Episode 090 - Adventure Fiction

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This month we’re discussing Adventure Fiction! We talk about bears (and bear fighting), spies, secret tunnels, robots, survival, thrillers, male romance, geese, pirates, stolen smartphones, shipwrecks, and more!

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In this episode

Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards | Robert Hamaker

Things We Read

• The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
• • There are ten sequels to this book! And spin-offs!
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• • Muppet Treasure Island - Professional Pirate (featuring Tim Curry)
• The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
• • Robinsonade (Wikipedia)
• Pirates! by Celia Rees
• The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
• The Anomaly by Michael Rutger
• • Matthew forgot this bit of the book that he also really hates:
  • • “We were guaranteed a spread in Ancient American magazine, and maybe a mention in Obscure Academic Quarterly About Indigenous Peoples (circulation: 151 copies worldwide, hidden in college libraries where no one under the age of forty goes expect to make out).”
• The Apocalypse Troll by David Weber
• Celtic Empire by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler
• • Dirk Pitt (Wikipedia)
  • Sahara (2005 film) (Wikipedia)
  • The photo that RJ shared with everyone
• Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia
• • Rick Riordan Presents (Wikipedia)
  • John Henry (folklore) (Wikipedia)
  • Steel (John Henry Irons) (Wikipedia)

Can RJ find a book in this genre by a trans author?

• Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg

Other Media We Mention

• You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane
• Conan the Barbarian (Wikipedia)
• The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope Hawkins (Wikipedia)
• The Shadow (Wikipedia)
• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (Wikipedia)
• Genreflecting: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests by Diana Tixier Herald, Wayne A. Wiegand
• The Executioner (Wikipedia)
• Deathlands (Wikipedia)
• The Young Indiana Jones series of kids books
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
• Ghost Twins Series by Dian Curtis Regan
• The Boxcar Children (Wikipedia)
• My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
• Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
• The Talking Earth by Jean Craighead George
• The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
• The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher (Wikipedia)
• Heinlein juveniles (Wikipedia)
• Indiana Jones (franchise) (Wikipedia)
• Tomb Raider (Wikipedia)
• Uncharted (Wikipedia)
• Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 059 - Food and Cooking
• Episode 084 - Political Non-Fiction
• Posts from the AI Weirdness blog tagged as “recipes”
• Something Something Soup Something (the “soup or not soup” game)
• "The Lectores Who Read to Cuba's Cigar Rollers"
• Jack London (Wikipedia)
• Adventure fiction (Wikipedia)

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Join us again on Tuesday, December 17th for our Best of 2019 episode!

Then on Tuesday, January 7th we’ll be talking about the non-fiction genre of Art!