In this week’s episode, R.S. Benedict is joined by Gareth and Langdon of Death Sentence, a podcast about books for people who hate books, podcasts and capitalism but like metal. And in order to Rite Gud, you’ve got to Reed Gud — in particular, why you need to read books other than Harry Potter.
Obviously, there’s nothing wrong with reading and enjoying Harry Potter. But you also need to read other books. Cultural intake is like a diet. There’s nothing wrong with eating chicken fingers and fries sometimes, but to be healthy you really need a variety of foods, and as an adult you probably should develop a more refined palate than just eating the same tater tots and spaghettiOs you lived on as a kid.
In this episode, the first of a two-part series, we’re looking at the wide variety of fiction you should read. (Next time is all the poetry, non-fiction and more you should read.)
Sources/Additional Reading:
- Death Sentence
- Death Sentence Twitter
- Death Sentence Facebook
- Rob Liefeld
- Rob Liefeld Nike Ad
- Save The Cat
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Beloved
- MacBeth
- Ursula K. LeGuin
- C.J. Cherryh
- Kelly Link
- Ted Chiang
- Nnedi Okorafor
- H.P. Lovecraft
- Philip K. Dick
- Black Mirror
- Jorge Luis Borges
- The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
- Margaret Atwood
- Cormac McCarthy
- Donna Tartt
- The Goldfinch
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- David Mitchell
- China Mieville
- Iain M. Banks
- Shirley Jackson
- Abbey Mei Otis
- Melmoth the Wanderer
- Les Chants de Maldoror
- The Pillow Book
- Dream of the Red Chamber
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms
- The Odyssey
- Orlando Furioso
- Don Quixote
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- War and Peace
- William Faulkner
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ulysses
About Rite Gud: R.S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is producing Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC. Rite Gud is a Kittysneezes production. If you have questions, comments and concerns, email ritegud – at – kittysneezzes – dot – com. Rite Gud is also on Patreon, at patreon.com/ritegud. Patrons receive access to the official Kittysneezes Discord, exclusive episodes, critiques and more.
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