Episode 13 - Make Like A Wench And Peach And Resign

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This week your two bookends read chapter 5 and 6 of the Eye of Argon by Jim Theis, in what frankly ended up as a far too long episode. The chapter is full of shivs, vomit, testicular punishment, Mrifk and epilepsy, to name but a few of the many ingredients.

More than ever, the contents of these chapters make us have to seriously question our 16 year old Jim Theis, but in this case he got around this close examination by making these chapters so long your bookends Peter and Louis lose the will to live long before reaching the chapter summary. Don’t worry, we’ll be finishing the story next week, and we’ll remember all these wrongs perpetrated against us. Probably.

There’s nobody to support if you want to read the Eye Of Argon, but you can give an online copy a read here:
https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/sf/eyeargon/eyeargon.htm

Episode 12 - Chekhov's Rat

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This week your two bookends read chapter 3, 3.5 and 4 of the Eye of Argon by Jim Theis, where Grignr sits in the dark, considering how much less he eats when he does nothing, we get a completely unexplained cutaway to some pimpin shamen (sic) hanging about where we get a glimpse of the titular Eye of Argon, before going back to possibly the longest chapter so far, where Grignr fights with a rat, and nothing else of note occurs. However, to our delight this life or death tussle with a rodent does provide Grignr with his first workable escape plan.

As ever, this description does no justice to the baffling prose employed by the dearly departed Theis.

There’s nobody to support if you want to read the Eye Of Argon, but you can give an online copy a read here:
https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/sf/eyeargon/eyeargon.htm

Episode 11 - Surly Beard Of Mrifk

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After a long Christmas break, your two bookends decide to mix things up to celebrate crossing the 1/3 hurdle of The Way The Stars Fall by reading a different short story, infamous in its awfulness – The Eye Of Argon by Jim Theis. A slight shake up also in that, due to both the shortness and the lack of copyright concerns, we have decided to read through the story in its entirety and makes comments as we go. To be honest, for the most part we just read the book while Peter tries to stop himself from fainting from laughter induced giddiness. It galls me to say that the Eye Of Argon is such an entity there isn’t too much your bookends can add that the book doesn’t say for itself.

But my god is it funny.

We only read the first two chapters here; we expect it will only take another 2 or 3 episodes to finish the rest.

There’s nobody to support if you want to read the Eye Of Argon, but you can give an online copy a read here:
https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/sf/eyeargon/eyeargon.htm