We read read truly one of the most baffling books we've ever tackled with special guest Sophie Abromowitz! Oh and a Wheel of Time cut chapter too.

Sophie's Vampire Short Story: https://thebrooklynreview.com/2025/10/31/rules-for-vampires-sophie-abromowitz/
Sophie Substack: https://abromowitz.substack.com/

Seriously everyone check these out, Sophie has very quickly become one of my favorite writers.

Sophie Website: https://sophie-abromowitz.com/

Content warnings for this episode: auditory hallucinations, betrayal, bleeding, bullying, cheating/infidelity, child endangerment, child death, conspiracies, death, duels, gender dysphoria, god kings, human sacrifice, imprisonment, insanity, lying, mental illness, mind control, murder, neglect, nuclear weapons, oligarchy, prisons, religion, royalty, self harm, self hatred, stabbing, tech billionaires, torture, undeath, wounds, xenophobia

Next month we'll be reading Steelheart! Episode airs, November 18th.

Other Media

The Coen Brothers Intolerable Cruelty

Milwaukee PD Surviving Edged Weapons - Content Warnings Abound here

God Emperor of Dune

Wii Sports Resort

Guilty Gear

Guild Wars 2 - Ghosts and Ascalon and The Sea of Sorrows

The Book of Atrus - Myst - Rand Miller

Revenge of the Sith - Russel Stover

Changeover: A Young Rivalry and a New Era of Men's Tennis - Giri Nathan

Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive! - Melissa Lozada-Oliva

Hot Streak Board Game

The West Passage - Jared Pechaček

Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway

Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway

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We're back with The Rithmatist!

To skip A Memory of Light, Go to 29:41

Next month we'll be reading Infinity Blade Redemption & River of Souls. Episode airs October 7th.

Content warnings for this episode: abandonment, ableism, betrayal, bleeding, bullying, censorship, child abuse, child endangerment, child soldiers, Christianity, classism, colonialism, conspiracies, cults, death, displacement, existentialism, fandom, Harry Potter, human sacrifice, human transformation, immigration visas, J.K. Rowling, lying, mental illness, military, military academies, mind control, misogyny, Mormonism, murder, neglect, oligarchy, parental death, racism, religion, royalty, Scottish occupation, self harm, self hatred, settler colonialism, tourism, transphobia, undeath, Washington D.C.'s occupation, wounds

References

The Origins of the Wheel of Time by Michael Livingstone

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (attain second hand)

Brian Herbert Dune Sequels

The Expanse by James SA Corey

Return of the King - The Scouring of the Shire

You're Wrong About's 6 Part Series on Princess Diana

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We read two novellas this month, The Emperor's Soul is really good! Legion is the craziest thing we've ever read for the show (and maybe off the show too).

Huge thanks to Kirk for guesting on this episode, you can find all his information here. https://kirkhamilton.com/

Next month we'll be discussing The Rithmatist and the End of A Memory of Light

Content warnings for this episode: ableism, Abu Sayyaf, assassination, atheism, betrayal, bleeding, blood magic, body horror, body modification, bombing, braindeath, broken bones, Catholicism, Christianity, classism, death, discussion of sexuality, enemies to lovers, genocide, hallucinations, imperialism, imprisonment, Islam, Israeli/Palestinian war, insanity, kidnapping, maiming, mind control, misogyny, Mormonism, murder, mutation, mutilation, Navy Seals, necromancy, racism, religious conversion, religious extremism, religious wars, Richard Dawkins, self harm, settler colonialism, slavery, stabbing, sterilization, strangulation, suicide, suicide bombing, suicide by police, terminal illness, therapy, tokenism, undeath, wounds and infection

Things Mentioned

Dave (1993) dir by Ivan Reitman

The Princess Bride dir by Rob Reiner

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Gladiator (2000) dir by Sir Ridley Scott

The Matrix (1999) dir by The Wachowski Sisters

Your Name (2016) dir by Makoto Shinkai

Miniature Painting

Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

Quote Investigator Article about the Quote I attribute to Emerson https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/06/20/books/

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) dir by Mel Stuart

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Disco Elysium

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