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“If we had happy endings, we’d all be under gravestones now.”

Books & Nachos is merging with Now Playing Podcast.  This Books & Nachos feed will no longer be updated as of September 1st.  If you want to continue to get Books & Nachos shows, please subscribe to Now Playing Podcast at NowPlayingPodcast.com

Books & Nachos is merging with Now Playing Podcast.  This Books & Nachos feed will no longer be updated as of September 1st.  If you want to continue to get Books & Nachos shows, please subscribe to Now Playing Podcast at NowPlayingPodcast.com

We cannot protect the young from harm. Pain must and will come.

This week Brock, Stuart, and Arnie graduate from Hogwarts as they complete JK Rowling’s seventh and final Harry Potter novel, The Deathly Hallows.  Is the boy wizard ready to lead the fight against a Ministry of Magic overtaken by Death Eaters?  Where exactly has Dark Lord Voldemort hidden the last piece of his soul?  And what is the real reason Professor Snape hates Harry so much?  Find out if your predictions for the conclusion come true.  Listen Now!     

“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

The world isn’t split between good people and Death Eaters.

There will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right

Our hosts howl at the moon about Rowling’s third Harry Potter novel.

Brock, Arnie, and Stuart invite you into their flying car as they head back to Hogwarts, and pry open the cover of The Chamber of Secrets. This second Harry Potter novel finds the boy wizard trying to unmask the Slytherin heir who threatens to commit genocide on Muggle-born classmates.  Was house elf Dobby right to warn children away from a school year that might petrify them?  Have a seat on the toilet and listen to the hosts moan about it all.  Listen Now!     

Every child in the world will know his name

Big Trouble with the Big Guy from the Big Apple

America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland. -- Tennessee Williams

Snake Plissken just wants to get away, but first, he’s got a bone to pick with his former president. In the third volume of BOOM! Studios’ Escape from New York series, the hero of John Carpenter’s iconic action film returns to his roots, breaking into the world’s largest prison to take down an arch nemesis. It’s the showdown this series has been building toward, and hosts Jakob and Jason are here to break it down. Could it overcome the campiness of Escape from Florida and the unneeded detour that was Escape from Siberia? Well, this one’s got a flying car. Nuff said.

Snake Plissken is back for war

So long New York, Snake Plissken’s a ‘Florida Man’ now

Want to know where Snake Plissken got his eyepatch?

Before it became one of the most beloved movies of all time, The Godfather was a blockbuster novel with characters and plot points that never made it to the screen.  Join long lost podcaster Stuart as he comes home to his Books & Nachos family and parses out all the changes made to Mario Puzo’s classic.

Ben's three-year-old brother Eric disappeared five years ago, but Ben continues to search. When Ben takes a job at the store where Eric vanished things are not all that they seem. Join Brock for his spoiler-free review of Bad Man to see if this is the perfect thriller to cap off your summer reading list!