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Book Discussions - AfterBuzz Books
by Book Circle Online
AfterBuzz Books is the world’s first online network with shows dedicated to the intimate discussion and dissection of various books. AB Books also features one on one author interviews, and engages fellow fans via social media.AfterBuzz Books Hosts, comprised of authors, writers, critics and media personalities, discuss all aspects of the book from the author’s inspiration and background to chapter by chapter breakdowns. Hosts offer insight and opinions as well as diverse and thought provoking views.
Episodes
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Peter Pan (J.M. Barrie) – Adapted: Books to Movies
Love books? Love movies? Hosts Marisa Serafini and Phil Svitek love them both too... equally. So they decided to marry their love of both into a monthly dedicated series where they discuss books that have been adapted into movies. This month they chose JM Barrie's Peter Pan which is about a...
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The Princess Bride (William Goldman) – Adapted: Books to Movies
Love books? Love movies? Hosts Marisa Serafini and Phil Svitek love them both too... equally. So they decided to marry their love of both into a monthly dedicated series where they discuss books that have been adapted into movies. This month they chose The Princess Bride, a 1973 novel by William...
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What Dreams May Come (Richard Matheson) – Adapted: Books to Movies
Love books? Love movies? Hosts Marisa Serafini and Phil Svitek love them both too... equally. So they decided to marry their love of both into a monthly dedicated series where they discuss books that have been adapted into movies. This month they chose What Dreams May Come, [...]
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The Time Traveler’s Wife (Audrey Niffennegger) – Adapted: Books to Movies
Love books? Love movies? Hosts Marisa Serafini and Phil Svitek love them both too... equally. So they decided to marry their love of both into a monthly dedicated series where they discuss books that have been adapted into movies. This month they chose The Time Traveler's Wife, [...]
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The Perfect Storm (Sebastian Junger) – Adapted: Books to Movies
Love books? Love movies? Hosts Marisa Serafini and Phil Svitek love them both too... equally. So they decided to marry their love of both into a monthly dedicated series where they discuss books that have been adapted into movies. This month they chose The Perfect Storm, [...]
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Proved Innocent: The Story of Gerry Conlon of the Guildford Four (Gerry Conlon) – Adapted: Books to Movies
Love books? Love movies? Hosts Marisa Serafini and Phil Svitek love them both too... equally. So they decided to marry their love of both into a monthly dedicated series where they discuss books that have been adapted into movies. This month they chose Gerry Conlon's Proved Innocent, an...
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The Silence of the Lambs (Thomas Harris) – Adapted: Books to Movies
Love books? Love movies? Hosts Marisa Serafini and Phil Svitek love them both too... equally. So they decided to marry their love of both into a monthly dedicated series where they discuss books that have been adapted into movies. This month they honor Thomas Harris' Silence of the Lambs, which...
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A Farewell To Arms (Ernest Hemingway) – Adapted: Books to Movies
Love books? Love movies? Hosts Marisa Serafini and Phil Svitek love them both too... equally. So they decided to marry their love of both into a monthly dedicated series where they discuss books that have been adapted into movies. This month they discuss A Farewell to Arms. The book, published in...
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A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) – Adapted: Books to Movies
Love books? Love movies? Hosts Marisa Serafini and Phil Svitek love them both too... equally. So they decided to marry their love of both into a monthly dedicated series where they discuss books that have been adapted into movies. Love books? Love movies? Hosts Marisa Serafini and Phil Svitek…
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Stardust by Neil Gaiman – Adapted: Books to Movies
Love books? Love movies? Hosts Marisa Serafini and Phil Svitek love them both too... equally. So they decided to marry their love of both into a monthly dedicated series where they discuss books that have been adapted into movies. This month, they analyze Neil Gaiman's Stardust, which has a...
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro – Adapted: Books to Movies
Love books? Love movies? Hosts Marisa Serafini and Phil Svitek love them both too... equally. So they decided to marry their love of both into a monthly dedicated series where they discuss books that have been adapted into movies. In episode five, they discuss an alternate world in Kazuo…
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The Revenant by Michael Punke | Adapted: Books to Movies
Love books? Love movies? Hosts Marisa Serafini and Phil Svitek love them both too... equally. So they decided to marry their love of both into a monthly dedicated series where they discuss books that have been adapted into movies. In episode four, they venture into the wilderness of Wyoming in...
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The Prestige by Christopher Priest – Adapted: Books to Movies
Love books? Love movies? Hosts Marisa Serafini and Phil Svitek love them both too... equally. So they decided to marry their love of both into a monthly dedicated series where they discuss books that have been adapted into movies. In episode three, they enter the world of magic at a time when...
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The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling | Adapted: Books to Movies
Love books? Love movies? Hosts Marisa Serafini and Phil Svitek love them both too... equally. So they decided to marry their love of both into a monthly dedicated series where they discuss books that have been adapted into movies. In the second episode, they venture off into the jungle to learn…
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Brian Selznick) – Adapted: Books to Movies
Love books? Love movies? Hosts Marisa Serafini and Phil Svitek love them both too... equally. So they decided to marry their love of both into a monthly dedicated series where they discuss books that have been adapted into movies. In the inaugural episode, they thought it fitting to kick things…
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Night Film by Marisha Pessl | Book Discussion
NIGHT FILM follows a broken journalist's investigation into the haunted life and death of Ashley Cordova, the mad director's beautiful daughter. It begins as a mystery with overtones of dream-like horror. It flickers and dims and deepens into a study of people who burn too brightly, burning up…
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Acceptance by Jeff Vandermeer | Book Discussion
It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, rebuffing expedition after expedition, refusing to reveal its secrets. As Area X expands, the agency tasked with investigating and overseeing it--the Southern Reach--has collapsed on itself in…
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Perfidia by James Ellroy | Book Discussion
It is December 6, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americans—but now, war fever and race hate grip the city and the Japanese internment begins. The…
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Consumed by David Cronenberg | Book Discussion
David Cronenberg, the celebrated Canadian film director, lauded by The New York Times for creating “some of the best, most challenging, most unusual English-language films of the last twenty years,” and named a chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters in France—turns his remarkable talent to…
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California by Edan Lepucki | Book Discussion
The world Cal and Frida have always known is gone, and they've left the crumbling city of Los Angeles far behind them. They now live in a shack in the wilderness, working side-by-side to make their days tolerable in the face of hardship and isolation. Mourning a past they can't reclaim, they seek...
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Dead Stars by Bruce Wagner | Book Discussion
Dead Stars is Bruce Wagner’s most lavish and remarkable translation yet of the national zeitgeist: post-privacy porn culture, a Kardashianworld of rapid-cycling, disposable narrative where reality-show triumph is the new American narcotic. At age thirteen, Telma is famous as the world’s youngest...
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Authority by Jeff VanderMeer | Book Discussion
After thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X—a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all signs of civilization—has been a series of expeditions overseen by a government agency so secret it has almost been forgotten: the...
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Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn | Book Discussion
Join the Book Circle team as we investigate the he said/she said psychosis of GONE GIRL, Gillian Flynn's bestselling hypnotic thriller (soon to be a major motion picture): "Marriage can be a real killer. One of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of our time, New York Times bestseller...
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Qaddaffi’s Point Guard by Alex Owumi | Book Discussion
A Nigerian native who emigrated to the United States at age 11, Alex Owumi’s exploits on the basketball court led him to a successful career as a small college player. Undrafted by the NBA, Owumi pursued his pro basketball dream overseas, eventually signing with Al-Nasr of Libya, a state-run...
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The Pale King by David Foster Wallace | Book Discussion
In honor of Tax Day, the Book Circle team explores what may be the most ambitious and resonant fiction ever composed on the subject of the IRS and the men and women who serve it... The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived…
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Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins | Book Discussion
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of...
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Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins | Book Discussion
Mockingjay is the third and final book in the Hunger Games trilogy. Katniss has reluctantly joined the rebel army as Mockingjay, a symbol of hope and freedom for the districts. In this edition, hosts Jeffrey Masters, Jason Squamata, and Kira Hesser sit down and discuss Mockingjay by Suzanne...
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Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer | Book Discussion
ANNIHILATION is a bestselling slice of weird fiction that follows a woman we know only as “the biologist” into a lost world of sorts, an expanding eruption of primeval paradise called AREA X, wherein multiple ecosystems are rudely spliced and teeming lifeforms mutate at the speed of eternity. She...
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The Fault in Our Stars by John Green | Book Discussion
The Fault in Our Stars is the #1 New York Times bestselling novel by John Green. It is now a major motion picture, and follows the story of Hazel Lancaster and Augustus Waters after the two meet and form an instant connection at a cancer support group. In this edition, hosts Jeffrey Masters,...
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Under The Skin by Michael Faber | Book Discussion
UNDER THE SKIN is a sleek and bizarre science fiction story by Michel Faber, a sometimes erotic, sometimes ice-cold portrait of a disfigured alien predator. Strategically disfigured as a honeytrap for earth men who will soon be meat. Her name is Isserly and she picks up hitchers on the motorways…
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Doctor Sleep by Stephen King | Book Discussion
DOCTOR SLEEP is Stephen King's gripping and surprisingly endearing sequel to THE SHINING, a classic 70s horror novel that opened bloodsoaked corridors of terror in the collective psyche of a generation (in its literary form and via a masterful film adaptation by Stanley Kubrick). The book…
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Night Film by Marisha Pessl | Book Discussion
NIGHT FILM follows a broken journalist's investigation into the haunted life and death of Ashley Cordova, the mad director's beautiful daughter. It begins as a mystery with overtones of dream-like horror. It flickers and dims and deepens into a study of people who burn too brightly, burning up…
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Wild by Cheryl Strayed | Book Discussion
After her mother's death and her marriage was destroyed, Cheryl Strayed embarked on a 3-month trek across the Pacific Crest Trail, which stretches across the west coast from Mexico to Canada. She hiked over 1,000 miles of it, and details the terrors and triumphs of her experiences in her memoir,...
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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins | Book Discussion
HUNGER GAMES, by Suzanne Collins, is a 2008 young adult novel (quote/unquote) that became a publishing sensation, spawning two sequels and two hit films with a third in the wings, wooing readers and watchers from every walk of life with its mythic tale of Katniss Everdeen, the Girl On Fire, a…
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The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon | Book Discussion
Step into the Circle and bear witness as the BCO narrative dissection team explores Samantha Shannon's THE BONE SEASON, an exciting and widely hyped new novel (the first of a projected seven-part series), wherein we meet Paige Mahoney, our narrator and heroine, a nineteen year old criminal...
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A Brilliant Novel in the Works by Yuvi Zalkow | Book Discussion
“A Brilliant Novel in the Works” edition, is an exploration of Yuvi Zalkow’s “A Brilliant Novel in the Works”, an almost semi-autobiographic piece about a man struggling to write a novel. Host Jason Squamata talks about the book on the levels of craft, theme, and character. Joining Jason with the...
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AfterBuzz Books is the world’s first online network with shows dedicated to the intimate discussion and dissection of various books. AB Books also features one on one author interviews, and engages fellow fans via social media.AfterBuzz Books Hosts, comprised of authors, writers, critics and media personalities, discuss all aspects of the book from the author’s inspiration and background to chapter by chapter breakdowns. Hosts offer insight and opinions as well as diverse and thought provoking views.
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