Unfortunately Required Reading

Review and relive the books that made you cringe in school, but now with cocktails and sass.

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That's Showbiz Kid (A Confederacy of Dunces)
This week Amanda and Victoria celebrate Victoria's birthday month with A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, and the legacy of New Orleans.
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2:08:09
Inconceivable! Anybody want a Peanut? (The Princess Bride)
Somehow in this economy we get Baron Von Cheeseplate back on the show to discuss William Goldman's The Princess Bride, as well as how much we all hate that weird Evangelical puppet, Douglas.
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2:25:18
The Haunted Audio (Turn of the Screw)
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Henry James' novella, The Turn of the Screw. After Daddy's Little Harbinger shows up (Mothman) our audio started to have some problems, the episode crashing twice. The rest of his death story is posted on UnfortunatelyRequiredReading.com for the curious.
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1:37:00
Diet Malthus (Ishmael)
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss the Daniel Quinn book of Socratic dialogue with a gorilla, Ishmael.
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1:29:36
This is My Roman Empire (I, Claudius)
This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Robert Graves' epic I, Claudius, and immediately questioning Graves' concepts of history.
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1:18:20