We're back in the era of normal length books with Alcatraz vs The Shattered Lens!

Next month we'll be reading Infinity Blade Awakening & I Hate Dragons. Episode airs, March 25th.

Around 59 Minutes in, we ask if ADX actually does the math correctly, she does not.

References

A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snickett
Percy Jackson and The Olympians by Rick Riordan

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

Content warnings for this episode: abandonment, ableism, betrayal, bleeding, bullying, censorship, child abuse, child endangerment, classism, colonialism, conspiracies, cults, death, existentialism, fame, fatphobia, foster homes, Harry Potter, human sacrifice, imprisonment, insanity, J.K. Rowling, lying, mental illness, mind control, murder, neglect, oligarchy, prisons, racism, religion, royalty, self harm, self hatred, settler colonialism, stabbing, transphobia, undeath, wounds

This show is created by Graham Gillman, Taylor Lane, and Jack McLaughlan.

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We read Towers of Midnight, Book 13 of The Wheel of Time.

Next month we'll be reading all of Alcatraz vs The Shattered Lens, Episode Airs: Feb 18th.

Content warnings for this episode: ableism, addiction, age gap, amputation, betrayal, bleeding, body horror, body modification, broken bones , classism, colonization, death, domestic violence, fetishization, gaslighting, gender roles, hallucinations, insanity, J.K. Rowling, kink, knives, maiming, misogyny, murder, mutilation, rape, real world violence, religious extremism, self harm, sexual content, sexual violence, slavery, stabbing, strangulation, suicide/suicidal ideation, terminal illness, transphobia, trauma, undeath, Vietnam War, wounds and infection

Jordan Quote About Language: https://www.reddit.com/r/WoT/comments/1mv9wv/language_in_the_world_of_wot/

Interviews Jack Cited

https://aidanmoher.com/blog/2010/11/interviews/interview-brandon-sanderson-author-of-towers-of-midnight-and-the-way-of-kings/

https://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=547

Jack's Rankings

The Way of Kings
Warbreaker
Mistborn
Alcatraz vs. the Scrivener's Bones
The Hero of Ages
Elantris
Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians
Alcatraz vs. the Knights of Crystallia (Book 3)
The Well of Ascension

This show is created by Graham Gillman, Taylor Lane, and Jack McLaughlan.

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On this part two we finish The Way of Kings, making this comfortably our longest episode yet. Apologies for getting this out a day later than I said I would, the flu took me out.

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Content warnings for this episode: ableism, addiction, age gap, betrayal, bleeding, body horror, body modification, broken bones, caste systems, child abuse, child death, christian imagery, classism, colonization, death, decapitation, discussion of sexuality, disembowelment, domestic violence, exsanguination, gaslighting, genocide, human sacrifice, insanity, knives, maiming, mind control, misogyny, mormonism, murder, mutation, mutilation, racism, rape culture, religious conversion, religious extremism, self harm, settler colonialism, sexual content, sex work, slavery, slave races, stabbing, strangulation, suicide/suicidal ideation, surgery, terminal illness, undeath, wounds and infection

Works Mentioned

A Wizard of Earthsea

The Grace of Kings

Don Quixote

Exhalation

Stories of Your Life

Arrival

Le Mort de Arthur

David Graeber The Dawn of Everything

This show is created by Graham Gillman, Taylor Lane, and Jack McLaughlan.

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Our theme music is "goodnight kiss" by 2mello off the album midnight broadcasts. (https://2mello.net/)