A 2nd LOOK AT: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets!

The Book Pile

Kellen Erskine and David Vance

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.8 • 598 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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SUMMARY: It's been 3 years so we gave this book "another go" as they say in non-American English speaking countries, like Wizard Land. Today we cover the second Harry Potter, which managed to improve on the original, and is also – no offense – the only book you could get rid of without changing anything important. Don’t be mad, but if the series just went straight from Sorcerer’s Stone to Prisoner of Azkaban, you basically wouldn’t know any better. You’d just have to be like, “By the wa...

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0:00.0	So, Dave, screaming mandrakes play a minor role in this book.
0:04.6	They're basically giant turnips that look like weird babies.
0:07.5	So I'm going to come up with some magical vegetables.
0:11.3	And I would like you to come up with a couple.
0:14.0	And each of us has to describe the vegetable that the other one comes up with.
0:18.2	So why don't you start us off with the swearing snizzblats?
0:27.0	The swearing snizzblats is a type of artichoke that makes a vow of fealty to always serve you,
0:34.1	and then usually what you demand of it is to be eaten.
0:40.3	I love that. I love how disappointing that description is. Like if you were a first year and you
0:48.1	heard of a swearing vegetable and then you see it and it's just very loyal and honorable.
0:55.0	You're like, oh.
0:56.9	It's like the people who went to the movie on the basis of sex
1:00.2	and found out it's about the Supreme Court case.
1:04.5	All right, my magical vegetable is called Frank and Alice Longbottom.
1:09.5	Oh, cool.
1:12.6	Hey, everyone.
1:13.9	Today we discuss a novel that holds the record for the second Harry Potter book ever written.
1:20.1	Also, if you're not a fan of Harry Potter, we hope that this and every episode will just be fun to listen to anyway.
1:27.8	And we also hope that you'll reconsider your opinion.
1:30.8	This is Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling.
1:35.3	And this is the book pile.
1:37.5	This is a podcast about the best of books and the worst of books.
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