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Greetings, greetings, world! Welcome to the 'Read, Watch, or DNF' podcast, your ultimate destination for all things books, booze, and unforgettable adaptations. We're your hosts, the witty Mel B. and the fabulous Jackie D. 🎙️📚🎬
I know what you're thinking: "Another book and movie podcast? Seriously?" But hold on, bestie, because we're not your run-of-the-mill literary or cinematic review show. We're the daring explorers of storytelling, venturing into the dog-eared pages of beloved novels and the silver screen, uncovering the collisions, contrasts, and even conspiracies that breathe life into stories.
Sporadically and drunkenly, we embark on literary adventures, exploring classics, best-sellers, and hidden gems. Then, we'll hop through time to their cinematic counterparts. Get ready to dissect plotlines, debate discrepancies, and raise a toast to the enchantment when tales spring to life on the silver screen. We'll even dive into the mystery of why characters sometimes look different in our minds than in the movies and why certain book scenes don't make the final cut.
So, this podcast is for you whether you're a bibliophile, cinephile, or just someone who loves a good chat over drinks. Grab your popcorn and your cocktail. Put on your reading glasses, and buckle up for a wild designated driver-ride.
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In this week's episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we take a broomstick ride to Long Island to unravel the not-so-practical, not-so-magical misfortunes of a family plagued by 200+ years of generational trauma. Join us as we dive into Alice Hoffman's "Practical Magic" and its equally enchanting 1998 screen adaptation. Let's separate fact from fiction, shall we? ✨🧙♀️
In this week's episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we embark on an extraterrestrial adventure to a lighthouse through a plasma wall with a squad of trigger-happy ladies. Why? Because we bumped uglies with our husband's body snatcher! Join us as we delve into Jeff VanderMeer's eco-horror masterpiece, "Annihilation," and its equally mind-bending 2018 film adaptation.
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we kick-off spooky month by booking a bed and breakfast stay in a classic story with a classic trope in Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and the 2018 Netflix adaptation of the same name.And we ask the question, did the decision to adapt the story into a family dynamic drive the success of this series, or do people just love haunted houses?Also, can we take a moment to just respect the savagery of Shirley Jackson to write queer characters into her work in the 1950s!
WE ARE BACK!!!On this week's episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we take on a classic, but not the archaic kind, the 1973 kind and we travel the country of Florin in William Goldman’s The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure and the movie simply titled The Princess Bride.
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we travel back in time with My Chemical Romance and then back agaIn to save the world (or maybe just that city, we don’t actually know) from an apocalypse that was cause by a glass eye?? In Gerard Way & Gabriel Ba’s Umbrella Academy: The Apocalypse Volume and the 2019 Netflix original adaption,
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we travel back in time to 1988 and dance through its greatest hits whilst trying to remove a mean girl demon from our bestie in Grady Hendrix’s horror novel My Best Friend’s Exorcism and its Amazon Prime Video film adaptation with the same name. And we ask the question, are we as ride or die as Abby & GretchenAlso, What the actual fuck is slave day??? And why was it a thing in 1988?
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we head over to the Hudson Valley in search of a headless horseman among generational myths and modern greed in Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and its 1999 screen adaptation Sleepy Hollow.And we ask the question, what actually makes a good adaptation?Also, what happened to Christina Ricci’s eyebrows?
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we close out our month of Netflix original adaptations with young reader’s take on the origin story of classic fairytales in Soman Chainani’s book 1 of his School for Good and Evil series. And we ask the question; when adaptations alter the relationship between major characters, does it matter which format it’s adapted to; ig. Movie vs series?Also,.”You can’t marry a man you just met”
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we take a stroll through Harlem in a monotone, most likely opium fueled, haze in Nella Larsen's Passing and the 2021 Netflix original adaptation of the same name. And we ask the question, is it possible for an adaptation to be too much like the book?Also, the black & white…we see what you did there.
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we seriously ponder life choices as we discuss Jenny Han’s to all the boys I’ve loved before and the 2018 Netflix original adaptation of the same name. We ask the question ? Why, just why?Also, I’m almost certain this book gave me ptsd.
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we enlist to go to the front line of the Great War, and slum it in the trenches with a group of shell shocked soldiers in Erich Maria Remarque’s novel All Quiet on the Western Front, and the new Netflix original adaption of the same name? And we ask the question; is it “wrong” to adapt literary fiction as genre?Also, thank you for not showing the horses IYKYK
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we take a puddle jumper from London to Paris and go dress shopping with a hard working widow in Paul Gallico’s Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris and its 2022 film adaptation of the same name. And we ask the question; how da fuq does 120 pages of nothing translate into a 2+ hour movie?Also, how did that dress fit Mrs. Harris and Pamela…?
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we travel at nearly 200mph, from Tokyo to Morioka, on a Shinkansen with some unhinged passengers in Kotaro Isaka’s Bullet Train, and the 2022 adaptation of the same name. We ask the question,does Thomas the Tank Engine really hold all the answers to questions we have in life?Also, what happened to Granny Gangsta?
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we look for puppies in the back of a black van and spend some time with a rotary phone in Joe Hill’s short story The Black Phone and its 2022 film adaptation of the same name. And we ask the question - do short stories make for better source material?Also, little Gwen in this movie is my spirit animal.
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we head on down to the marshes of North Carolina with Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing and the 2022 adaptation of the same name, and we ask the question, why are modern ‘romances’ marketed as empowered women really just case studies in stockholm syndrome?Also, fuck Chase, but double fuck Tate?
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we get in the holiday spirit with the ultimate Yuletide classic; A Christmas Carol by the OG Charles Dickens and the 1988 film adaptation - or more so a modern retelling - Scrooged with the one and only Bill Murray. And we ask the question; when does an adaptation cross that magical threshold to become, instead, a retelling?
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we get out of solitary long enough to tunnel through the wall of maximum security prison in Stephen King’s novella “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” and its 1994 film adaptation The Shawshank Redemption - and we ask the question; did Hollywood’s casting improve Andy and Red?Also,how long would it take to tunnel through a cement wall by hand?
On this week's episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we travel down the train tracks of adolescence with a group of pre-teen boys to find a dead body, in Stephen King's novella The Body and it's 1986 film adaptation Stand By Me.
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF - we travel to 18th century New Orleans with a front row seat for the epitome of homosexual vampire angst in Anne Rice’s Two Men and a Baby…sorry I mean Interview With the Vampire and its star studded 1994 film adaptation of the same name. And we ask the question; is Hollywood’s aging up of Claudia less or more cringe?Also, older me realizes that I now prefer the less moody, and less whiny, yet holder of significantly more red flags Lestat.
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we hop on the orange line and head into Washington DC to examine the pit of despair that is humanity with William Peter Blatty’s novel The Exorcist and the 1973 film adaptation of the same name. And ask the question: Did Hollywood focus too much on shocking special effects and not enough on the story?Also, in the 70s did we really believe poltergeists were science? But demons were ridiculous…
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