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Read, Watch, or DNF
by Mel B. & Jackie D.
Greetings, greetings, world! Welcome to the 'Read, Watch, or DNF' podcast, your ultimate destination for all things books, booze, and unforgettable adaptations. We're your hosts, the witty Mel B. and the fabulous Jackie D. 🎙️📚🎬 I know what you're thinking: "Another book and movie podcast? Seriously?" But hold on, bestie, because we're not your run-of-the-mill literary or cinematic review show. We're the daring explorers of storytelling, venturing into the dog-eared pages of beloved novels and the silver screen, uncovering the collisions, contrasts, and even conspiracies that breathe life into stories. Sporadically and drunkenly, we embark on literary adventures, exploring classics, best-sellers, and hidden gems. Then, we'll hop through time to their cinematic counterparts. Get ready to dissect plotlines, debate discrepancies, and raise a toast to the enchantment when tales spring to life on the silver screen. We'll even dive into the mystery of why characters sometimes
Episodes
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Practical Magic
In this week's episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we take a broomstick ride to Long Island to unravel the not-so-practical, not-so-magical misfortunes of a family plagued by 200+ years of generational trauma. Join us as we dive into Alice Hoffman's "Practical Magic" and its equally enchanting 1998...
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Annihilation
In this week's episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we embark on an extraterrestrial adventure to a lighthouse through a plasma wall with a squad of trigger-happy ladies. Why? Because we bumped uglies with our husband's body snatcher! Join us as we delve into Jeff VanderMeer's eco-horror masterpiece,...
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The Haunting of Hill House
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we kick-off spooky month by booking a bed and breakfast stay in a classic story with a classic trope in Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and the 2018 Netflix adaptation of the same name.And we ask the question, did the decision to adapt…
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The Princess Bride
WE ARE BACK!!!On this week's episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we take on a classic, but not the archaic kind, the 1973 kind and we travel the country of Florin in William Goldman’s The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure and the movie simply titled The...
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Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Volume
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we travel back in time with My Chemical Romance and then back agaIn to save the world (or maybe just that city, we don’t actually know) from an apocalypse that was cause by a glass eye?? In Gerard Way & Gabriel Ba’s Umbrella Academy: The Apocalypse...
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My Best Friend's Exorcism
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we travel back in time to 1988 and dance through its greatest hits whilst trying to remove a mean girl demon from our bestie in Grady Hendrix’s horror novel My Best Friend’s Exorcism and its Amazon Prime Video film adaptation with the same name. And…
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we head over to the Hudson Valley in search of a headless horseman among generational myths and modern greed in Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and its 1999 screen adaptation Sleepy Hollow. And we ask the question, what actually makes…
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School for Good and Evil
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we close out our month of Netflix original adaptations with young reader’s take on the origin story of classic fairytales in Soman Chainani’s book 1 of his School for Good and Evil series. And we ask the question; when adaptations alter the…
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Passing
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we take a stroll through Harlem in a monotone, most likely opium fueled, haze in Nella Larsen's Passing and the 2021 Netflix original adaptation of the same name. And we ask the question, is it possible for an adaptation to be too much like the book?...
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To All the Boys I've Loved Before
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we seriously ponder life choices as we discuss Jenny Han’s to all the boys I’ve loved before and the 2018 Netflix original adaptation of the same name. We ask the question ? Why, just why? Also, I’m almost certain this book gave me ptsd.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we enlist to go to the front line of the Great War, and slum it in the trenches with a group of shell shocked soldiers in Erich Maria Remarque’s novel All Quiet on the Western Front, and the new Netflix original adaption of the same name? And we ask…
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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we take a puddle jumper from London to Paris and go dress shopping with a hard working widow in Paul Gallico’s Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris and its 2022 film adaptation of the same name. And we ask the question; how da fuq does 120 pages of nothing...
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Bullet Train
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we travel at nearly 200mph, from Tokyo to Morioka, on a Shinkansen with some unhinged passengers in Kotaro Isaka’s Bullet Train, and the 2022 adaptation of the same name. We ask the question,does Thomas the Tank Engine really hold all the answers to...
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The Black Phone
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we look for puppies in the back of a black van and spend some time with a rotary phone in Joe Hill’s short story The Black Phone and its 2022 film adaptation of the same name. And we ask the question - do short stories make for better source material?...
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Where the Crawdads Sing
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we head on down to the marshes of North Carolina with Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing and the 2022 adaptation of the same name, and we ask the question, why are modern ‘romances’ marketed as empowered women really just case studies in stockholm...
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A Christmas Carol
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we get in the holiday spirit with the ultimate Yuletide classic; A Christmas Carol by the OG Charles Dickens and the 1988 film adaptation - or more so a modern retelling - Scrooged with the one and only Bill Murray. And we ask the question; when does…
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Shawshank Redemption
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we get out of solitary long enough to tunnel through the wall of maximum security prison in Stephen King’s novella “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” and its 1994 film adaptation The Shawshank Redemption - and we ask the question; did…
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The Body (Stand By Me)
On this week's episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we travel down the train tracks of adolescence with a group of pre-teen boys to find a dead body, in Stephen King's novella The Body and it's 1986 film adaptation Stand By Me.
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Interview with the Vampire
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF - we travel to 18th century New Orleans with a front row seat for the epitome of homosexual vampire angst in Anne Rice’s Two Men and a Baby…sorry I mean Interview With the Vampire and its star studded 1994 film adaptation of the same name. And we ask...
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The Exorcist
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we hop on the orange line and head into Washington DC to examine the pit of despair that is humanity with William Peter Blatty’s novel The Exorcist and the 1973 film adaptation of the same name. And ask the question: Did Hollywood focus too much on...
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The Color Purple
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we travel down the backwood dirt roads in Georgia and follow Ms. Celie as she deals with every trauma imaginable to a woman in her origin story written by Alice Walker; The Color Purple and ask the question; Does Hollywood hate men more than Alice...
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The Secret Garden
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we follow mega-brat Mary Lennox from India to England in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden, and the 2020 seemingly made for tv adaptation of the same name. We ask the question, much like other adaptations, did the writers actually read the...
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Lone Survivor
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF Jackie D. and I have finally failed you. We’ve met our match with Marcus Lutrell’s bullshit masterpiece Lone Survivor: the eyewitness account of operation redwing and the lost heroes of seal team 10, which Hollywood somehow was able to salvage in the...
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Jarhead
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we fly commercial into “war”, and follow a disillusioned Marine Scout Sniper as he bullshits his way through life as a US Marine and veteran in Anthony Swafford’s memiore Jarhead “A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and other battles” and its 2005...
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We Were Soldiers
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we are air dropped into the full on chaos of guerrilla warfare in the personal accounts of the 7th Air Cav troopers in We Were Soldiers Once…and Young written by Lt. Gen Hal Moore and Joe Galloway and its 2002 film adaptation We Were Soldiers directed...
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Unbroken
On this weeks episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we take a sobering flight with WWII Louis Zamperini and crash land into an ocean of despair, and torture as he tries to survive the horrors of Japanese POW camps in Laura Hillenbrands Unbroken: A World War II story of Survival, Resilience, and…
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The Red Badge of Courage
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we’re marching along with ‘The Youth’, aka, Henry Fleming, as he battles with thoughts of desertion and heroism in Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage. We ask the question, have soldiers really changed in the last 150+ years? (the answer is no)...
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Breaking Dawn (Twilight Saga)
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we close out Pride month with the much anticipated conclusion of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga fourth installment Breaking Dawn and its two part screen adaptation. And we ask the question “why did we do this”?!?!?!?! Also, thank you Hollywood for...
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Eclipse (Twilight Saga)
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we continue with our case study on Stockholm syndrome in Stephenie Meyer’s third installment of her Twilight Saga; Eclipse, and its 2010 screen adaptation. And we ask the question: what could be worse than 600+ pages of teen angst??? Oh yeah, 600+...
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New Moon (Twilight Saga)
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we continue limping behind Bella and her awkward reactions to everything everyone says. So much more angst in this one than in the last one. Breakups are the end of the world. We ask the question, why did we do this to ourselves? Also, how much did…
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Twilight
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we start our journey through the Twilight Saga and go all the way to Forks, Washington, where we follow Bella Swan and her epic(more like confounding) relationship with Edward Cullen. We’re gonna deal with a whole lot of teen angst…and sparkly...
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A Simple Favor
Hi, moms! On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we travel to suburban Connecticut and visit Stephanie as she tries desperately to connect with other moms and discover what happened to her “best friend” Emily in Darcey Bell’s A Simple Favor and the 2018 film adaptation. We ask the…
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Sharp Objects
On this week's episode of Read, Watch , or DNF we participate in a family reunion of F’ up proportions in Gyllian Flynn’s sharp objects and its 2018 HBO limited TV series and ask the question; WTF is Calhoun Day??? so grab a drink, some neosporin, and “welcome home” Also, Don’t Tell Mamma
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Gone, Baby, Gone
On this week’s episode we take a Mother’s day trip to Boston and get a crash course in how not to parent from the local gang bangers, junkies, and corrupt cops in Dennis Lehane’s Gone, Baby, Gone and it’s 2007 Baby Affleck film adaptation. We ask the question; what happened to 2/3rds of this...
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And Then There Were None
On this week's episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we kick off Mystery May with none other than the Queen of Mystery herself; Agatha Christie and the most Whodunnit of Whodunits And Then There Were None andthe 2015 mini series adaptation. And we ask the question: did Hollywood not think there was…
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Bridget Jones's Diary
We go across the pond to examine the many trials and tribulations of a single woman in London, struggling with relationships, an overbearing mother, and career happiness and we ask the question; who told Renee Zellweger she could pull off a British accent??? Also, are all men in their 30s total...
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High Fidelity
We travel back in time to the 1990s and sit front row as a narcissist stumbles through love and rejection in High Fidelity . And we ask the question; have we found a character more unlikeable than the Devil Wears Prada novel version of Andy Sachs and where do they rank in our top 5 worst...
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Mansfield Park
Does Hollywood understand the difference between 'based on' and 'inspired by?' We have our doubts after breaking down this adaptation of the OG Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. Also, what happened to William?
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
On this week's episode we dive head first into the teen angst how to guide that is The Perks of Being a Wallflower and we ask the question; did Hollywood give pedophiles and rapists a break with this adaptation? And also, do we hate Emma Watson?
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Little Women
We close out Women's History Month with a classic, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and we ask the question... Did Hollywood give Alcott the ending she deserved in the 2019 film adaptation? Also, who is Aunt Carrol?
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The Handmaid's Tale
We tackle the fever dream that is Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and the Hulu adaptation and we ask the question; Did Margaret Atwood even know what she wanted to write???
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Did Hollywood really spend $90 million to make "Pretentious, Misogynist, Christophobic, Torture Porn?" Also, what happened to Lisbeth's eyebrows?
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The Devil Wears Prada
Did Hollywood know what they were doing when they casted Andy Sachs as a naive sweetheart or would we have preferred the chain smoking cynic??? Also, F Nate...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Greetings, greetings, world! Welcome to the 'Read, Watch, or DNF' podcast, your ultimate destination for all things books, booze, and unforgettable adaptations. We're your hosts, the witty Mel B. and the fabulous Jackie D. 🎙️📚🎬
I know what you're thinking: "Another book and movie podcast? Seriously?" But hold on, bestie, because we're not your run-of-the-mill literary or cinematic review show. We're the daring explorers of storytelling, venturing into the dog-eared pages of beloved novels and the silver screen, uncovering the collisions, contrasts, and even conspiracies that breathe life into stories.
Sporadically and drunkenly, we embark on literary adventures, exploring classics, best-sellers, and hidden gems. Then, we'll hop through time to their cinematic counterparts. Get ready to dissect plotlines, debate discrepancies, and raise a toast to the enchantment when tales spring to life on the silver screen. We'll even dive into the mystery of why characters sometimes
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