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.)

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.

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.

Do you love hearing scathing book reviews? Yes? Then, listen on! No? You listen on as well!

In this episode of Bad Reviews for Good Books, the Hancocks commentate on what reviewers had to say about The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Some fun bits of today's episode:

• Learn what Christian Science is. The Hancocks didn't know before they did this episode.

• "I can't do this!" Learn who said this and why it is Jaida's favorite part.
• Sleeping Fatty Podcast can be found here: https://open.spotify.com/show/3GvyI94N8aSQAA8Jgtubjx

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Do you love hearing scathing book reviews? Yes? Then, listen on! No? You listen on as well!

In this episode of Bad Reviews for Good Books, the Hancocks commentate on what reviewers had to say about Wicked by Gregory Maguire. Some fun bits of today's episode:

• For copyrighted materials: copyright protection lasts for the life of the author plus an additional 70 years.
• Have you ever hear the word corpuscular before? No? Jaida hadn't either. It refers to a corpuscle (a minute or elementary particle of matter, such as an electron, proton, or atom)
• MADELINE! If you don't know what this means, you'll *have* to listen.

*This episode is marked as explicit because it briefly discusses some sexual things that Maguire included in Wicked. If you are not comfortable with such topics, don't say we didn't warn you.

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Yes? Then, listen on!

No? You listen on as well!

This episode of Bad Reviews for Good Books is one-of-a-kind and will probably never be done again. The Hancocks tried to record an episode will the whole family (yes, that's right-- all seven of them!). Unfortunately, things got difficult due to many factors. The sound quality on this episode is subpar, to say the least. SO, if you have a problem with terrible audio, this one might not be for you.

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Do you love hearing scathing book reviews? Yes? Then, listen on! No? You listen on as well!

In this episode of Bad Reviews for Good Books, the Hancocks commentate on what reviewers had to say about Eragon by Christopher Paolini. Some fun bits of today's episode:

• Jaida talks about her fave sport. You won't want to miss it.
• What Jaida thinks about whenever she hears the name Charlie.
• Where Ryan has dimples ;)

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Do you love hearing scathing book reviews? Yes? Then, listen on! No? You listen on as well! In this episode of Bad Reviews for Good Books, the Hancocks commentate on what reviewers had to say about A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin. Jaida hasn't actually read the book, but the Hancocks also discuss some differences between the show and the book. Get excited, as this is the Hancocks most picture/gif heavy episode! Woohoo!

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