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At Book Retorts we love finding weird media; join your hosts Danielle and Sam every other Wednesday as they take turns attempting to explain their latest find, often incomprehensibly, in an odd bid to get the other to appreciate it.
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Nancy Drew: The Crooked Banister (opens the original)
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Danielle takes it back to her roots with the 1971 Nancy Drew novel The Crooked Banister by Carolyn Keene. Which is, much to Sam's annoyance, about both a staircase banister and a man named Banister. When Banister (the man) skips bail after being arrested for a series of scams, Nancy is on the case. Or Nancy's dad is. We're pretty certain he just leaves Nancy at Banister's Escherian-style horror house to keep her busy. Luckily, the house manages to do exactly that. Mostly because it has a murdero
The Twins Effect (opens the original)
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Sam steps into Danielle territory with the 2003 Chinese vampire movie The Twins Effect (千機變). Are there twins? Sam certainly did no prior research and could not tell you. Sam, in fact, knows nothing about vampires he didn't learn from The Librarian. So this goes as well as you'd expect. The plot is up in the air, but it's supposedly about a vampire prince being hunted by a vampire duke in an effort to use the prince's blood to open a magic book that gives him sun-walking powers while said prince
I Hear Your Voice - Part 7 (opens the original)
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Danielle finally (finally!) finishes her Korean drama saga with the rousing and super very exciting ending to I Hear Your Voice (너의 목소리가 들려). Were you wondering what our favorite serial killer, Joon Gook, was up to? You'd be the only one, because the police and characters certainly weren't. Anyway, surprise! He's back! And with plans just as unfathomable as ever. In fact, his entire motivation seems opaque, despite some intense internet searching from Danielle in the recesses of the 2013 kdrama
Space: 1999: Ep. 1: Breakaway (opens the original)
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This week Sam brings the first episode of a brand new series Space: 1999 from 1975. Join us in the distant future of 1999 where Moonbase Alpha (on the Moon) is experiencing a strange disease affecting the astronauts there. It's definitely not radiation poisoning from all the atomic waste being constantly shipped there; no, it must it must be a virus from the planet Meta, only no one has been there yet. So maybe it's a virus that affects astronauts training for the mission to Meta? Look, Sam can'
I Hear Your Voice - Part 6 (opens the original)
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Danielle continues on in her k-drama saga with the (probably penultimate) episode of I Hear Your Voice (너의 목소리가 들려). If you’ve been wondering what hitman/murderer/avenger Joon Gook has been up to this whole time, boy will you be disappointed as he’s been writing letters at a desk in an alleyway, probably. However, if you are all-in on the Do Yeon being the daughter of Jail Guy plotline then this episode is for you. Jail Guy, who tried to murder his wife for realsies this time, is ready for his d
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