Is This Just Fantasy?

What if the hot vampires.... didn't kiss? Those are the kind of revolutionary ideas you can find in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles.Duncan raves over his first encounter with the book, even if Louis' self-indulgent despair gets at little too goth at times, whilst Geordie wishes he was back watching the TV show adaptation again.
Tune in for Duncan getting a brief history lesson about vampires, discussions of depictions of Slavic people somehow more offensive than Bram Stoker's, a debate on just how gay should the gay vampires be, and the most impromptu decision on the next episode's book in the podcast's history.
Please be aware that Geordie's audio issues persist from the previous episode.
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Intro and Outro Music: Fantasy Exploration Music | Chapter’s End
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Another year. Another Halloween Season. Another arbitrary compartmentalisation of a larger official chapter of Berserk. This time Geordie gets Duncan to read the Fantasia Chapter, but to read no farther than Berserk's shortest mini-arc: Spring Flowers of Days Long Passed.
Duncan celebrates the exciting fights, the genuinely unsettling horror and tries to figure out how a crew of veteran monster slayers can just merrily stroll into Innsmouth. Whilst Geordie, typically a defender of one of Berserk's less popular arcs, suddenly realises that Kentaro Miura may have been a little bit bolder in the stuff he borrowed from Hollywood. But, they both share fangirling over Roderick, and shedding a little tear for Chitch, the cutest short-lived character in the series.
Editor's note: we have to apologise for Geordie's audio at the moment, which is due to his unexpected move and a disadvantageous recording set-up. It will likely remain the same for the next couple of episodes.
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Featuring:
Intro and Outro Music: Fantasy Exploration Music | Chapter’s End
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Just when the world they thought they were dead, they returned!! After some.... let's call them extenuating circumstances... the review of Blood Over Brighthaven will at last see the light of day.
And what a review! You've got analysis of social commentary, you've got debate around excellent world building and characters, you've got some genuinely hysterical bants about the only nice thing we'll ever say about Maggie Thatcher.
Anyway, this book is rad. Come hear about it!
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After a brief break, Duncan and Geordie are back to continue their journey into deciding that this Sanderson guy is actually pretty good at writing books. Huh? The Well of Ascension carries on the plot begun in Mistborn: The Final Empire, plunging it from the world of revolution into one of politics, siegecraft, and eerie supernatural forces.
Its full of badass action - sometimes a little too badass, which is a wild complaint but here we are - intrigue, and some genuinely great twists. Duncan is astonished to discover a tertiary antagonist that he literally forgot existed, and Geordie tries to figure out,,, like, what exactly are Brandon Sanderson's beliefs?
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Intro and Outro Music: Fantasy Exploration Music | Chapter’s End
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Geordie has been banished to Spain for being mean to Steven Erikson. Whilst Duncan defends one of the most seminal, if controversial, modern additions to epic fantasy: 'Gardens of the Moon' the first book in Malazan: Book of the Fallen.
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Intro and Outro Music: Fantasy Exploration Music | Chapter’s End
Music provided by Dungeon Playlist - Emma Young and Jonathan Young
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