It’s 2017, and we begin the year with Adventures in Moominland, Watership Down (again), blatant plagiarism and Cormac McCarthy’s attitude towards punctuation. We also take a look at books that were ruined by one bad chapter. Tune in to The Geek Show Podcast Network for all the latest news, discussions […]
Literary Loitering
Literary Loitering 57 – Mutton-Shunters Dressed As Lamb
It’s that time of the year again, and Santa has delivered us a sack full of goodies thanks to the Literary Review’s “Bad Sex in Fiction Award”. We also somehow (we’re still not sure how), wind up investigating old insults. Tune in to The Geek Show Podcast Network for all […]
Literary Loitering 56 – Spirit Roasts and Cocktails
Strange things are afoot with ghost-written novels, spirit cooking and Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned. Our featured books are Old Venus (Co-edited by George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois), and The Obsidian Throne (Book 5 of The Ballad Sir Benfro), by J. D. Oswald. Tune in to The Geek […]
Literary Loitering 55 – Gated Community Fantasy
Ice Cube will pay the role of Fagin in Disney’s new musical adaptation of Oliver Twist (we’re not kidding). We also find out more about Charlie the Choo Choo, Christopher Marlowe and Anaïs Nin. Our featured books are The Mage Wars Omnibus by Mercedes Lackey & Larry Dixon, and With […]
Literary Loitering 54 – The Flavour of Existential Dread
We’re top-filled with weirdness this week with surrealist cook books, scary clowns, Mein Drumpf and awards for good and bad sex. We also have a quiz about authors insulting other authors. Tune in to The Geek Show Podcast Network for all the latest news, discussions and reviews, and follow us […]
Literary Loitering 53 – The Temple of Bad Ideas
Things continue to be odder than normal with a new twist in a war of words, Scottish translations of English books and a comic-book about the history of sex. Our featured books are Duskfall by Christopher Husberg and Aliens Omnibus volume 2 (Aliens: Genocide by David Bischoff and Aliens: Alien […]
Literary Loitering 52 – Licence To Quill
It’s an odder than whatever passes for normal this week as Frederick Forsyth decides to stop writing thrillers, the Oxford Electronic Dictionary adds more strange words and phrases to the English language, and beer is made from the yeast found on Roald Dahl’s special writing chair … Our featured books […]
Literary Loitering 51 – Big Papa Hemingway
Aside from Elon Musk accidentally causing the price of a book to skyrocket and a Hemingway winning a Hemingway lookalike contest, the big news is that Terry Pratchett’s “The Wee Free Men” is being adapted for a movie! We also look at the working titles of some classic novels and […]
Literary Loitering 50 – Everything Needs More Swashbuckling
This week the English language obtained some strange new words and phrases, a Mexican artist creates The Trump Hut and Saddam Hussein wrote several fiction novels? Our featured books are Voyage of the Basilisk: A Memoir of Lady Trent (#3), by Marie Brennan and Eagle in Exile by Alan Smale. […]
Literary Loitering 49 – The Plums of Anger
We’re a man down and two men up this week, and somewhere in that equation is an algorithm for best-sellers and a children’s picture book about Donald Trump. Our featured books are Gig Posters Volume 2: Rock Show Art of the 21st Century, The Tropic of Serpents: A Memoir by […]