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DGW Episode 665

VCR Co-Pilot VCR Time-Recording Remote Control Link: Joseph Enterprises Dick's Gadget Warehouse Inspired by the VCR Plus in Episode 560, listener Karl M. from Phoenix, Arizona saw the VCR Co-Pilot at Goodwill for $1 and bought it for Dick's Gadget Warehouse. The VCR Co-Pilot was designed to avoid...

loucindy

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Never Let Me Go is not on my official book list for the year, but I've been curious about it for a while. I wondered why there is so little information about the plot available. After reading it I understand why. The whole plot is suspended from the idea that a group of private school children are...

loucindy

Lost in Place by Mark Salzman

I often feel like I'm in a foreign country in Connecticut. I can't relate to the residents' attitudes, thoughts, or behaviors. So when I heard about this memoir of growing up in Connecticut I thought, "Finally, something that will give me some insight into the minds of Nutmeggers." Further, I have...

loucindy

The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson is brilliant. Surely if Edgar Allan Poe and Virginia Woolf could have had a love child it would have been Shirley Jackson. She writes about women: the things they don't say, the things they hope for but can't attain, the things that make them feel trapped. And then she makes it...

loucindy

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

This was my first Pynchon book. I have always heard lots of great things about this author, so I was eager to read it. Now, I just don't know what to say about it. A story about covert postmen? They were organized and stealthy...like a cross between organized crime and martial arts experts. Maybe...