Episode 127 - Crime Fiction

This episode we’re discussing the dreaded Did Not Finish! We talk about why we don’t finish books, specific titles we didn’t finish, why not finishing books can be good, what “finishing” a book even means, how you “finish” a cross-media property, and returning to books we stopped reading. Plus: Speedrunning books!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Books We Did Not Finish Reading

• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Rivendale (Wikipedia)
  • Shelob (Wikipedia)
  • A Walking Song
• The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  • “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.”
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, translated by Reg Keeland
• Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville

Other Media We Mentioned (and may have finished!)

• The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
• Highlander (film) (Wikipedia)
• Nart Sagas from the Caucasus: Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs by John Colarusso
• Overwatch (video game) (Wikipedia)
• Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Wikipedia)
• Spyro the Dragon (Wikipedia)
• Later Alligator
• Final Fantasy VII (Wikipedia)
• Grand Theft Auto (Wikipedia)
• World of Warcraft (Wikipedia)
• Steven Universe (Wikipedia)
  • Some of the pilot episode...