Did You Read The Book?
A comparative podcast where movie buffs and bookworms come together to talk about stories and their adaptations that we love, hate, or love to hate.
Episodes
TRIGGER WARNING: This episode covers content around violence, murder, death, sexual abuse, trauma, and body gore. Please be advised.
Welcome back to another episode of Did You Read The Book? ! Join me and my two stellar guest, Dan Rector and Julie McCulloch-Francis, as we go down the biggest rabbit hole yet to discover DC comic tropes, discover more and more about the works of Alan Moore, and see in real time how little I know abo...
Y'all, how are we already to Season 6!? Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the support and for being a super duper nerd with me each episode. Sending the biggest hugs and kisses to all near and far. I'm so excited to get into another year of silly convos with silly guests and hope you will enjoy them as much as I do. Cheers to all and thank you again for your continued support!
Erin
TRIGGER WARNING: This episode covers content around violence, death, public executions, suicide, psychological and physical trauma, self harm, sexual abuse, substance abuse, and emotional abuse. Please be advised.
Welcome back to another episode of Did You Read The Book? ! Join me and my guest, Julie McCulloch-Francis, for a true ranter where we unpack all the cringy cinema tropes of white washing, racism, and stylistic choices co...
TRIGGER WARNING: This episode covers content around violence, death, suicide, psychological and physical trauma, self harm, child abuse, sexual abuse, substance abuse, and emotional abuse. Please be advised.
Welcome back to another episode of Did You Read The Book? ! Join me and my glorious returning guest, Julie McCulloch-Francis, as we unpack dysfunctional love, garbage can human beings, and find out really fast how we eac...
TRIGGER WARNING: This episode covers content around violence, murder, death, suicide, psychological and physical trauma, and self harm. Please be advised.
Welcome back to another episode of Did You Read The Book? ! Join me and my guest, Daniel Palmer, as we break down (both academically and mentally) a politically charged story to talk through radical regimes, societal alienation, and the age old question of "Why eel?" in Fahrenhe...
TRIGGER WARNING: This episode covers content around violence, murder, death, suicide, genocide, sexual abuse, rape, psychological and physical trauma, religious extremism, and religious persecution. Please be advised.
Welcome back to another episode of Did You Read The Book? ! Join me and my guests, Sheree Baxter McLaughlin and Daniel Palmer, as we have a real deep discussion around religious extremism, beautiful prose structures,...
TRIGGER WARNING: This episode covers content around violence, murder, war, death, brutality, drug usage, substance abuse, PTSD, animal abuse, racial injustice, hate crimes, and racism. Please be advised.
Welcome back to another episode of Did You Read The Book? ! Join me and my frequent flyer guest, Julie McCulloch-Francis, as we dive real deep into the past to talk about classic Greek themes, wacky mythos, and how in the heck doe...
TRIGGER WARNING: This episode covers content around violence, war, murder, death, brutality, animal abuse, and body gore. Please be advised.
Welcome back to another episode of Did You Read The Book? ! Join me and my returning guest (and renown author!), Dan Rector, as we redeem ourselves by diving back into the classic sci-fi realm to nerd out over beautiful world building, the complexities of culture, and have a good ol' squeal a...
TRIGGER WARNING: This episode covers content around violence, murder, death, emotional abuse, and physical abuse. Please be advised.
Welcome back to another episode of Did You Read The Book? ! Join me and my returning guest, Meghan Palmer, as we have a massive scream into the void to unpack the major differences between stellar writing and fever dream creation in Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine.
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TRIGGER WARNING: This episode covers content around violence, murder, death, sexual abuse, non consensual sex, war, war crimes, and body gore. Please be advised.
Welcome back to another episode of Did You Read The Book? ! Join me and my guest, Dan Rector, (now a famous author!) as we come back for yet another hot mess in the adaptation world to rant about character flaws, the nonsense that was the early 2000's cinema style, and la...
TRIGGER WARNING: This episode covers content around violence, murder, death, sexual abuse, non consensual sex, psychological trauma, and body gore. Please be advised.
Welcome back to another episode of Did You Read The Book? ! Join me and my dynamic duo guests, Julie McCulloch-Francis and Daniel Palmer, as we face plant into yet another Eldritch horror vibe of terrifying body snatcher tropes, crazy head canon theories, and just a ...
TRIGGER WARNING: This episode covers content around violence, physical and mental abuse, death, murder and war. Please be advised.
Welcome back to another episode of Did You Read The Book? ! Join me and my guest, Dan Rector, for round 2 of Dune where we dig deeper into the character development, the intrigue, and finally compare the adaptation to the original Dune by Frank Herbert.
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My beautiful spectacular fam! Just like that, another year done and we are getting into season 5! Y'all are astounding and I continue to be impressed with everyone's participation and support. Thank you for joining me on this nerdy journey and here's to the next crazy year!
Erin
TRIGGER WARNING: This episode covers content around violence, physical and mental abuse, death, murder and war. Please be advised.
Welcome back to another episode of Did You Read The Book? ! Join me and my returning guest, Dan Rector, as we have a part 1 dive into the beauty of classic Sci-Fi, nerd out over the incredible intricacies of world building, and just a full on rant about everything Denis Villeneuve in Dune by Frank Herb...
TRIGGER WARNING: This episode covers content around mental abuse, toxic relationships, loss of identity, and sexual assault. Please be advised.
Welcome back to another episode of Did You Read The Book? ! Join me and my one and only best guest, Julie McCulloch-Francis, as we lose our minds over why this is a crowd favorite, the perplexities of problematic relationships, and tie it off with squealing over the dream that is Health Le...
TRIGGER WARNING: This episode covers content around violence, physical and mental abuse, suicide, death, depression, and toxic relationships. Please be advised.
Welcome back to another episode of Did You Read The Book? ! Join me and my brand new guest, Griffin Goldenbagen, as we dive into a real serious topic of the fluidity of relationships, the joys and pains of emotional and personal growth, and what it means to be human in Nor...
Welcome back to another episode of Did You Read The Book? ! Join me and my two stellar guests, Julie and Monica, as we have a severe nerd out over the beauty of animation, good ol' fashion love pairing tropes, and give Monica a lot of spice for her horribly out of line opinions on voice actors (jk we love her, but still) in How To Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell.
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Arcane created by Riot Games, Christian Lin...
Welcome back to another episode of Did You Read The Book? ! Join me and my returning guest, Mary, as we have a nerd fest over beautiful art styles, Nordic lore, and the beauty of works of passion in Hilda by Luke Pearson.
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A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Nosferatu directed by Robert Eggers (2024)
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horrors directed by F. W. Murnau (...
TRIGGER WARNING: This episode covers content around violence, murder, death, and toxic relationships. Please be advised.
Welcome back to another episode of Did You Read The Book? ! Join me and my boomerang of a guest, Julie McCulloch-Francis, as we talk through an age old story of sadness, woe, and funky adaptation choices in Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare.
Our Recommendations
Dr. Who created by Sydney Newman
The Devi...
TRIGGER WARNING: This episode covers content around war, death, violence, and body gore. Please be advised.
Welcome back to another episode of Did You Read The Book? ! Join me and my lovely guest, Monica Chen, for her debut episode (yay!) as we go real deep into the beauty of manga, incredibly depicted mech suits, and have some strong thoughts around alien design dos and don'ts in All You Need Is Kill illustrated by Takeshi Obata.
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