Lehman
It's not so much a story as it is a man's love song to his thesaurus. And maybe it's just because I really want to reference Mötley Crüe for some reason, but it seems like a pretty sick love song.
Snowman
This "book" is sorely in need of some vowels for the character names. Maybe the author could have borrowed a few from all the misspelled words in the text. Save us!
