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Shark Liver Oil
by Shark Liver Oil Podcast
Page by page guides to the books you love and the books you love to hate.
Episodes
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Jurassic Park 3: Alan!
"They were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should!" Shark Liver Oil returns with a canter through the Jurassic Park film where it all started to really go off the rails. From the moment a talking dinosaur appears in a dream sequence to the improbable...
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MR James - Eldritch Kazoo from the Nameless Beyond
It's Halloween so it's time for A SPOOOOOOOKY STORY! This time we've got a new author to us, a giant of the ghost story genre, a man so good at writing creepy stuff he can make it funny as well - MR James (Monty to his mates). Join us as we encounter some VERY silly decisionmaking, some...
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Wolf Hall Pt2: An Occult History Of Britain
Whew! It's been a long time coming and it's a hell of a long episode. We navigate our way through what turns out to be a huge chunk of the book in Part 2. It's mostly a history lesson, filling us in on Thomas and Wolsey: The Early Years. There are highs, lows, a few laughs and some absolutely and...
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Wolf Hall Pt1: World Class Basics - The Thomas Cromwell Story
Hello again old friend! Shark Liver Oil returns with a readthrough of Hilary Mantell's Wolf Hall. In Part 1 we meet our rags to riches hustler Thomas Cromwell as as he starts his ascent to become one of King Henry VIII's most trusted advisors. We're introduced to some of the main characters of…
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Pt4: Danger in the Chamber
The final part of our readthrough of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling. You've heard of Hell in a Cell, well this is Danger in the Chamber as the book ends in a multiple threat matchup between Harry, Volders, a basilisk, a phoenix, a hat, a sword, Ron and a self-aggrandising...
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Pt3: HP The Brand
The third of our four parter on Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Important questions abound including: just how bad are the terms and conditions for the Hogwarts teaching staff? Why won't Harry take his glasses off to play Quiddich? And why oh why won't any of the adults do something…
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Pt2: Gilderoy Lockhart, Vainglorious Buffoon
IT'S TIME for another installment of our read-through of the second Harry Potter book! This time out we've gotmore fallout from the Car Caper, surprising shifts of comedy and darkness, and, above all, more on how on earth Dumbledore chooses these teachers. And the promise of more capers to come!…
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Pt1: Gaming The House Cup
We've returned with our read-through of the second Harry Potter book. This week we enjoy all the fun and frolicks of a totally normal Dursley evening hosting a leading member of the drill industry, a bit of light grand theft auto involving a disappearing car, ancient tree vandalism and some…
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Halloween Spooky Special - The Tell-Tale Heart
The crypt door creaks, the bat flaps against the uncaring moon, and strange, uncanny things happen, such as Shark Liver Oil releasing another podcast episode! WE'RE BACK and as always it's our favourite tradition, the Halloween Spooky Special, that's made us revenant once more. This time it's…
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Christmas Special: It's a Wonderful Life
Dave has never seen it, Matt has loved it for years, and a surprisingly large number of people online think it's got problems - and it bloody has - but the good shines through, and it's a lovely old job. It's a Wonderful Life has elderly angels in questionable underclothes, remarkably clear...
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Halloween Spooky Special: Welcome To Dead House
We've gone back to the Goosebumps well for our Halloween Spooky Special this year. It's the first one in the series, so probably the best one right? We encounter a spooky house, some spooky kids and a man in a cowboy hat who lures children into his car. Doesn't get more horrific than that. Get…
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Harry Potter 1.4 A Thousand Slytherin Calculators
In the final part of our read-through of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, we continue to be blown away by the quality of what we’ve got to read. And it’s not just the writing - it’s the sheer chutzpah of McGonagall, kneecapping her own house in the cup competition. It’s the sheer…
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Harry Potter 1.3 Come on Lads, it's Hufflepuff
In part 3 of our read-through of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone, we have our first encounter with Quidditch and it's one for the ages. In Harry's second game the entire hopes of Gryffindor House rest once again on the shoulders of a first year student, the referee is…
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Harry Potter 1.2 Hogwarts Megabus
It’s part 2 of our read-through of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (or Sorceror’s Stone if you’re in America), and the magic continues! We discover some key information this time: Snape’s pre-game ritual, the secret baller life of Hufflepuff House, and the questionable quality of the...
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Harry Potter 1.1 Turns Out He's A Wizard
Welcome to the first part of our read through of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's/ Sorcerer's Stone (depending on where you live). In this episode we meet Harry for the first time, gasp in awe as a middle aged drill-makng executive has a complete nervous breakdown and wonder whether lovely…
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Christmas Special: Home Alone
Happy New Year! It might be a little late but you bet your ass that we recorded this in full festive mode on Christmas Eve. So sit back, relax and re-live an absolute Christmas classic as we take you through all the thrills, spills and suspected broken bones of that Christmas classic Home Alone!...
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Halloween Special: The Fall of the House of Usher
It’s time for the Halloween spooky special! Every year we read one of literature’s great scary classics (except for when we do Goosebumps) and this year it’s a doozy - a readthrough and discussion of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher. As always we’ll be digging into the huge and...
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Game of Thrones S8E6: The Iron Throne
Did you hate it? Did you love it? Whatever you thought, it’s the END OF THE SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, and we’re sprinting through the finish line with a degree of spriteliness that is WHOLLY INAPPROPRIATE to the ending of the story. But what can you do? Shark’s gonna Shark. This final episode of our...
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Game of Thrones S8E5: The Bells
We may as well nail our colours to the mast straight away with this one.. we liked it. Sure, there were a few issues with how we got to this point, which meant one or two of the character moments may have not quite been what they could have been, but take a step back and leave your predictions at...
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Game of Thrones S8E4: The Last of the Starks
We’re watching the last season of Game of Thrones so we can get some narrative closure on the series, and it’s all controversy, all the time this week. We’re going through Episode 4 of Game of Thrones’ eighth season, which is called The Last of The Starks, which does not contain anything you…
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Game of Thrones S8E3: The Long Night
Matt and Dave talk you through the biggest battle yet on Game of Thrones, an episode that ended up somewhere between a thrilling rollercoaster ride and a loud, confusing trundle through a ghost train. We loved so much about this episode - the Dothraki charge, the Unsullied last stand, Beric and...
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Game of Thrones S8E2: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
We’re getting our Song of Ice and Fire fix from the TV, and this week, it’s episode 2 of the final series of Game of Thrones: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. It’s a tense one, and perhaps the most unsettling thing is that an awful lot of characters have suspiciously complete character arcs. Grey...
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Game of Thrones S8E1: Winterfell
We're covering the final season of Game of Thrones. Yes, this is supposed to be a books podcast but we're sick of waiting for George to finish his writing so we're turning to television for closure. We'll bring you a week by week recap of every episode. But wait! There's more! This week we have a...
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Lord of the Flies Part 4 - Fun and Games?
In the fourth and final part of Lord of the Flies: Roger releases a boulder, Ralph runs for his life and Piggy takes a tumble. Will any of the boys get off the island alive? We've also got your reviews and thoughts on the book. [email protected] is the place to get in touch if you…
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Lord of the Flies Part 3 - Make Me Look Impressive, Dammit
We read the classics with a sideways view, and today we’re reading from ’Shadows and Tall Trees' to ‘A View to a Death’ in William Golding’s classic ‘Lord of the Flies’. We’ll level with you: it gets dark. And it’s a masterpiece. As always, get in touch with your thoughts: @sharkliveroil on…
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Lord of the Flies Part 2 - A Bad Slag In The Jungle
It's part 2 of our read through of The Lord Of The Flies by William Golding. Ralph discovers that being the only adult on an island of semi-feral children isn't much fun, Piggy loses a lens and Jack kills a pig. Oh, and we meet the breakout star of Lord of the Flies, littleun Phil. Who may or may...
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Lord of the Flies Part 1 - Weaponised Choirboys
It’s a new book! We read the classics, and take them as seriously as we can, and we’re reading William Golding’s classic The Lord of the Flies! This week we’ve got some killer tropical heat, some seriously poorly-thought-through playground tactics, and, somehow, choirboy stormtroopers. Is…
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The Lost World Movie, Part 2 - Where Is Vince Vaughan?
It's been a long time coming but here it is, part two of our scene by scene review of The Lost World - the second film in the Jurassic Park series. Raptors go on the rampage on Isla Sorna and then a Tyrannosaur goes on the rampage in San Diego. The results of the latter are so horrific that the...
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The Lost World Movie, Part 1 - Maternally Outraged Tyrannosaur
SOMETHING. HAS. SURVIVED. It’s part 1 of our watch-through of the second Jurassic Park movie, The Lost World, and we’ve got it all - Vince Vaughn trying to act principled, surprisingly respectful predator-prey relationships, and Pete Postlethwaite making it all seem someone else’s fault. Grab…
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Halloween Spooky Special: The Cuckoo Clock Of Doom
It's that time of year again. Time for ghosts and ghouls and the HALLOWEEN SPOOKY SPECIAL! This year we're going back to the goosebumps well, with RL Stine's The Cuckoo Clock of Doom. When one pathetic twelve year old is so hated by his own family that he resorts to casual antique vandalism to…
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The Lost World 5: Brian The Useless Raptor Rides Again
It's the fifth and final part of our readthrough of Michael Crichton's The Lost World. It's an action packed finale with beloved and not so beloved characters meeting their end, a much lauded reappearence of Brian the Useless Raptor and Levine undergoes some kind of multiple personality disorder....
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The Lost World 4: It's Just a Big Frog
It is ALL GOING OFF this week in our read-through of Michael Crichton’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park. After the calm, the storm: and we’ve got it all. Over-confident scientists with circus-sized boomboxes, inevitable death, and at least one genius engineering career cut off far too soon. And…
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The Lost World 3: Does A Wild Parasaur Shit In The Woods?
Part 3 of our readthrough of The Lost World is here. I'm not going to lie to you, not a lot happens in this part of the book. Lots of talk about dinosaurs becoming extinct, there's another possible sighting of Tobias Carnotaurus and Bisoyn's best boy dabbled with a bit of casual attempted murder....
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The Lost World 2: Tobias Fünke-saurus
We’re back with part 2 of our readthrough with dumb commentary on Michael Crichton’s sequel to Jurassic Park, The Lost World! And we’ve got, as ever, everything on the pitch: a burgeoning bromance between Dave and a fictional character, questionable risk-management decisions, and above all,...
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The Lost World 1: The Edge Of Chaos
Welcome to the edge of chaos. Welcome to the island where dinosaurs roam free. Welcome.. to The Lost World! We're finally returning to Matt's favourite subject - dinosaurs - with Michael Crichton's follow up to Jurassic Park. In this episode we meet the world's most annoying dinosaur fanatic, the...
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The War of the Worlds 6: Flight of the Adaptations
This time we’re looking at the different adaptations of The War of the Worlds - from 70s prog-rock operas to surprisingly groundbreaking 50s special effects (which still look crap), all the way through Tom Cruise being horrible to Andy Dufresne and some…weirdly appropriate public sculpture...
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The War of the Worlds 5: They Are All Dead
It's the fifth and final part of our read through of The War of The Worlds by HG Wells! If you haven't read to the end of the book then you better watch out as we are now entering heat ray grade spoiler territory. In which the martians finally get what's coming to them, the Earth (well, London)...
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The War of the Worlds 4: Sympathy for the Curate
Reading through H.G. Wells’ sci-fi classic, with extra tomfoolery. This week we’re reading from Chapter 1 of Part 2, Under Foot, to the start of Chapter 7, The Man on Putney Hill, and we’ve got tension! Tension! Tension! And a Roomba from outer space! Who could ask for more? Next week we’re going...
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The War of the Worlds 3: The HMS Badass
Join us for part three of our readthrough of The War Of The Worlds. There's plenty of amazing experiences to be had this week; from a comedy 19th century Benny Hll chase through war torn southern England to one of the great naval fights in literature as the Thunder Child makes her death or glory...
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The War of the Worlds 2: IKEA Flat-Pack War Machine
It’s part 2 of our read through with extra silliness of H.G. Wells’ classic, The War of the Worlds - this week we’ve got profound peril, profounder philosophy, and profoundly questionable French accents; all this, and weaponised doorbells too. We spoil you, we really do. This week we're reading...
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The War of the Worlds 1: The Eve Of War
It's time for a new book and this time, it's WAR! And not just any war. THE WAR! OF THE WORLDS! We're reading through HG Wells's classic and let me tell you we're both loving every page. In part one we meet the chronically exhausted invaders who are possibly high on oxygen, the comically broad...
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Christmas Special: Jingle All The Way
It's the most wonderful time of the year! And to celebrate we're taking on a classic of world cinema. It's a festive treat featuring a world renowned international star. It's a combination of balls to the wall action (a reindeer gets punched in the face) and good old family fun (bad people get...
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Treasure Island, Part 6 - Jim on a Rope
It’s the final part of our read-through of the classic Treasure Island, and we’ve got it all: steampunk pistols, unexpected cameos from mediocre English football managers, and character with a level of sangfroid so collossal as to amount to genius. And because it’s the last episode for this book,...
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Treasure Island, Part 5 - Questionable Tactics, Jim Lad
It's Part 5 of our read-through and comment-along on pirate classic Treasure Island! This week we're reading Part 5, My Sea Adventure; and, astonishingly, we're reading about an adventure, on the sea! Also some gentlemanly smack-downs, some realy stupid ideas, and some more really really…
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Halloween Spooky Special: Hop Frog
Woooo! Wooooo! Wooooooo! It's that time of year again! So get ready for another Halloween Spooky Special! This year we're going back to Edgar Allen Poe with a readthrough of his short story, Hop Frog. When a vertically challenged disabled court jester gets sick and tired of being pushed around by...
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Treasure Island Part 4: Right Between The Eyes
In part 4 of Shark Liver Oil's read through of Treasure Island, it all goes off in a big way. The officers break cover and go on the offensive. The pirates retaliate and all hell breaks loose. There are canon shots, musket fire, cutlass fights and an all out assault on the stockade. Pirates vs...
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Treasure Island Part 3 - Angry Toddlers with Cutlasses
We read the classics, and this week it's Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. This week we've got an ill-advised adventure ashore, some seriously short-term thinking, and the world's first intercontinental ballistic crutch - as well as our continuing obsession with the greatest line in the...
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Treasure Island Part 2: The Bottom of the Apple Barrel
You're in for a rollocking good time as Shark Liver Oil takes on part 2 of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic take of swashbuckling bastardy. We spend some more time with four times Hispaniola Employee Of The Month Winner, Long "wink and the guns" John Silver, we delve further into Trelawney's...
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Treasure Island Part 1 - Yaaarrrrrr
Shiver me clichés! Keel-haul the classic adventure literary tropes! Above all, don't underestimate blind pirates! It's TREASURE ISLAND! We're doing Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of derring-do, derring-theft and derring-idiot aristocrats, and it's a treat. Swords! Scars! Mysterious black...
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Game of Thrones S7E7: The Wolf and the Dragon
It's the third in Shark Liver Oil's "Three Game Of Thrones Podcasts In A Week" Trilogy. And it's the Season 7 grand finale! It's got it all: an all-star political royal rumble, a switcheroo to end all switcheroos that does for Littlefinger, graphic incest on a boat and a wight in a box. Oh, and…
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