eReaders. Books. Everything in Between.Episode 4: Kick in the What?
After 2 days of internet fail, welcome to our in depth discussion about Mercury Falls by Robert Kroese! As it turns out, a corrupted file was the source of our uploading troubles.
In this episode, Kristy & I talk about anarchy, physical violence, & why I hate ABBA. And yes, we manage to find a way to put Nathan Fillion in our movie version of the book & reveal my In Depth Discussion selection for February. Wanna know if we enjoyed Mercury Falls? Then listen!
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Hmmm, Dr. Who as Mercury? I never would have thought of that, but I can see your analogy. Maybe Christopher Eccleston would work, but certainly not David Tennant. For some reason, I see Neil Patrick Harris in this role.
As far as Kevin, I was thinking Stephen King, or better yet Sasha Cohen. You could give him a kick in the, um, *shins*, any time.
I thought there was too much talk about linoleum in the book, and it annoyed me a bit. As far as the physics, I would think it's not good as a portal because linoleum could be loose. They talked about the pattern on it matching the pattern at the other end. I thought of it like a pentagram, since that fits with the style of the story. You just step on one and appear standing on the other, sort of like Star Trek. I liked the books 'Grand Central' approach to them.
I imagined the 4 briefcases as being like the one that you see that has 'the button' and is always trailing the President in the movies. I am obviously not into designer ones like you gals are!
I give the book a thumb 3/4 up! Funny at times, a bit weird and satirical. Thanks for the recommendation and the tongues-in-cheek review.
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I was totally thinking David Tennant when I said that, though Christopher Eccleston was my "first" Doctor. Have you seen the clips of Tennant on YouTube from BBC's broadcast of Hamlet? It's incredible. Just incredible. I think Tennant can do anything. NPH is a great choice too, though. He's got the snark down, that's for sure.
I'd like to kick Sasha Cohen in the *shins.* I'd do that without him being Karl, actually. Don't like that guy at all. ;D
Hope you enjoy the next read. The Monster of Florence is going to be pretty "heavy." But it's time to get to some meat!
Thanks for listening & being positive. We appreciate it!
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Thanks, Bonnie, for the YouTube head's up. Now that I've looked at these, and seen David Tennent play a different role, I can see why you picked him. He WOULD make a good Mercury. BTW...do a search on Google for "t-shirt the angels have the phone box". Seriously? Yes, seriously!!
Kristy: THANK you for not going on about baseball! And, I forgot totally about the 10 virgins since that was at the beginning of the book. Thank goodness for the Kindle 'search' function. I had forgotten them getting into an argument about who was pregnant and who had an abortion. It was good for a re-laugh. And, I howled at your 'we can be found' at the end of the podcast!
Since the next book, "The Monster of Florence" is a bit expensive, I looked on-line and my library had one copy, and it was in, so I ran out today and checked it out. I hadn't been to my library since I got my Kindle. It will be fun reading a DTB for a change, though I will miss the dictionary function.
Thanks again for the entertaining podcasts!
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I just wanted to thank you for picking "The Monster of Florence". I've read the intro and chapter 1, and the book is amazing! Being a native NY'er, it reminds me of the Son of Sam killings in 1976/77, only more gruesome.
I would ask you, Bonnie, to let us know how the text-to-speech does with all the Italian names, but TTS is disabled by the publisher! Bummer!!
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TTS would have been epic! It's crazy on my GPS, I can tell you that. It's interesting to navigate the street signs & the GPS pronunciation.
So funny; both you & Kristy are ahead of me. I've been trying to finish up Wolf Hall, which I've been trudging through for awhile now. So close to finishing it that I refuse to stop now. Guess I'll be the last one to finish the book this time around.
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