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Shark Liver Oil
by Shark Liver Oil
We take a book, split it into a few pieces, then podcast about it. Listen to us get to grips with some of your favourite old classics or pick up something new and read along with us! Get in touch with any comments or just tell us which book we should be doing next.. email [email protected] or tweet @sharkliveroilSo Far, Shark Liver Oil has read: The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest HemingwayThe Hobbit, JRR Tolkien The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern Zombie Apocalypse! Stephen JonesA Game Of Thrones, George RR MartinA Clash Of Kings, George RR MartinA Storm Of Swords, George RR MartinWatchmen, Alan Moore and Dave GibbonsPride and Prejudice, Jane AustenThe Catcher in the Rye, JD SalingerThe Mist, Stephen KingA Christmas Carol, Charles DickensThe Goblins Who Stone a Sexton, Charles DickensI Am Legend, Richard MathesonMort, Terry Pratchett
Episodes
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A Dance With Dragons, Part 14 - Ser Rasputin Selmy
RESUBSCRIBE NOW - bit.ly/sharkliveroil in your RSS subscription section! It's the big finish - la grande crescendo - el grand culminacion: and this is A Song of Ice and Fire, so it's bloody. Join us as we sprint into Season 6 of Game of Thrones, and share our astonished delight at the continued...
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Dance With Dragons 7: Little People Big People
It's all about extreme in part seven of Shark Liver Oil's readthrough of A Dance With Dragons. From the smallest amongst us we find out more about Tyrion and Penny's pig riding, ship breaking and storm ravaged journey across the hot and humid climes of their ocean journey towards Slavers Bay. At...
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A Dance With Dragons Part 6 - Pretty Bad HR Policy
WE'RE BACK ON THE DRAGONS! It's our return for a final victory lap of the world of A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin (at least until The Winds of Winter comes out). Revel! In the sight of a grown admiral acting like an angry teenager. Gasp! At the wince-enducing cruelty of negligent...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles 3: Alcohol Fixes Everything
It's the thrilling climax of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of The Baskervilles. Gasp! As Sherlock Holmes uses a knight of the realm as bait in his plot to catch a murderer. Scream! As the scary hound from the depths of hell bounds across the moors. Cheer! As Dr Watson celebrates the death of...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles 2: Thigh-Rubbing Pest
We're back! And it's part 2 of our coverage of The Hound of the Baskervilles, the classic Arthur Conan Doyle novel featuring everyone's favourite detective, Sherlock Holmes. We've got mysteries, we've got the potential romantic entanglements of famous East-side rappers, and we've got the…
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Baskervilles 1: Death On Tippy Toes
Better late than never, we're back for the new year with a new book! It's the Sherlock Holmes classic, The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle. In part 1 we meet the prickly but brilliant Holmes and his long suffering assistant Watson. We also hear the terrible tale of the Hound that...
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A Dance With Dragons Part 5 - Harpies Gonna Harp
It's time for some guerrilla warfare, some questionable health advice, and, of course, some poor life choices - it's time, in fact, for the fifth part of our coverage of A Dance With Dragons by George RR Martin! Featuring dragons, dancing, and some beings who are definitely not zombies no no...
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A Dance With Dragons 4: The Onion Of Ill Omen
Welcome to part 4 of shark liver oil's journey through A Dance With Dragons. We check in with Davos during his ill advised diplomatic mission to White Harbour, we encounter the stone men as part of Tyrion's Big Gap Year Boat Trip Adventure, Theon/ Reek visits a new contender for "Most Miserable...
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A Dance With Dragons 3: Not Even An Ethical Grey Area
Welcome to part 3 of our rollocking good romp through A Dance With Dragons. In this section Danaerys considers bringing back Mereen's "Even More Extreme WWE" style fighting pits, Jon sends his best friends away in an honourable move worthy of Ned Stark and Davos moves ever closer to his Feast For...
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Dance With Dragons 2: Knock His Block Off
The second part of Shark Liver Oil's page by page guide to George RR Martin's Dance With Dragons says hello to a pole-boat load of new characters, welcomes back some old favourites and fetches the chopping block for one of its enemies. Get ready to meet Griff, Halfmaester Haldon,...
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Dance With Dragons 1: King of the Rabbits
WE'RE BACK! As dragon returns to its recently-charred livestock, so we return to A Song of Ice and Fire, and it's good to be back on the dragon wagon. This week, we've got the return - with a bump - of all the characters you missed during A Feast for Crows, which means Jon Snow! In the snow!…
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The Mist: Halloween Spooky Special
ooooOOOOOOooooh - it's a scary Shark cage special this week, as we do an all-in-one take on Stephen King's classic novella The Mist. This is weather at it's most bad-assed, containing not only chills but acid spiders, unhinged old ladies and ravenous tentacles. Surely, it's nothing to do with the...
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The Masque Of The Red Death: Halloween Spooky Special
It's that time of year again! The pumpkins are carved, the trick or treaters are out in force and its time for Shark Liver Oil's Halloween Spooky Special! This year we're reading The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe - one of the classic gothic horror short stories. It's got dressing up…
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The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd 4: Trolled By Agatha Christie
Well, where to start with this one? After four glorious episodes of rampant speculation about parlourmaid sexy dances, bloody-dagger-based-cash-in-hand-motivated-murder and (of course) salacious scenes of chronic butler self abuse - our proud theories and tentative conclusions are roundly blown…
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 3: Not Angry, Just Disappointed
In part three of Shark Liver Oil's page by page guide to Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd we begin to get a bit frustrated with Poirot's "I've found out something important... but I'm not going to tell you what it is" routine. We also discover such nineteenth century highlights as...
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The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd 2: We Don't Need Any Help From a Frenchie
Shark Liver Oil returns with the second of a four part read through of Agatha Christie's The Death Of Roger Ackroyd. In this section we discover a vital clue in the form of a mysterious gold ring, Dave questions the effectiveness of "oh I couldn't possible be guilty, I'm a woman" as a defence and...
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Part 1 - Possible Something To Do With A Sexy Dance
We're doing a classic Hercule Poirot mystery novel from the master of the art, Agatha Christie. This book's got it all - a man with a fortune who won't share his cash, suspicious behaviour from close family members, potentially disgusting behaviour on the part of a butler, the world's worst…
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Jurassic Park The Film: Big Screen Dinos
We are BACK! We all know it's been a long summer without Shark Liver Oil so we've got a bumper-back-to-business podcast for all you little sharklettes out there. We round off our Jurassic Park coverage in style with a scene by scene guide to Stephen Spielberg's blockbuster. We go through the film...
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Jurassic Park Part 5: Battle Royale with Dinosaurs
It's the final stomping, roaring, chomping edition of our coverage of Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton; this week we're reading from 'The Grid' to the end of the book, and it's a doozy. We've got scientists tinned in brine; we've got psychedelic killing machines, and we've got the world's most...
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Jurassic Park Part 4: Veh, Veh Drunk
It's part 4 of our massive, stomping, bellowing shambles of a read-through of Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park! This week is an absolute mammoth, so it's a bit late, but to make up for it we've got it all - we've got raptor boxing, we've got dinosaur ASBOs, and we've got a T-Rex that falls asleep...
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Jurassic Park 3: The Dinosaurs Are Coming
It's part 3 of Shark Liver Oil's page by page guide to Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton and its a MONSTER of an episode. After two weeks of growing wonder - the kind you can only get from visiting a theme park with actual real live dinosaurs in it - we find out what happens when said Dinosaurs…
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Jurassic Park Part 2 - Who Exactly is Richard Kiley Anyway
It's part 2 of our 5-part romp through Michael Crichton's classic Jurassic Park, and this month we've got questionable grandfathering, questionable labour practices, and questionable casting for the part of Ed 'Not In The Film' Regis - but more importantly than all of that WE'VE GOT DINOSAURS! As...
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Jurassic Park 1: They Do Move In Herds
We've finally got around to doing one of our favourite books of all time - Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. Our page by page guide will take you through this epic tale which is a modern classic in its own right or, for cinema fans, reads as a special extended directors cut version of the film.…
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Feast For Crows 10 - Hangin With Brienne
Its the final episode of Shark Liver Oil's rollocking good romp through George RR Martin's A Feast For Crows! And what a feast we have for you here. In a shock twist, Brienne appears to have survived, only to appear to die again a few pages later in another shock twist. Will she return in yet...
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Feast For Crows 9 - Descent
In Descent, Shark Liver Oil explores the murky nadir of A Feast For Crows. We plough through more Cersei insanity and spend almost an entire chapter locked in a tower with a petulant and unapologetic teenager. We then get a luxurious amount of detail lavished upon Sansa and Sweetrobin's climb…
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Feast for Crows 8 - Two Arrows, A Mace, And A Vat Of Boiling Oil
We continue our tour of Westeros like the hardy northmen we are, not even asking for a refund when the bed turns out to be more populated with bugs than Kings Landing is by psychos; INSTEAD, we hear the world's worst marriage proposal, see the outcome of some truly horrendous dental work, and Ser...
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Feast For Crows 7: The Quiet Isle
We continue our rollocking good romp through George RR Martin's A Feast For Crows with Part 7: The Quiet Isle. Brienne takes a breather on Monk Island, a not so cunning plot of Cersei's backfires spectacularly and we visit Braavos and meet Cassio - King Of The Seals. Will he make a late bid for…
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A Feast for Crows Part 6 - The Reaver
We're back, galloping across Westeros, thundering through King's Landing and doing fuck all in the North because there's none of that in this book and George Martin doesn't care how you feel. BUT INSTEAD we've got a new entry in the popular 'poor life choices in Westeros' series (now starring...
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Feast For Crows 5 - Kill The Beets
We're at the halfway stage of A Feast For Crows by George RR Martin and things are starting to heat up! There's a crazy one man cavalry charge to round off an even crazier freewheeling teen plot to take over Westeros, a diplomatic masterclass from everyone's favourite slimy politician and some...
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A Feast for Crows Part 4 - The Drowned Man
It’s episode 4 of our read-through of George RR Martin’s A Feast for Crows. We’ve got political intrigue, steel bands and a man who mysteriously isn’t nicknamed ‘Piss King’ - also the continuing descent into madness of Cersei ‘it’s all a plot’ Baratheon...as ever, give us a tweet @sharkliveroil…
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Feast for Crows 2 - The House of Black and White
EEEEH-HEEE! It's time for the second part of our romp/saunter/seemingly endless march through George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. Today it's a feast indeed: we've got a continuingly mental Red Woman, a continuingly self-obsessed Cersei, and Matt's tortured uncertainty about male nipples.…
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Feast For Crows 3: The Soiled Knight (don't laugh..)
Welcome to the third part of Shark Liver Oil's journey through A Feast For Crows by George RR Martin. In this part we discuss how not to name your drinking establishment, Radyll Tarly "Dad of The Year" and what the phrase "the soiled knight" may actually mean. Oh, and some plot and stuff happens...
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Feast For Crows 1: The Wars To Come
We're back on the Thrones-waggon! Join us for our ten part journey through George RR Martin's A Feast For Crows, the fourth in his A Song Of Ice and Fire series. This week we're reading from the prologue to the chapter about Sam "Sam was reading about the others when he saw the mouse." Get ready...
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Mort Part 3: Forgot About Dre
We've reached the end of our coverage of Terry Pratchett's Mort, and it's all kicking off this week: we've got duels, we've got arcane rituals, we've got 2,000 year bar tabs - and, because we love you, we've also got NOT ONLY rapping BUT ALSO a duet between Death and Death. They've just gone...
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Mort Part 1 - I Could Murder.......A Curry
We're back, and we're doing a modern classic - Terry Pratchett's Mort. Watch as we meet Death himself and discover he loves a skull-wax, digs curry, and cares more for cats than you might normally expect. This is a bit of a heartfelt one for Dave, since Terry Pratchett is a hero of his; and in…
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I Am Legend Part 3 - Am I Legend?
It's the third part of our rolling, rollocking shamble through Richard Matheson's classic I Am Legend. This week, we've got paranoia, murky moral complexity, and wooden mallets to the face. We're also taking a look at the best that the internet has on I Am Legend, and wondering how exactly you're...
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I Am Legend Pt 2: Vampire Earthworms!
Join us on the second of our three part journey through Richard Matheson's scifi-horror classic I Am Legend. We talk about government-sponsored mass cremations, drinking to forget it all and the chilling prospect of debonair vampire earthworms. Send your thoughts and reviews of the book to...
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I Am Legend Part 1: Vampire Zombie Zombie Vampire
We're back for the new year, and we're doing the sci-fi/horror classic I Am Legend. This isn't your Will Smith adaptation - well obviously it isn't, it's our patented blend of nonsense, idiocy and literature, which is much more enjoyable. And our CGI really is better than theirs. As ever, get in...
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The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton: Gettin' It Done
We're rounding off our December of Christmas themed material with a look at the ultra-short story by Charles Dickens called The Goblins who Stole a Sexton. It's taken from the Pickwick Papers and is seen by many (including us) as the spiritual dad of A Christmas Carol. It's got goblins, ghastly...
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A Christmas Carol 2: God Bless Us, Every One!
It's the last part of our coverage of A Christmas Carol, and we've got jolly ghosts, silent ghosts, a massive feast, a bit of slap and tickle behind the curtains, the stamp collectors of the British Empire, and Ebenezer Scrooge really really seriously failing to take a hint. Also featuring Dave's...
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A Christmas Carol 3: The Christmas Special
Welcome to a special episode of shark liver oil where we'll be doing things a little differently. For our third part of our guide to A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens we'll be discussing your feedback, reviews from around the world and taking a look at some modern re-tellings of the classic...
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A Christmas Carol 1: Humbug!
Wooooo! Woooooooo! Woooooooooo! It's time to combine two of Shark Liver Oil's favourite things - christmas and ghost stories! Yes, it's the first of a three part extravaganza about the Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol. Ebeneezer Scrooge is a brooding, anti-yuletilde eco-warrior who…
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The Catcher in The Rye 3: Don't Wake the Maid!
TW: Abuse It's the third and final part of Shark Liver Oil's page by page guide to The Catcher in the Rye! We'll join Holden as he sneaks into mum and dad's place (don't wake the maid!), goes on the run (again) and begins a one man crusade to rid the world of rude graffiti. We'll also discuss the...
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The Catcher in the Rye 2: Where's Holden?
We're back, ya phonies, with another slice of our take on this definitely-not-dated-but-actually-classic literature. This week, we're watching Holden deal with a pimp, a taxi driver, at least two overprivileged wankers, two nuns, an old flame and some ducks. And Dave even finds something to like...
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The Catcher In The Rye 1: Anyone Fancy a Pint?
It's time for a new book and Shark Liver Oil is keeping it classical but cycling forward a couple of hundred years from Jane Austen - to bring you JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye! This week we're discussing chapters 1-12. We answer important questions like: does Holden Caulfield have ADHD?...
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Pride & Prejudice 4: Shake That Moneymaker
We're reached the end of the road for Pride and Prejudice, but it's not going out without a fight. We've got deathmatches; we've got mobster pimps; we've even got Judi Dench's massive biceps. We've got it all - and for this edition, we've got a roundup of the various views from across the…
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Pride & Prejudice 3: Big C
Get ready for more wedding making hijinks with the third part of Shark Liver Oil's coverage of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Mr Darcy makes an indecent (or at least inappropriate) proposal, Lydia runs off with a man in uniform, Mrs Bennet recovers from a mystery illness and Big C offers his...
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Pride & Prejudice 2: Pimp Mummy
We go further into the world of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's classic novel of manners, and discover the chances of a Kevin Smith adaptation are higher than you might think. Also featuring the world's worst marriage proposal, an unexpected comparison with Dumb and Dumber, and Dave's massive...
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Pride & Prejudice 1: Get Married or Die Tryin
It's time for a change of pace here at Shark Liver Oil as we delve into the world of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. In part 1 we read to chapter 17. Along the way we'll get drunk with Darcy, get sick with Jane, get bored with Mr Collins, get quizzical with Elizibeth and join Mrs Bennett on…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
We take a book, split it into a few pieces, then podcast about it. Listen to us get to grips with some of your favourite old classics or pick up something new and read along with us! Get in touch with any comments or just tell us which book we should be doing next.. email [email protected] or tweet @sharkliveroilSo Far, Shark Liver Oil has read: The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest HemingwayThe Hobbit, JRR Tolkien The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern Zombie Apocalypse! Stephen JonesA Game Of Thrones, George RR MartinA Clash Of Kings, George RR MartinA Storm Of Swords, George RR MartinWatchmen, Alan Moore and Dave GibbonsPride and Prejudice, Jane AustenThe Catcher in the Rye, JD SalingerThe Mist, Stephen KingA Christmas Carol, Charles DickensThe Goblins Who Stone a Sexton, Charles DickensI Am Legend, Richard MathesonMort, Terry Pratchett
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