Episode 19 – The Eye of Argon

372 Pages We'll Never Get Back

Arts, Books, Comedy

4.8 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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We teased it in our last episode, but we’re finally ready to reveal to you: our next book is called The Eye of Argon. We figured, what could possibly carry the torch of Ernest Cline’s terrible books, and decided: how about a typo-riddled fantasy novella written five decades ago by a sixteen year old who … Continue reading "Episode 19 – The Eye of Argon"

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready?
0:18.4	Connor, are you ready?
0:20.0	I'm ready, baby.
0:24.4	This is exciting. How in the world,
0:32.4	Connor, Conor, Conor, Lestoka. I'm Mike Nelson, by the way. This is 372 pages. We'll never get back.
0:39.9	And what are we doing, Connor? We're starting our third ever book, the long-awaited follow-up. First, there was Ready Player 1, then there was Armada, two best-selling New York Times, million-selling books.
0:47.5	Best Book of the Year on many people's lists. Acclaimed, then well, not so acclaimed, but
0:53.9	movie rights sold seven figures uh just
0:58.4	translated into 48 different languages i'm sure how do you how do you follow up those books like
1:06.2	what would translate well to this podcast to follow those books up.
1:10.9	We took some suggestions.
1:12.6	We thought about it a long time.
1:15.4	We went to our separate sort of like those Star Wars beehive caves that Luke was in.
1:23.1	And we just sat with ourselves and our thoughts.
1:26.2	Yes.
1:26.5	Because we knew the importance, the monumental importance of how we made this choice.
1:32.8	I don't know.
1:33.8	I just started to read and chant, and suddenly it hit me.
1:41.3	And it hit you, what hit you?
1:44.3	The name of the next book to do?
1:45.7	Yes.
1:46.7	Oh, all right.
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