Appetizer 2: Powerful Female Characters

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02/25/22 • 41 min

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Marlon and Jake Read Dead People

Marlon & Jake are back to discuss the most indelible and powerful female characters—those written by dead female authors and those written by dead male authors. From Sula Peace to the Wife of Bath, Scout Finch to Janie Crawford—these two gentleman celebrate some of literature’s most ferocious, complicated, guileless, unrepentant and commanding women.

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Palliser novels by Anthony Trollope
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Double Indemnity by James Cain
There Eyes Are Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Dubliners by James Joyce
Kindred Octavia Butler
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles
Sula by Toni Morrison

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Palliser novels by Anthony Trollope
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Double Indemnity by James Cain
There Eyes Are Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Dubliners by James Joyce
Kindred Octavia Butler
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles
Sula by Toni Morrison

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Appetizer 1: Unreliable Narrators

Marlon & Jake are back to discuss the narrators they love but can't trust. From the delusional to the uninformed, the sociopathic to the sympathetic, they explore the characters that charm as much as they trick, begging the question: is there such a thing as a reliable narrator? So tune in to hear if Jake has warmed to Great Expectations (spoiler alert: he hasn’t) and so much more!

Select titles mentioned in this episode:

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Stern
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
"Charles" by Shirley Jackson (in The Lottery and Other Stories collection)

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In just one week, Marlon and Jake return with an epic new season discussing the non-living luminaries they love, hate, and will never agree on. Get ready for even more hot takes, hilarious debates, and incisive commentary on dead poets, judging books by their covers, exactly what kind of student Marlon was in college, and which classic novel Jake spoiled the ending for a colleague—among other literary gems.