Bad Reviews for Good Books

By: Jaida Hancock
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  • In this podcast, Ryan and Jaida Hancock commentate on the scathing reviews that can be found about books that are loved by the general populace.
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Episodes
  • Episode 52 - Best Sellers of All Time

    Episode 52 - Best Sellers of All Time
    Oct 16 2024

    Want to sound smart at book signings? Listen to find out the authors and books that have sold the most copies EVAH. Through the one-star reviews you'll learn just enough about each book to pretend you read them and are too sophisticated to find them engaging. You might be surprised at the #1 romance author... (You will be surprised. Ain't nobody's ever heard of her.)
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    33 mins
  • Episode 51 - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

    Episode 51 - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
    May 19 2024

    Reading a single book is sufficient to catapult one into literary snobbery. But only if that book was written in 1869 by a Russian aristocrat who's grasp of brevity begins and ends with - the word between breville and brevirostris in the dictionary. After you've listened to a few dozen one-star reviews of Tolstoy's 1.5K page masterpiece, you too, can pretend to have read what critics have deemed one of the greatest books of all time. And if there's one thing the world needs more of, it's literary snobs.

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    45 mins
  • Episode 50 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

    Episode 50 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
    Dec 19 2023

    Alice's dress has become as iconic as Cinderella's and the Disney adaptation of the book has been hijacked by Pink Floyd. But did you know Lewis Carroll is a pseudonym for an Oxford professor with a (suspected) DARK secret? Join Jaida and Ryan as they explore cynical (and educational) reviews of this 150-year-old classic.
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    25 mins

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