Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast: Episode 090

Episode 090 - Adventure Fiction

Dec 3, 2019

This month we’re discussing Adventure Fiction! We talk about bears (and bear fighting), spies, secret tunnels, robots, survival, thrillers, male romance, geese, pirates, stolen smartphones, shipwrecks, and more!

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In this episode

Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards | Robert Hamaker

Things We Read

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
- There are ten sequels to this book! And spin-offs!
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Muppet Treasure Island - Professional Pirate (featuring Tim Curry)
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
- Robinsonade (Wikipedia)
Pirates! by Celia Rees
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
The Anomaly by Michael Rutger
- Matthew forgot this bit of the book that he also really hates:
- - “We were guaranteed a spread in Ancient American magazine, and maybe a mention in Obscure Academic Quarterly About Indigenous Peoples (circulation: 151 copies worldwide, hidden in college libraries where no one under the age of forty goes expect to make out).”
The Apocalypse Troll by David Weber
Celtic Empire by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler
- Dirk Pitt (Wikipedia)
- Sahara (2005 film) (Wikipedia)
- The photo that RJ shared with everyone
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia
- Rick Riordan Presents (Wikipedia)
- John Henry (folklore) (Wikipedia)
- Steel (John Henry Irons) (Wikipedia)