Hey everyone.

This story is a science fiction techno-thriller,

Who-Dunit?

Or what-done-it?

That takes place on the bottom of the ocean.

Today's book is Titanic 2.

Titanic with a vengeance.

Now it's Sphere by Michael Crichton.

And this is the book pile.

A comedy podcast about the best of books and the worst of books.

If this is your first time on the podcast, welcome.

I'm Kellyn Ersk, and I'm a comic, a father, and I've always said that a sphere is just the poor man's dodecahedron.

That's what we call in the biz a smart joke, Dave.

And I'm David Vance.

Kellan as a kid, I loved reading, but I also got guilty if I read a book that would

horrify my mom.

So as a tween, I think I read just the first chapter of every Michael Crichton book.

I'm not joking.

I've only read the first chapter of Congo, the Andromeda Strain,

State of Fear, Prey, and Rising Sun. I don't even know what you would feel guilty about

and Rising Sun. I feel like, I don't know, maybe someone gets stabbed in a skyscraper. Oh,

no, that book is the first time I learned at too young and age

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