A Deadman's Books

On this episode we look at the summer blockbuster of 2026, Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey starring Matt Damon. Thanks for listening! Resources for today's episode: The Odyssey by Christopher Nolan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When Odysseus leaves to fight in the Trojan War, his way back home becomes a little complicated. Meanwhile, his wife Penelope and son Telemachus are fighting off suitors who are trying to take the throne in Ithaca. Telemachus must find his father. Odysseus must find his way home. In today's episode, we look at Gareth Hinds adaptation of Homer's the Odyssey done via graphic novel. Thanks for listen...

What if you had never watched or read The Lord of the Rings but only played the Lego version? This week, Hollis tells us his perspective of LOTR, The Hobbit, and college football season. We roll on with our summer of Tolkien with our field trip to the video game, Lego: The Hobbit Thanks for listening! #booktube #booktok #bookstagram #ReadersofYouTube #Bookish #CurrentlyReading #BookCommunity #Book...

Continuing our Big Summer Read with the Lord of the Rings, we review Peter Jackson's 2002 adaptation of The Two Towers. Do we like the movie better than the book? Find out what we think in this week's episode. #booktube #booktok #bookstagram #ReadersofYouTube #Bookish #CurrentlyReading #BookCommunity #BookRecommendations #BookReview #BookLovers #Lit #Literature #tolkien #LOTR #fellowship #lordofth...

As Frodo and Sam continue their journey towards Mordor, we also continue our Big Summer Read. The Fellowship has broken. While Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas chase an orc party to save Merry and Pippin, Frodo and Sam have ventured off to destroy the ring on their own with their new guide...Gollum. Tolkien's legendary tale continues to weave its yarn as the march to destroy the ring continues. Thanks...

In this episode of Vintage ADMB, we go back to earlier this summer where we sat down and talked to Randy Cribbs about his novel, The Vessel: Tinaja (episode 88). To pair with the theme of eternal life and the expectations that may come with that which we discussed with Dennis E. Taylor's novel, We are Legion (We are Bob), we've pulled out a part from the interview in which Randy talks about the th...

When Bob sells his tech company, he immediately goes and commits to cryogenically freezing himself upon his death. The ironic thing is that it comes within that week. When Bob is brought back to life in the future, he soon learns that he is an artificial intelligence program...and things are different. A Christian theocracy has taken control of North American, Europe has become the United States o...

Opening with a critique on two text-book writers, C.S. Lewis ventures into those who are attempting condition society and bend it against what he calls the tao. The Tao that is what is inherently good. Lewis defines it has a moral compass that appears not just in a specific religion, but in every person. The discernment of what is right from wrong. Lewis goes on to list those who are trying to sha...

On this episode of A Deadman's Books we throw back to episode 69 to when we talked with the legend Bill Landry about many topics, one including his life in theatre. Bill talk to us about his one man play, Einstein the Man, his life in theatre, and an event that took place while participating in a college theater troupe. #booktube #booktok #bookstagram #ReadersofYouTube #Bookish #CurrentlyReading #...

When meeting with the National Lab in Oak Ridge asking his advice on how to get science packaged for children, Bill Landry had an idea: what if Albert Einstein could come and speak to them himself. Soon, the one man play, Einstein the Man was in production and traveling throughout Appalachia. As with anything with Bill Landry, the play started in 1979 and was shown over 1,000 times. In 2000, for i...

Happy 4th of July, America. To celebrate the good ol' U.S. of A., we have put together five books that we think are essential to the American Lit experience. Also, at the end of the episode we play another game: best American author stays. Who does Jason Crockett list as his greatest American author of all time? Thanks for listening! Theme song for A Deadman's Books:Surfing! by automaticbananas #b...

Continuing with our Big Summer Read with Tolkien, we go back to the movies where we examine Peter Jackson's adaptation of The Fellowship of the Ring starring Elijah Wood, Ian McKellan, Viggo Mortensn, Christopher Lee, and many more. We talk about aesthetic choices, differences, casting choices, and more. Thanks for listening! Resources for today's episode: The Fellowship of the Ring directed by Pe...

After receiving his uncle Bilbo's ring on the occasion of Bilbo's eleventy-first birthday, Frodo soon finds out there is more to this ring than simple tricks. After Gandalf the Grey does his research, they soon find that it is indeed the One Ring created by the dark lord Sauron in the pits of Mt. Doom. Frodo soon finds himself on a journey with eight other companions with the goal of destroying th...

When a peaceful Timucuan chief is gifted a drinking vessel that is made out of an unknown material he soon finds that it possesses power that can lead those who drink from it immortality...and a maddening rage. The chief soon begins to harshly punish those around him and becomes war crazy as he invades surrounding tribes. Those of his village label the vessel "Tinaja" or demon. Flash forward to St...

Margo has her dream life planned, Dream husband, dream job, dream kid, and dream house. So when her coveted house hits the market, she will do whatever it takes to make sure that she obtains the house of her wonder after being denied so many times in the past. We're asking the tough questions: How far is too far when you have become fixated with something? When you should abort a lie if you think...

Norman Maclean looks back on a time in his life in which his family tasked him to "help" his brother-in-law (that he doesn't like) through the Maclean family trade of fly-fishing. Asking his expert younger brother Paul to help provide him company, Maclean talks about how he doesn't even know how to "help" his own brother who needs it. The story culminates in a final fishing trip between a dad and...

After growing up in a strict, fundamental Mormon home, Tara Westover overcame her odds of abuse, mistreatment, distrust, and a home structure that was against her just because she was a woman. We're asking the tough questions: What makes family ties so strong? Can we overcome obstacles laid before us? Is that really what the Westover house looks like? Hannah Randolph joins us as we answer these an...

BIG SUMMER READ IS HERE!. Join us as we look to continue the ADMB annual Big Summer Read. After last year's reading of Stephen King's The Stand, we have decided to read J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Join us and read a long with us. We will have check-ins at the end of every book. Email us or comment your thoughts on the book. We hope that you will join us as we go back to Middle Eart...

This week, academic, poet laureate of Cookeville, Tennessee, and mom Dr. Erin Hoover of Tennessee Tech University sits down to speak with us about her a couple of her poetry selections: her debut Barnburner and No Spare People. Hoover also talks to us about her inspirations as a poet, her life as a single-mother and academic, dealing with generative artificial intelligence in the classroom, and ev...

When Andy Dufresne is wrongly convicted for the double murder of his wife and her lover, he spends the next three decades of his life in The Shank methodically building up the prison library, maintaining a solo cell, and hammering a hole behind a poster for his escape to a dream that awaits him. We're asking the tough questions: Can anyone play it as cool as Andy Dufresne? Does life and literature...

When a school shooting takes place in a small southern town, Sheriff Titus Crown begins to pull a string that unravels a much deeper and sinister plot. S.A. Cosby's All the Sinners Bleed is dark, moody thriller that will have you reading until the very end. This week's curation: Silence of the Lambs (film) Miracle Creek by Angie Kim Double Indemnity by James Cain L.A. Noire (video game) #booktube...

After the NAP is elected into power, Ireland slowly descends into fascism. Suddenly teachers are vilified by the government. Larry Stack, teacher and leader of the teachers union, takes to the streets to lead his fellow teachers in a peaceful protest march. However, Larry is arrested and never heard from again leaving his wife Eilish alone with four children and a father suffering from dementia. P...

Why did F. Scott Fitzgerald make it so hot at the Plaza Hotel? What was Will Andrews really finding on his quest in Butcher's Crossing? Why is Mina Plover reminiscent of a siren in The Land Breakers? Why did it storm the night before Caesar's death in Shakespeare's play? Are Astrophage from Project Hail Mary vampires? Author's use many different devices to craft their stories that we fall for ever...

Alfred Mann was born into slavery. It was the only world that he ever knew. But after marrying Frankie from a nearby plantation, and learning through their first born-child that he has been forced to share his wife with his wife's white masters, Alfred begins to have thoughts of breaking free. Soon, he hears that the Union army is just on the other side of the river, and they are taking any runawa...

Two men are seeking redemption. Both of their hopes intersect and land on the same set of interviews to change their public image and restore them back to the figures that they once were. David Frost thinks that he will be going up against a loser, clumsy ex-president in Richard Nixon. Nixon thinks that he will be going up against softball questions from a British talk show host who is on the verg...