166 episodes
Books & Nachos Now Playing Podcast
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4.8 • 39 Ratings
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On Books and Nachos you will find people just like yourself letting you know what to buy and what to skip on your next visit to the bookstore. From sci-fi to horror to nonfiction, Books and Nachos covers it all with a modern pop-culture asthetic other book reviewers lack.
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Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
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Book Review: Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
“If we had happy endings, we’d all be under gravestones now.”
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Book Review: New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
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Now Playing Book Review: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two: The Official Playscript of the Original West End Production
We cannot protect the young from harm. Pain must and will come.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
This week Brock, Stuart, and Arnie graduate from Hogwarts as they complete JK Rowling’s seventh and final Harry Potter novel, The Deathly Hallows. Is the boy wizard ready to lead the fight against a Ministry of Magic overtaken by Death Eaters? Where exactly has Dark Lord Voldemort hidden the last piece of his soul? And what is the real reason Professor Snape hates Harry so much? Find out if your predictions for the conclusion come true. Listen Now!
Customer Reviews
Another great one
Listen to now playing and thought I’d give this a shot as i had a gap to fill in my podcast listening and I’m a big John Carpenter fan but didn’t read these ESCAPE books. These boys have done it for me and it’s great. I do prefer when he has someone to bounce off from as he does in this series for sure. Give it a poke it’s worth it.
Addicted!
I absolutely love this podcast! The Now Playing team have a true talent for analysing the artistic and narrative nuances of modern fiction, and being able to find out the plot point developments of books by Stephen King and Arthur C Clarke, when life is often just too short to experience such heavy paperbacks first hand, is really delightful. Especially like it when Arnie contextualises the books of Stephen King by going over moments in the author's life which led the book in question being penned.
Only request would be "more episodes please!!"
It's a shame that you can't download earlier episodes, as I am pretty sure there used to be further reviews of books such as "Under The Dome" on here...
Keep em coming guys!! : )
The Long Walk
Enthusiastic speaker but I think he missed the point of The Long Walk.
It’s far more character led rather than plot led (because the plot is so simple and unflinching). The plot should have been covered in a few minutes to leave more time to talk about the characters. To say that there’s ‘too many characters’ is a weak assessment and seems to suggest that they just weren’t paying attention. I had zero issue following along with who was who.
This podcast also barely touched upon the complex relationship between McVries & Garraty. Nor does it mention any specific moments along the walk and hardly delved into any of the characters. So much to say about the likes of Hank Olsen (for example).
The walk itself can also be seen as a metaphor for life rather than just men being drafting into the Vietnam war.
Kudos to the parts where lines from the book were read out because they were read out well.
Overall, a bit of a frustrating listen.