Hey, everyone. That's the sound that means that this is the podcast where we talk about bad books.

It's 372 pages.

We'll never get back.

Michael J. Nelson here.

And, of course, Conner Lestock is here as well.

Connor, how are you?

Hey, Mike, I'm doing good.

It's a good week in general.

You know, it's Thanksgiving week.

But I'm thankful we get to do this and talk about bad books together, even though, you know, we're never sure about these books before we start them.

No, how can you be?

And this is, I don't know, what do you call this?

This is, I mean, a return to, this is a weird reset. This is the beginning. Explain what

this is and what the book is that we're doing. Well, it's the, it's the first sequel we've ever

done on this podcast and it's the sequel to the first book. It's the sequel to the reason we

started this podcast. The name, 372 pages will never get back. It comes from the page count of Ready Player 1 by Ernest Klein, a book that I saw some

descriptions of and thought that you might enjoy discussing with me.

And here we are 14 books later and many, many hours of discussion of talking about books

that for the most part turned out to be quite bad.

But we had a good time talking about them.

And now we're Ernest Klein today released Ready Player 2, the sequel.

And we're going to be reading along with that one.

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