Books & Nachos
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Return of the Living Dead by John Russo
03 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Return of the Living Dead is best known for being a 1985 horror-comedy film that is both a sequel to and a spoof of George Romero's classic Night of t...
New Avengers: Breakout Prose Novel by Alisa Kwitney
17 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing the look at the new series of Marvel Comics prose novels that adapt popular comic arcs into novel form Arnie is back this week to review Ne...
Astonishing X-Men: Gifted Prose Novel by Peter David
12 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Next Tuesday the fourth book in Marvel Comics new prose novel series is being released--Iron Man: Extremis by Marie Javins. This wraps up the four no...
If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell
05 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Even if you don't know the name Bruce Campbell the odds are you've seen him in television shows and movies. Currently a star of Burn Notice, Campbell...
Marvel's Civil War Prose Novel by Stuart Moore
27 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Last year Marvel Comics started a new prose novel line adapting popular comic book story arcs to long fiction form. Now Arnie is reviewing all four o...
Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits by Garth Ennis
08 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
After reviewing the Keanu Reeves film Constantine, based on DC's Hellblazer comics, hosts Arnie and Jakob turn to the source material on which the mov...
Hellblazer: Original Sins by Jamie Delano
06 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Jakob and Arnie have returned to Books & Nachos to review more DC comics graphic novels. On Tuesday they reviewed the Keanu Reeves film Constantine, ...
58 Minutes by Walter Wager
31 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The original Die Hard movie was based on the novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp. But as Thorp's novel had no sequel, 20th Century Fox had ...
Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp
24 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Die Hard is based on the novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp. The novel was a sequel to The Detective, and starred an old police detective ...
The Detective by Roderick Thorp
17 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Die Hard is based on the novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp. But Nothing Lasts Forever was itself a sequel to The Detective, a story of a ...
Octopussy by Ian Fleming
30 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Brock is back to review the final Ian Fleming James Bond short story from the Octopussy and The Living Daylights collection. As part of James Bond's 5...
The Man With the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming
23 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
James Bond was presumed dead after the Blofeld trilogy ends, and before Fleming could revive the spy that brought him fame the author himself died. P...
You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming
16 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Brock is back to complete Books & Nachos' reviews of Ian Fleming's original James Bond prose stories, this time looking at the final book in the so-ca...
Property of a Lady and 007 in New York by Ian Fleming
09 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Brock goes back to the last Ian Fleming James Bond book ever released to review two more short stories from the Octopussy and The Living Daylights col...
On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming
02 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
James Bond is back, as is our book reviewer Brock, continuing his reviews of Ian Fleming's works. As part of James Bond's 50th Anniversary, the podca...
The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming
26 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
James Bond in a hard boiled detective story with a femme fatale and an enemy with metal teeth--it's all in The Spy Who Loved Me, an original novel by ...
The Living Daylights by Ian Fleming
19 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
The book title is Octopussy (or sometimes Octopussy and The Living Daylights) but in this Ian Fleming book is actually a collection of short stories. ...
Thunderball by Ian Fleming
12 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
It's a Bond story that started as a screenplay, then became a book, then became a film! But in Ian Fleming's eighth Bond novel such Bond film staples...
For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming - Part 3
05 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Brock is back finishing his reviews of Ian Fleming's James Bond short stories collected in the book For Your Eyes Only. As part of James Bond's 50th ...
For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming - Part 2
28 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Brock is back continuing his reviews of Ian Fleming's James Bond short stories collected in the book For Your Eyes Only. As part of James Bond's 50th...
For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming - Part 1
21 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
In addition to the successful novel series, Ian Fleming also wrote several short stories telling tales of the British Agent. As part of James Bond's ...
Goldfinger by Ian Fleming
14 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Goldfinger, the third James Bond film, is often seen as the quintessential Bond movie--the one where all the elements came together to form the James ...
Dr. No by Ian Fleming
07 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Most people were introduced to James Bond in Dr. No, the first Bond feature film. However, Dr. No was Ian Fleming's sixth Bond novel, picking up afte...
From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming
31 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Bond has stopped several evil plots in his first four novels, and now the Russian General of SMERSH wants revenge for Bond's meddling. They not only ...
Diamonds are Forever by Ian Fleming
24 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
In Bond's fourth literary outing, the spy has to come to the states to take on a group of American gangsters. If that sounds beneath Bond, he agrees ...
Moonraker by Ian Fleming
17 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Moonraker, the James Bond film, is a black mark on 007's film history--a shameless Star Wars rip-off that takes Bond to the final frontier. But in th...
Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming
10 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
James Bond versus Mister Big, the Voodoo Baron of Death. This fight is a classic part of the Bond movie franchise, but while it was the eighth Bond f...
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
03 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
James Bond first appeared not in Dr. No, but in Casino Royale, Ian Fleming's novel about a British spy on a mission to beat a Russian in a game of car...
Death Dealt the Hand by John E. Bailor
01 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
When special agent Trevor Byrne investigates the hasty approval of an experimental AIDS cure, he uncovers a plot by genetics lab DNAY to unleash a dea...
Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore
11 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Spoiler Alert! This podcast discusses many key elements of Batman: The Killing Joke. The Killing Joke, published in 1988, was a hit among comic fans...
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
02 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
H.G. Wells saw the future of modern warfare when he imagined meteor showers bringing bellicose Martian tripods down upon unsuspecting Victorian Englan...
Batman: Year One by Frank Miller
31 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Spoiler Alert! This podcast discusses many key elements of Batman: Year One and Batman: Year Two. After DC had a Crisis on Infinite Earths it was ti...
E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet by William Kotzwinkle
29 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Steven Spielberg swore he'd never film a follow-up to his most popular and personal work - the 1982 sci-fi fantasy E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. But in...
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
24 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Spoiler Alert! This podcast discusses many key elements of The Dark Knight Returns and The Dark Knight Strikes Again. Batman was a campy comic chara...
Aliens: Female War
18 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
As a companion to the current NowPlayingPodcast.com ALIEN donation drive, Stuart In LA takes fans of the franchise into the extended universe of the...
Aliens: Nightmare Asylum by Steve Perry
09 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
As a companion to the current NowPlayingPodcast.com ALIEN donation drive, Stuart In LA takes fans of the franchise into the extended universe of the c...
Aliens: Earth Hive by Steve Perry
03 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
As a companion to the current NowPlayingPodcast.com ALIEN donation drive, Stuart In LA takes fans of the franchise into the extended universe of the c...
My Incredible Life as the Hulk by Lou Ferrigno
29 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Despite three feature films and fifty years of comics, to many people the words "The Incredible Hulk" recall a vivid memory of Lou Ferrigno fully made...
Hannibal Rising
01 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Prepare the Chianti and fava beans. Books and Nachos is having a month long meal with author Thomas Harris and his seminal creation Dr. Hannibal Lecte...
Hannibal
19 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Prepare the Chianti and fava beans. Books and Nachos is having a month long meal with author Thomas Harris and his seminal creation Dr. Hannibal Lecte...
Who Goes There?
15 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
SomeTHING awoke in our collective imagination when science fiction writer John W Campbell posed the question "Who Goes There?" in his 1938 novella abo...
Silence of the Lambs
11 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Prepare the Chianti and fava beans. Books and Nachos is having a month long meal with author Thomas Harris and his seminal creation Dr. Hannibal Lecte...
Red Dragon
05 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Prepare the Chianti and fava beans. Books and Nachos is having a month long meal with author Thomas Harris and his seminal creation Dr. Hannibal Lecte...
Jaws: The Revenge by Hank Searls
22 Apr 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Under the best of circumstances, novelizations of films add a bit of depth to a screenplay, but anyone who's seen the film Jaws: The Revenge knows the...
Healers and Hunters (WARS: The Battle of Phobos - Earthers, Part 1 of 3) by Nathan P. Butler
13 Apr 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In 2004 Decipher Trading Cards launched the WARS Card Game, a game based on their previous Star Wars TCG. With a background story written in part by M...
Jaws by Peter Benchley
30 Mar 2011
Contributed by Lukas
You've seen the movie, but have you read the bestselling book of Jaws? While many things are similar, the differences may surprise you! In partner...
The Adjustment Team
05 Mar 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In partnership with Now Playing's retrospective of all Philip K Dick screen adaptations, Books & Nachos explores the source material that inspired t...
The Golden Man
26 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In partnership with Now Playing's retrospective of all Philip K Dick screen adaptations, Books & Nachos explores the source material that inspired the...
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick
19 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In partnership with Now Playing's retrospective of all Philip K Dick screen adaptations, Books & Nachos explores the source material that inspired the...
Paycheck by Philip K Dick
12 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In partnership with Now Playing's retrospective of all Philip K Dick screen adaptations, Books & Nachos explores the source material that inspired the...
Minority Report by Philip K Dick
05 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
\In partnership with Now Playing's retrospective of all Philip K Dick screen adaptations, Books & Nachos explores the source material that inspired th...
Impostor by Philip K Dick
28 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In partnership with Now Playing's retrospective of all Philip K Dick screen adaptations, Books & Nachos explores the source material that inspired the...
Second Variety by Philip K Dick
21 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In partnership with Now Playing's retrospective of all Philip K Dick screen adaptations, Books & Nachos explores the source material that inspired the...
We Can Remember It For You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick
14 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In partnership with Now Playing's retrospective of all Philip K Dick screen adaptations, Books & Nachos explores the source material that inspired the...
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
10 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In partnership with Now Playing's retrospective of all Philip K Dick screen adaptations, Books & Nachos explores the source material that inspired the...
An Interview with David Morrell
26 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Finishing our series looking back at the Rambo novels and novelizations, Arnie sits down with author David Morrell. Morrell wrote First Blood over a d...
Rambo 3 by David Morrell
19 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Books & Nachos, we look at Rambo 3, written by David Morrell, author of the original Rambo novel First Blood. The film was a financial ...
Rambo - First Blood Part 2 by David Morrell
12 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Rambo made his first appearance in 1972 in David Morrell's novel First Blood, which was then adapted into a film. The film was a huge success, and so ...
First Blood by David Morell
05 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Books & Nachos' sister podcast, Now Playing, is spending November reviewing all of the Rambo films, so Books & Nachos decided to look back at Rambo's ...
George Lucas's Blockbusting edited by Alex Ben Block and Lucy Autrey Wilson
10 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
George Lucas's Blockbusting may sound like a book chronicling George Lucas' rise to box office dominance, first through his Star Wars films, and then ...
Indiana Jones and the Army of the Dead by Steve Perry
18 Nov 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Indiana Jones is back! With the revival of the Indiana Jones franchise in 2008 with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, now the origin...
No Doors No Windows by Joe Schreiber
26 Oct 2009
Contributed by Lukas
It's a house that has no right angles, walls meeting floors at curves, and may just be haunted in Joe Screiber's latest horror novel "No Doors No Wind...
Infected by Scott Sigler
23 Oct 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Avid podcaster Scott Sigler has become a novelist. Now his novels are the subject of a podcast. Is that recursive, ironic, or just a coincidence? ...
Iron Man: Femmes Fatales by Robert Greenberger
19 Oct 2009
Contributed by Lukas
He Is...IRON MAN. This novelized version of the Marvel Comics superhero pits him against international terrorist group HYDRA headed by the mysteriou...
A Walk Through the Book of Matthew Youth Style
12 Oct 2009
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, we review the devotional guide A Walk Through the Book of Matthew Youth Style by Pastor Jamie Estes, including an interview with the ...
Under the Dome by Stephen King
19 Feb 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen King's latest work, Under the Dome, is his third longest novel to date, bested in page count only by his classic works The Stand and It. Does ...