Dried Up Brain

We're talking about The Sandman Vol 7. - Brief Lives. It's a devastatingly emotional story about bear piss, strip clubs, and avian driving lessons.

Strap in and activate your blast shields for a discussion of surly robots, bad employees, and the value of cheesy tv as we discuss All Systems Red by Martha Wells.

We're talking about The Sandman: Fables & Reflections. It's another collection of one-off stories that cover topics ranging from doomed kings to talkative birds.

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In our oversized end of year episode we cover the Wolves of Brooklyn by Catherynne Valente, Hope Never Dies by Andrew Shaffer, and our top five reads of the year.

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We're back in The Dreaming for fifth volume of The Sandman, A Game of You. 

In this episode we dig into Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez. 

We're talking about the fourth volume of The Sandman and it's a complicated story about heaven, hell, dinner parties, business meetings, boarding schools, and balloons.

 

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As a spooky, ooky Halloween treat we decided to read The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker and watch the film adaption Hellraiser. Andrea describes her experience rewatching the scariest movie she had ever seen and Nate somehow draws a comparison between Hellraiser and Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

 

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We read The Sandman Vol. 3: Dream Country and that means we're talking about cats, fairies, metafiction, superhero support groups, and Nate's effusive love for a single page of comics that's just a guy quoting Shakespeare.

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In this episode we discuss Sunbleached by Nathan Ballingrud and Ole-Luk-Oie, the Dream-God by Hans Christian Andersen. This includes an exploration of the vampire as literary device and the trend of reapportioning fairy tales in modern works of fiction.

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