Books & Nachos
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Book Review: Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
08 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Book Review: New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Now Playing Book Review: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two: The Official Playscript of the Original West End Production
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
JK Rowling collaborates with a pair of theater veterans to tell her eighth Hogwarts adventure Harry Potter and the Cursed Child as a stage play. And...
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Brock, Stuart, and Arnie graduate from Hogwarts as they complete JK Rowling’s seventh and final Harry Potter novel, The Deathly Hallows. ...
Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Harry Potter was “the Chosen One” for readers around the world even before his sixth adventure became a global best-seller in summer 2005. Now the...
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Readers around the globe celebrated the 2003 release of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. So why are so many terrible things being printed in...
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
04 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Brock, Stuart, and Arnie are cheering in the stands for Harry Potter as he finally gets into the ring with nemesis Voldemort for his massive fourth no...
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Wizard studies might be going well for Harry Potter in third adventure Prisoner of Azkaban, but what he really needs is a law degree so he can keep ho...
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
17 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Brock, Arnie, and Stuart invite you into their flying car as they head back to Hogwarts, and pry open the cover of The Chamber of Secrets. This second...
Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Brock, Arnie, and Stuart use their combined podcasting magic to revive Books & Nachos so that the literary adventures of Harry Potter can finally be d...
Big Trouble in Little China/Escape from New York by Greg Pak, Daniel Bayliss, and Triona Farrell
23 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Snake Plissken is back, but which Snake Plissken is the real Snake Plissken? After reviewing four BOOM! Studios Escape from New York graphic novels, J...
Escape from Cleveland Christopher by Sebela and Maxim Simic
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Fun times in Cleveland again! Snake Plissken’s been retired for more than a decade, but when the government comes for his land, he’s going to lead...
Escape from New York Vol. 3: Escape to New York by Christopher Sebela and Maxim Simic
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Snake Plissken just wants to get away, but first, he’s got a bone to pick with his former president. In the third volume of BOOM! Studios’ Escape ...
Escape from Siberia by Christopher Sebela, Diego Barreto, Mike Henderson
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Snake Plissken leaves the Sunshine State for Siberia in the second volume of "Escape from New York" by BOOM! Studios. John Carpenter's eyepatch-wearin...
Escape from Florida by Christopher Sebela, Diego Barreto, Tim Bradstreet
31 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 2014, comic book publisher BOOM! Studios acquired the rights to produce new stories based on John Carpenter’s “Escape from New York” and its ...
Escape from New York by Mike McQuay
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Filmmaker John Carpenter scored a hit when his “Escape from New York” hit theaters in 1981, introducing the world to Kurt Russell’s eyepatch-wea...
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
30 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Before it became one of the most beloved movies of all time, The Godfather was a blockbuster novel with characters and plot points that never made it ...
Bad Man by Dathan Auerbach
23 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ben's three-year-old brother Eric disappeared five years ago, but Ben continues to search. When Ben takes a job at the store where Eric vanished thing...
Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier by Mark Frost
31 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
SPOILER ALERT: This podcast contains detailed information about the 2017 Showtime Twin Peaks series as well as all previous Twin Peaks books, mov...
The Hellraiser Chronicles Edited by Stephen Jones (and a look at Damnation Games by Phil and Sarah Stokes_
16 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing his look at nonfiction Hellraiser books, Arnie is back with a review of The Hellraiser Chronicles--a 1992 behind-the-scenes look at the ...
Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II by Christian Sellers and Gary Smart
07 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Clive Barker's Hellraiser and it's immediate follow-up Hellbound: Hellraiser II were low-budget productions, shot in the UK. Despite their small b...
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
30 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In 1987 Clive Barker took the world by storm with his film Hellraiser, but his first draft of that movie wasn't in screenplay form--it was a short ...
The Dark Tower: The Art of the Film by Daniel Wallace
17 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Gunslinger Roland Deschain had a long quest in his search for The Dark Tower. So too did filmmakers toil long to transform Stephen King's eight-novel ...
Twin Peaks: The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost
20 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Before the new season of Twin Peaks started on Showtime, series co-creator Mark Frost wrote a book to tide over anxious fans. That book was The Sec...
Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch
18 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
As Inland Empire hit theaters Lynch was also prepping a big release...for the bookstores. Catching the Big Fish is Lynch's combination of autobiograph...
Welcome to Twin Peaks: Access Guide to the Town
03 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
By the time Welcome to Twin Peaks was released ABC was already telling that town "Goodbye." The series' cancellation had been announced but the tie-...
Twin Peaks: The Autobiography of FBI Agent Dale Cooper -- My Life, My Tapes by Scott Frost
30 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Twin Peaks' cancellation was all but certain in May, 1991. Yet that is also when series writer Scott Frost's Agent Cooper book My Life, My Tapes was ...
Twin Peaks: Diane - Twin Peaks Tapes of Agent Cooper by Scott Frost
14 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
As Twin Peaks' second season began the merchandise machine was gaining speed. First came Jennifer Lynch's Secret Diary of Laura Palmer. Hot on i...
Twin Peaks: The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer by Jennifer Lynch
13 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1990 everybody was discussing Twin Peaks - the television phenomenon that kept people in suspense during their season break. Tidbit...
Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
02 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
No, Stuart was not eaten by a sand worm, he's back to discuss Children of Dune -- Frank Herbert's third novel in the Duneverse. Focusing on the ch...
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
21 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Everybody wants to rule the galaxy...but is it all it's cracked up to be? Now Emperor, Paul Atreides must balance his leadership with numerous plots...
Dune by Frank Herbert
09 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Frank Herbert's 1965 landmark novel DUNE is one of the most celebrated works of the science fiction genre, but does today's reader have to be a Mentat...
The Bourne Ultimatum by Robert Ludlum
18 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In 1990 Robert Ludlum returned to Jason Bourne one last time for The Bourne Ultimatum. This story finds Bourne once again in the crosshairs of Carlo...
The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum
11 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Bourne is back! Robert Ludlum had never written a sequel to any of his novels before. That streak ended in 1986 when Jason Bourne (or really David Web...
The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
05 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This summer is a great time to be re-Bourne! Matt Damon is returning to play Jason Bourne for the fourth time. For many Bourne fans, however, it may...
Independence Day: Crucible by Greg Keyes
27 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
20 years have passed between the 1996 sci-fi hit Independence Day and this summer's new Independence Day: Resurgence. That time passed in our rea...
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
02 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The Dead Zone was Stephen King's follow-up to The Stand. This new novel, about a man who gained psychic powers after a head injury, became the autho...
Watchmen by Alan Moore
21 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Watchmen. It was the only comic listed on Time Magazine's List of the 100 Best Novels list. It also was in The Comic's Journal's list of the Top 100...
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
26 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Last week the fourth, and final, Hunger Games film Mockingjay Part 2, dominated theaters. Now that you've had a chance to see how the movie concludes ...
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
19 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In 2009 Catching Fire fanned the flames of Hunger Games fans worldwide. Continuing the adventures of Katniss Everdeen, Collins' novel puts her back in...
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
12 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The Hunger Games novels topped the New York Times best seller lists and went on to become Amazon's all-time top selling book series (outselling even H...
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
05 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In 1999 Japanese author Koushun Takami gained global notice for his novel Battle Royale. In this ultraviolent, 600-plus page dystopian novel the Japan...
The Lost World by Michael Crichton
26 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Crichton never intended to write a sequel to his bestselling novel Jurassic Park. But when Stephen Spielberg's film was a smash success and t...
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
04 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Today the words Jurassic Park bring to mind a T-Rex roaring at a car, Sam Neil running through a pack of CGI dinosaurs, and John Williams score--all f...
The Long Walk by Stephen King (as Richard Bachman)
30 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
King's first novel wasn't Carrie, it was The Long Walk written while the author was a college freshman. It tells of a dystopian, alternate America in...
The Secret Service: Kingsman by Mark Millar, Dave Gibbons, and Matthew Vaughn
16 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Millar's comic Kick-Ass was adapted to film by director Matthew Vaughn. Now the two have teamed up again with Kingsman: The Secret Service, an i...
The Stand by Stephen King - Part 6
10 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
With his fifth published novel Stephen King went big--a tale about God and demons with the backdrop of a dystopian future. Involving fears both reali...
The Stand by Stephen King - Part 5
09 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
With his fifth published novel Stephen King went big--a tale about God and demons with the backdrop of a dystopian future. Involving fears both reali...
The Stand by Stephen King - Part 4
08 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
With his fifth published novel Stephen King went big--a tale about God and demons with the backdrop of a dystopian future. Involving fears both reali...
The Stand by Stephen King - Part 3
07 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
With his fifth published novel Stephen King went big--a tale about God and demons with the backdrop of a dystopian future. Involving fears both reali...
The Stand by Stephen King - Part 2
06 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
With his fifth published novel Stephen King went big--a tale about God and demons with the backdrop of a dystopian future. Involving fears both reali...
The Stand by Stephen King - Part 1
05 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
With his fifth published novel Stephen King went big--a tale about God and demons with the backdrop of a dystopian future. Involving fears both reali...
The Dark Man by Stephen King
24 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Of all the monsters in Stephen King's fiction none have captured reader imaginations quite like The Stand's Randall Flagg--The Walkin' Dude, The Dark ...
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
07 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
One stage magician learns how to split himself into two so that he can challenge a pair of rival illusionists who pretend to be one in The Prestige, C...
The Man Who Loved Flowers (from the Night Shift collection) by Stephen King
08 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In Stephen King's short story "The Man Who Loved Flowers" a man stops to buy roses on the way to see the woman he loves. His warm energy infects all ...
The Last Rung on the Ladder (from the Night Shift collection) by Stephen King
02 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The short stories collected in Stephen King's Night Shift were written over more than a decade--some originally published in 1968, others printed for ...
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
25 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Author JRR Tolkien spent three books, and over a thousand pages, creating a dense Middle Earth mythology. Now he brings that age of folklore to a thu...
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
15 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
A new front in the fight for Middle Earth opens as Hobbits Frodo and Sam continue their eastern journey to Mordor with only monstrous Gollum as a guid...
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
04 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
It took almost twenty years for the author of The Hobbit to pen a sequel - time enough for the children who grew up on the story to mature into reader...
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
28 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
It's hard to believe there was a time when the world didn't know of Hobbits, those hairy-toed homebodies who prefer a good pipe and cozy hole in the g...
Children of the Corn (from the Night Shift collection) by Stephen King
19 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Of all the stories in Stephen King's Night Shift none have the name recognition, or the notoriety, of "Children of the Corn." Originally published in...
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Firestorm by Greg Keyes
17 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is set in a post-apocalyptic San Francisco where an uneasy truce is being negotiated between distrustful apes and paran...
Conspiracy of the Planet of the Apes by Andrew E. C. Gaska
10 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Planet of the Apes might have begun in literature, but it reached mass popularity and commercial success with the 1968 Charlton Heston movie. That ci...
Planet of the Apes: The Fall and Planet of the Apes: Colony by William T. Quick
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In Tim Burton's 2001 film Planet of the Apes Leo Davidson (played by Mark Wahlberg) is sent to the alien world Ashlar in the far future where humans a...
3001: The Final Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
23 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The story of the monolith and man's exploration of space concludes in Arthur C. Clarke's ultimate Odyssey novel 3001: The Final Odyssey. Set a thousa...
2061: Odyssey Three by Arthur C. Clarke
16 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The movies ended in 2010 but the story of humanity's Space Odyssey continued in novels by original 2001 co-creator Arthur C. Clarke. In this third in...
2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke
09 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Fourteen years after Arthur C. Clarke co-created the multimedia experience 2001, the author returns to Jupiter alone in the follow-up novel 2010: Ody...
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
02 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Many times movies are made based on popular novels. Other times marketing companies see easy money in releasing cheap novelizations of upcoming films...
Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle
27 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone knows Planet of the Apes, the movie. With Charlton Heston's oft-quoted lines and the famously spoiled twist ending, the film has entered the...
I Know What You Need (from the Night Shift collection) by Stephen King
16 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Ed is the perfect boyfriend. He takes Elizabeth to the movies she wants to see, cheers her up when she's feeling down, and always seems to know what ...
Lawnmower Man (from the Night Shift collection) by Stephen King
09 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
A man has let his lawn grow too long and needs expert help to cut it down. Unknowing he calls a lawn service run by the Pan, the Greek god of fertilit...
Strawberry Spring (from the Night Shift collection) by Stephen King
02 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Under the cover of an unseasonable night fog a killer has started preying on the female students at the usually quiet New Sharon Community College. Po...
Trucks (from the Night Shift collection) by Stephen King
25 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Five strangers are stranded at a truck stop--the last place they want to be now that all the sixteen wheelers outside have come to life and started dr...
Battleground (from the Night Shift collection) by Stephen King
18 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
It's not fun and games when army men come to life to avenge the murder of their maker! This war of toy versus man is the plot of "Battleground", Step...
Sometimes They Come Back (from the Night Shift collection) by Stephen King
11 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1950s some teenagers killed Jim Norman's older brother. Now, sixteen years later, Jim is an adult teaching English at a new school. When some...
Gray Matter (from the Night Shift collection) by Stephen King
04 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
There are some who think no beer is a bad beer, but they haven't read Stephen King's short story "Gray Matter." From the Night Shift collection this ...
I Am the Doorway (from the Night Shift collection) by Stephen King
27 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
An astronaut returned from Venus believes he has been inhabited by homicidal aliens. These aliens have sprouted eyes on the man's hands, and forced h...
Night Surf (from the Night Shift collection) by Stephen King
20 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
A superflu nicknamed "Captain Tripps" kills most of the people on Earth. This story tells the tale of a small group of survivors. No, this is not St...
The Mangler (from the Night Shift collection) by Stephen King
13 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever worked on your computer, your lawnmower, or your car and felt that the damned machine is out to get you? That perhaps a demonic spirit ...
Graveyard Shift (from the Night Shift collection) by Stephen King
06 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Hall is a drifter who has taken a night job at the Gates Falls mill for the summer. It seems like an easy gig, but with the numerous rats and the anno...
Quitters Inc. (from the Night Shift collection) by Stephen King
27 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Dick Morrison has to quit smoking. He may not want to quit smoking, but after signing up for the cessation program run by a group of mobsters under t...
The Ledge (from the Night Shift collection) by Stephen King
20 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Would you rather go to jail and never again see the woman you love, or walk along a 42nd story ledge that is only five inches wide? That is the choic...
The Boogeyman (from the Night Shift collection) by Stephen King
13 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
A man goes to a psychiatrist claiming he killed all three of his children, but not through direct action but rather inaction--failure to stop The Boog...
The Woman in the Room (from the Night Shift collection) by Stephen King
06 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
A woman lays in her hospital bed, dying of cancer. Her son, John, sits next to her, a bottle of painkillers in his pocket, thinking of ending her suf...
Rage by Stephen King (as Richard Bachman)
31 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Author Stephen King, feeling stifled by Doubleday's mandate that he not publish more than one novel per year, made an agreement where he could publish...
The Wolf of Wall Street and Catching the Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort
07 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Jordan Belfort made headlines in the 1990s, first for his unusual start-up stock trading firm, then for his illegal stock manipulation practices. But...
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
13 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Torrance was just five years old when he survived the ghostly attacks of his drunken father at The Overlook Hotel. But for 36 years fans have wond...
The Shining by Stephen King
09 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Do you know Stephen King's The Shining? You may think you do--iconography from King's third book litters American pop culture. The Overlook Hotel. ...
Jersulam's Lot (from the Night Shift Collection) by Stephen King
02 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen King's "Jerusalem's Lot" tells the story of Charles Boone and his servant Calvin. In 1850 the two men move to Preacher's Corners, Maine where...
One For the Road (from the Night Shift Collection) by Stephen King
25 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Some questions lingered when Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot ended. Were all the vampires killed? Due to the success of the novel, and to help publicize ...
'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
18 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
"What would happen if Dracula came to America today?" With that conversational inquiry Stephen King was inspired to write the novel 'Salem's Lot. Ki...
Murder and Other Distractions by Michael Estrin
13 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Ethan's life is a bit of a mess. He spends his time in a toxic, casual relationship, smoking weed and coasting through his job, all the while pining ...
Dracula by Bram Stoker
31 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
For over 100 years we have lived among the vampires. Werewolves, ghosts, and serial killers have all popped up, but the vampire has been the monster ...
Psycho House by Robert Bloch
24 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The same year that Psycho IV premiered on Showtime, original Psycho author Robert Bloch also returned to the Bates Motel with his third and final book...
Carrie by Stephen King
30 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Carrie is the tale of a telekinetic teenage outcast, was phenomenal success for any book, let alone the first-published work of a new author. It's fi...
Psycho II by Robert Bloch
26 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Hitchcock's Psycho became such a phenomenal success that it all but obscured the novel on which it was based. But in 1982 original Psycho author Robe...
Psycho by Robert Bloch
19 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Psycho. The word evokes common images, all black and white from the classic Alfred Hitchcock film. The film is such an acclaimed success that for ma...
World War Z by Max Brooks
21 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week the movie World War Z arrives in theaters starring Brad Pitt as an investigator traveling the world during a massive zombie outbreak. The f...