Hey, everyone. This is 3752 pages. We'll never get back. I am Michael J. Nelson, along with Connor

Lestoka. This is the podcast where we read through books that

we're probably not going to like. Why would anyone undertake such madness, you ask? I don't know.

Connor, why do we do this? Because it's there. Because the bad books are there. And they're not going

away. So we need to help people get through them. And boy, this is a doozy of a bad book. Well, in fairness, we're not finished with it. Maybe he wraps it up and we all at the end go, we were wrong. We're sorry, Sir Bram. I assume he's a sir. Did we find that out? Oh, man, I guess he's got to be, but he is Irish. Are they allowed to be sirs? I'm sure they have some order, right?

You can be a knight in a bunch of different orders, I think.

If you're Olivier or something, you have a bunch of, it's almost like Dwight David Thrasch

at that point.

You have a bunch of titles that you're a knight in.

Right.

So the order of the borderline unreadable novellas might have inducted him too.

Yes.

Well, I had a good experience this week.

On Wednesday night, we were chatting.

We were texting as the Nats made it to the NLCS for the first time, dramatic event.

And so that was in L.A.

So the game started late and ended even later for the East Coast.

And it was one of those games that was incredibly dramatic.

And, you know, I realized I was not going to be able to fall asleep, even though it was

quite late afterwards.

So I went on Amazon.

This was the sort of thing that like the next morning, I was like, oh, right.

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