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Ch 14 of 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens

25 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We're 14 chapters into this book and FINALLY someone is NICE to David. Mrs. Betsy goes off on the Murdstones and it's about damn time.The romance corn...

Ch 13 of 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens

21 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

David heads to Dover! Of course he has to sell most of his clothes and sleep on haystacks, but that's just normal for travel. He finally finds his Aun...

Ch 12 of 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens

17 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

David says goodbye to the Micawber family, now free of debt, who've decided to head to the heartland.He decides to run away from the bottle factory an...

Ch 11 of 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens

15 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

David is forced into child-labor at Mr. Murdstones liquor factory. He's set up to live in a house with a sweet family who have no money and have to se...

Ch 10 of 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens

11 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

After the funeral the Murdstone's fire Peggoty then let David go to Yarmouth to get creepy on Emily. Mr Barkis also gets creepy on Peggoty by floating...

Ch 9 of 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens

04 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

David finds out on his birthday that his mom is sick. Like, real, real sick. So sick she's dead. Also? The baby died too.The romance corner book this ...

Ch 8 of 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens

02 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

David is home for the holidays and finds out his mom has a new baby. After hearing that the carriage guy has the hots for Peggotty, she suddenly start...

Ch 7 of 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens

28 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

School is on! and Mr. Creakle is beating kids like crazy. Traddles keeps getting blamed for kid-crimes that he didn't commit, but he won't rat anyone ...

Ch 6 of 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens

26 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

David finally meets the kids at his school. After some under-age drinking and gossip about the teachers, he watches his roommate sleep.Go on, read it ...

Ch 5 of 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens

21 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Peggoty has become a Copperfield Stan while David travels to his new school. Even though none of the kids are there yet- the school staff make him wea...

Ch 4 of 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens

14 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

David's return home sucks. His new dad is creepy and is all about "firmness". He has his sister live with them, so now there's two people slumming off...

Ch 3 of 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens

12 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

David gets to go see Peggotty's family who live in a boat. The uncle had a drinking problem, but that doesn't stop David from hitting on his daughter....

Ch 2 of 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens

07 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mom's new boyfriend decides to spend time with David... by bringing him to work. And it sucks. Mom gets worked into a lather with every compliment and...

Ch 1 of 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens

05 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

David's mom has to entertain his creepy aunt, his nanny has been hiding her boy in the house, and he was supposed to be a girl. We're off to a strong ...

Part 5 of 'Life and Adventures of Santa Claus' by Frank Baum

24 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Like any Christmas miracle, I wrap up something I slowly learn to hate just in time for the holidays.Go on, read it for yourself:https://bookshop.org/...

Part 4 of 'Life and Adventures of Santa Claus' by Frank Baum

17 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This book will never end. I thought that it would be a 'fun' and 'quick read'. But nope. Frank Baum has written an epic about Santa Claus that I'm sur...

Part 3 of 'Life and Adventures of Santa Claus' by Frank Baum

10 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Claus starts a war between immortals and doesn't even notice because he's too busy thinking about... other people's kids. Then he uses the reindeer's ...

Part 2 of 'Life and Adventures of Santa Claus' by Frank Baum

07 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Like a trust-fund kid, Claus sets out on his own but his mom takes care of everything for him- even down to making his dinner every night. That leaves...

'Life and Adventures of Santa Claus' by Frank Baum

03 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Where this author makes up a fake origin story for a real man that died in 1942 during a bombing over France. It's highly offensive, especially since ...

'The Master Cat: Or, Puss in Boots' from the Blue Fairy Book

30 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

There is a cat giving away his satanic nature by walking around on it's hind legs, killing with pleasure and threatening everyone around him and NO ON...

'Thanksgiving at Todd's Asylum' by Winthrop Packard from 'The Children's Book of Thanksgiving Stories'

26 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A group of people agree to live together in a house, though none are really 'crazy' or in need of professional help. So I have no idea why it is calle...

'Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper' from the Blue Fairy Book

23 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Falling in love is easy when you only care about looks, lucky for this lady she had a god-mother who doesn't see any problems with that.Go on, read it...

'Rumpelstiltzkin & Why the Sea is Salt' from the Blue Fairy Book

19 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The first story, about a weird man who just wants a kid. The second, another story about a dumb person who has unlimited power and doesn't know how to...

'Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp' from the Blue Fairy Book

16 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A creepy kid stumbles on two items that bring him unlimited wishes. Of course he keeps forgetting that and spends the rest of the story wasting his ow...

'The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was' from the Blue Fairy Book

14 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Another episode where I read fairy tales like a crabby uncle. This one, about a boy who wants to feel fear so he lights fires and kills his way toward...

‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and ‘The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood’ from the Blue Fairy Book

12 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

One story ends pretty abruptly, but that’s how it goes when the protagonist is murdered. The other involves marrying your grandma. I don’t even ca...

‘East of the Sun and West of the Moon’ from the Blue Fairy Book

09 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What do you do if you’re poor as hell, but have a beautiful daughter? Sell her off to a white bear for money.Go on, read it for yourself:https://boo...

‘The Yellow Dwarf’ from the Blue Fairy Book

05 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

You know what takes a fairy tale from average to ‘top-shelf’? A yellow dwarf sitting in a tree eating oranges. Everyone dies in the end.Go on, rea...

‘The Bronze Ring’ and ‘Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess’ from the Blue Fairy Book

02 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

‘The Bronze Ring’ is the story of hubris. ‘Prince Hyacinth…’ is about how you should hope you’re never born ugly.Go on, read it for yourse...

‘The Judge's House’ by Bram Stoker

31 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

When a student’s idea of a ‘fun vacation’ is to just to be alone in an empty house so he can study- it’s about a fun as you’d expect. Go on,...

‘The Signal-Man’ by Charles Dickens

30 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The story of two men who’s love is cut short by a spectral warning. Go on, read it for yourself:https://bookshop.org/books/the-haunted-looking-glass...

‘The Body-Snatcher’ by Robert Louis Stevenson

29 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Terror comes in all guises. Even in the form of a clerical error. Go on, read it for yourself:https://bookshop.org/books/the-haunted-looking-glass/97...

‘Man-Size in Marble’ by E. Nesbit

28 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

If you give your wife a disturbing pet-name like, “my pussy” you know the story isn’t going to turn out good. Go on, read it for yourself:https:...

‘The Dream Woman’ by Wilkie Collins

26 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

You’d think that when you survive the murder attempt you dreamed about earlier you’d be done, but nope. Go on, read it for yourself:https://books...

‘Casting the Runes’ by M.R. James

23 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Another good story that takes forever to get to the point… How would I have known that ‘October barrage’ would be the hardest thing ever. Go on,...

‘The Thirteenth Tree’ by R.H. Malden

21 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The mystery of a murder that is kinda solved by entering the exciting world of paperwork. A witch is involved, though, only barely. Go on, read it for...

‘The Empty House' by Algernon Blackwood

20 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Finally, an actual scary ghost story. No weird crap tacked on at the end. Just two people walking into a haunted house, seeing some scary stuff, then ...

‘August Heat' by W.F. Harvey

19 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This author really hates overweight men. That is pretty clear. And he thinks bible-reading-wives are boring as hell. Put it all together and you have ...

‘A Visitor from Down Under' by L.P. Hartley

18 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A story of revenge by some kind of... Ghost? Or something? I read the whole thing and couldn't make any sense of it. Maybe you canGo on, read it for y...

‘The Shadow of a Shade’ - By Tom Hood

17 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A story of a woman who's being harassed by a man even though she's already got a boyfriend, so the man kills the boyfriend. Then the boyfriend-ghost k...

‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ - By Washington Irving Part 2

14 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

He didn't die. I don't know how else to make that clear. I'm sick of people trying to be all cute with, "Are you sure? Maybe the Headless Horsemen cla...

‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ - By Washington Irving - Part 1

12 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A lanky, skinny-man decides to move in on the only woman in town who is delicious as food, and he loves how all the animals on her dad's farm is just ...

‘The Haunted and the Haunters’ - By Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Part 2

08 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Well, I wrapped this turd up. Basically it was a hypnotist. That's it. But at least I got to hang out with a friend in the middle of the episode and h...

‘The Haunted and the Haunters’ - By Edward Bulwer-Lytton -Part 1

07 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The full title of this is 'The Haunted and the Haunters: Or The House and the Brain' if that doesn't give you a hint at how convoluted this story is g...

‘Fall of the House of Usher’ - By Edgar Allan Poe

05 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

If this story doesn't teach you not to bury your sister when she exists between the dimensions of living and dead, then nothing will.Go on, read it yo...

‘The Old Nurse's Story’ - By George MacDonald

04 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I... I think he dies at the end? I have no idea what happened at the end besides a long speech about how "life is a dream" or something.Go on, read it...

‘The Outrage - a True Story’ - By Aleksandr Kuprin

28 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A group of thieves show up to a council meeting. And that's about it. It pretty much has no point. It's ok to skip this episode.Go on, read it yoursel...

‘The Queen of Spades’ - By Alexsandr S. Pushkin

24 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Never trust a ghost, especially if you’re the one who killed them. Even more especially if they couldn’t understand basic fashion while they were ...

‘The Signal’ - By Vsevolod M. Garshin

21 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

When a story is depressing as hell in the first page and a half- you wouldn’t think it would get any worse. But it does.Go on, read it yourself: htt...

‘The District Doctor’ by Ivan S. Turgenev

17 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The best way to pick up women is when they’re dying and you’re the only doctor for miles.Go on, read it yourself: https://bookshop.org/books/best-...

‘Her Lover’ by Maxim Gorky

14 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The story of an unattractive woman who is lonely, but it doesn’t matter since she suddenly winds up in prison for no reason and dies. Go on, read it...

‘One Autumn Night’ by Maxim Gorky

07 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Another week, another depressing Russian short story. This one about a man who spends the night homeless, and gets hot kisses from a homeless lady.Go ...

‘God Sees the Truth, But Waits’ by Leo N. Tolstoy

03 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

More depressing Russian stories- This one about a man who was wrongfully imprisoned for murder. Does he get out? Nope. He dies. I’m just telling you...

'Lazarus’ by Leonid Andreyev

31 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I know what kind of books to read for every season, but not in this weird period when summer ends and school starts. So you get a really depressing st...

'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain: Chapters 33 - conclusion

27 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The story wraps up where both Tom and Huck are rich- and no one brings up the fact that it’s stolen money and the police should be called to return ...

'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain: Chapter 31 - 32

24 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The kids escape the cave! Weirdly they run into Joe down there and Tom is pretty casual about it. Go on, read it yourself: https://bookshop.org/books/...

'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain: Chapter 28 - 30

22 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The kids keep an eye on the “spaniard” and “Injun Joe” for a few days then Becky Thatcher comes back! So Tom pretty much forgets about the mur...

'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain: Chapter 26 & 27

18 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

While in the old, haunted house- the fella’s find Joe and “the dirty spaniard” are hiding out there. They also have a ton of money they want to ...

'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain: Chapter 25

16 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For no reason Tom suddenly decided to start looking for buried treasure. No one is available except for his ‘slummy’ friend, Huck. Who, again, say...

'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain: Chapters 23 & 24

11 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The boys feel guilty about ‘ol Muff. They visit him at his prison window again and he… he touches their faces. Ugh. Tom feels so guilty that he fi...

'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain: Chapters 21 & 22

08 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

There’s a whole thing about a school performance involving poetry, then a list of events the town has through the summer. Doesn’t really tie in wi...

'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain: Chapters 19 & 20

03 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Tom gets called out for lying (again). But thanks to his penchant for kissing on the lips, he is still ok. And he gets Thatcher to love him again. Thi...

'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain: Chapters 17 & 18

30 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The guys decide to go home with their secret plan. It works like a charm and soon all three are the talk of the town after they show up at their own f...

'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain: Chapters 15 & 16

26 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The fellas start to get homesick. Tom took off to spy on his aunt and found out that their parents think they’re all dead, which is a dream come tru...

'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain: Chapters 13 & 14

23 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Lucky for tom, when he decides to live an ‘outlaw life’ he’s got lowly friends to be there with him. They try to tough it out, until Tom sneaks ...

'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain: Chapters 11 & 12

20 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Guilt is a powerful force- the same guilt that guides a boy into a world of pain also guides a middle-aged man to wear the same underwear for 4 days.G...

'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain: Chapter 9 & 10

17 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Racial Stereotypes abound in chapter 9 as ‘Injun Joe’ kills a man. And as Tom and Huck are on the run, they still manages to drop the n-word. And ...

'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain: Chapter 8

13 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

When the stress of being engaged is too much, Tom turns to pagan rituals and fantasy.Go on, read it yourself: https://bookshop.org/books/the-adventure...

'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain: Chapter 7

10 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

If a small boy asks a small girl to get engaged, does anyone in pre-civil war Mississippi notice? Find out in today’s episode.Go on, read it yoursel...

'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain: Chapter 6

06 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We Learn about Huck Finn, who is considered the town low-life. Though I don’t see why. Anyone who walks around with a dead cat seems fine to me. We ...

'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain: Chapter 5

02 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Not a lot happens. Just a bored kid in church getting pinched by pinch bugs. Though, since nothing carries over from chapter to chapter- I’m beginni...

'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain: Chapter 4

29 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I visited a friend in another city, and I can’t make it tie into an episode where Tom Sawyer lied his way into a brand new bible.Go on, read it your...

'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain: Chapter 3

25 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Covid still exists, weirdly enough. And this chapter teaches you that you can use it to fake your own death. Though, you might get a bed pan's "water"...

'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain: Chapter 2

22 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A fathers day lesson on how kids just don't care about you. They don't care about you at all. They'll go out of their way to hurt you through lies and...

'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain: Chapter 1

18 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I decide to spend my summer reading a classic story about young boys scrappin' and yellin'. I also begin the long journey of navigating a minefield of...

'The Six Sillies' 'The Ratcatcher' from The Red Fairybook

11 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

One story about appreciating the morons you live with by comparing them to even worse morons. And another about why you should never screw over a free...

'Qubit Slip' by William Highsmith

05 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A story about the failure of quantim computing... because it has 'down-time' like the weather? Oh well.Also: I get to fight with a bug who kept crawli...

Part 2 of 'Day of the Moron' by H. Beam Piper

01 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Took a break during the protests in my city before recording this episode. I was hoping that the story would be a nice break, but nope. The hero of ou...

'Day of the Moron' by H. Beam Piper

25 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

An opinionated and sexist jerk decides to make all his employees take an intelligence test. Because he's convinced 'morons are going to blow the build...

'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

21 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This is that last book that anyone who is going insane from quarentine should ever read. But I did.Go on, read it yourself:https://bookshop.org/books/...

The Injudicious Prayers of Pombo the Idolater - by Lord Dunsany

18 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We learn about an idolater who will do whatever it takes to get the gods to listen to his prayer... Just like Michael Jordan.Go on, read it yourself: ...

'The Voice of Death' by Andrew Lang

14 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A man finds a town where people only die when they hear a voice calling their name- and somehow he manages to ruin it. Go on, read it yourself:https:/...

'Snowdrop' by Andrew Lang

07 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I read a weird, proto-Snow White story, where only one dwarf seems self-aware and the witch dies in iron dancing shoes. Also, my love of Josh Gad died...

'The Death of Koschei the Deathless' by Andrew Lang

03 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

If you're powerful enough to keep a deathless man in your closet, why can't you do it again when you boyfriend frees him?Also, there's a Babba Yaga ap...

'All In The Mind' by Gene L. Henderson

30 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Using the power of being a brain in a vat to destroy your enemies. Go on, read it yourself:https://www.feedbooks.com/book/4808/all-in-the-mindGo liste...

'Arson Plus' by Samuel Dashiell Hammett

23 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A scrappy gum-shoe figures out a crime. Nothing matters anymore.Go on, read it yourself:https://www.feedbooks.com/book/3474/arson-plusVisit https://nu...

'Gods of the North' by Robert Ervin Howard

20 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What do you do when you're the sole survivor of a bloody battle? Chase after women. Go on, read it yourself: https://www.feedbooks.com/book/1628/gods-...

'Hunted Down' by Charles Dickens

16 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What starts out as an annoying customer turns into a game of cat-and-mouse.Go on, read it yourself:https://www.feedbooks.com/book/696/hunted-downVisit...

'BR02B' by Kurt Vonnegut

12 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In the future, when you have a baby in a 1/1 population system the watch-word is 'sacrafice'.Go on, read it yourself:https://www.feedbooks.com/book/91...

'In the Year 2889' by Jules Verne

09 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

You ever want to see how a wealthy, media mogul lives in the future? Yeah, me too. Turns out? Living in a studio apartment is the coolest thing about ...

'The Specialist’s Hat' by Kelly Link

05 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I read a really good short story about two girls living in a haunted house, then found out that Levar Burton beat me too it. He saw how successful I'v...

'Transfer Point' by Anthony Boucher

02 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jerk, Anthony Boucher, tries to go for the brass ring of writing a good time-travel-paradox and fails pretty miserably. Also, my daughter told me I mi...

'A Haunted House' and 'The Mark on the Wall' by Virginia Woolf

28 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Virginia Woolf's stream of consiousness style of writing isn't the best for reading out loud- but at least it's not as sexist at the last book.Go on, ...

'Love Story' by Irvine Cox

26 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A dystopian story about a world where women rule over men, and the most sexist thing I've ever read. It barely even makes sense.Go on, read it yoursel...

'The Eyes Have It' and 'Beyond the Door' by Philip K. Dick

22 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Two short stories from the early days of Phillip K. Dick's career (before he got good)Go on, read it yourself:The Eyes Have ItBeyond the DoorContact:W...

'Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town' by Stephen Leacock - Chapters 11 and 12

16 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A non-eventful conclusion for non-eventful book... but at least it stayed consistently 'cute' all the way through.Go on, read it yourself:Sunshine Ske...

'Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town' by Stephen Leacock - Chapter 10: 'The Great Election in Missinaba County'

15 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Mr. Smith makes a comeback... and it's STILL a boring chapterGo on, read it yourself:Sunshine Sketches of a Little TownContact:WebsiteInstagramTwitter...

'Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town' by Stephen Leacock - Chapter 9: 'The Mariposa Bank Mystery'

13 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

With a chapter title like that, you wouldn't think that it would be a 'hilarious take' on suicide.Go on, read it yourself:Sunshine Sketches of a Littl...

'Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town' by Stephen Leacock - Chapter 8: 'The Fore-ordained Attachment of Zena Pepperleigh and Peter Pupkin'

05 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The story of a young man navigating his way through a minefield of love... Still.Go on, read it yourself:Sunshine Sketches of a Little TownContact:Web...

'Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town' by Stephen Leacock - Chapter 7: 'The Extraordinary Entanglement of Mr. Pupkin'

02 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Go on, read it yourself:Sunshine Sketches of a Little TownContact:WebsiteInstagramTwitterEmail: [email protected]:Intro Music:Two Arabesques...