In our show we take a look at the books that everyone seems to hate. We stand up for mocked and derided literature, a lone defender doing their best to fight the conditioned ideas of the court of public opinion.

Every episode a member of the group has to convince the rest of us that their assigned book has been unfairly judged. As a benchmark we're using goodreads.com, anything on their site with at least 100 reviews and a rating of less than 3 stars is, we think, deserving of a fair appeal hearing.

Our first few episodes are available NOW! You can listen on this page, go to our host page on Soundcloud, or subscribe thru iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, or using our RSS feed.

We’ve given up trying to get listed on GooglePlay. I’ll just call them ass-hats and leave it at that. We might add a news letter of some sort (don’t get your hopes up) and I guess something about the totally excellent people that help me make this damn thing.

If you’re not someone I actually know, I’m sort of stunned you’ve got as far as reading this. Have a look at the rest of the site, there’s some stuff you might like, or you might hate it. Either way, I bet you want to know which now.

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CW: Mentions of fatphobia, eating disorders, emotional abuse, ableism, dubious consent. Discussions of domestic abuse, homophobia, forced outing. 

Nemo tells G, Grace and Lisa about this week’s “frothy fun” Epic novel, Sweet Valley: Confidential. He’s like and she’s like and he’s like and then a man gets attacked by a shark. Will Nemo get close to convincing the others that this book has redeeming qualities? 

Twitter: @RePresentedPod

For the rest of our episodes: www.macdermog.com/RePresented 

Lisa’s improv team The Descendants are performing at the Camden fringe on August 12th and 19th for a fiver! https://cam.tickets.red61.com/performances.php?eventId=3113:5106 

Nemo & Grace’s podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1316532738

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cw: misogyny, eating disorders, drug use, animal testing, miscarriage mention, self harm, depression, sex trafficking mention, casual homophobia

Greg tells Shamini, Ed, Grace and G about this week’s “ribauld” series of vignettes - ‘Four Blondes’. Summer in the Hamptons becomes a government Chimpanzee conspiracy and there’s some unpatriotic sex. They ask the serious question - is this book just for blondes

Twitter: @RePresentedPod

For the rest of our episodes: www.macdermog.com/RePresented 

Adventurers Wanted Omens: https://www.facebook.com/events/346090332676312/

cw: drug use, drug addiction, stalking and harassment, suicide ideation, misogyny, homophobia, racism, dubious consent, fatphobia, sexual assault, conflation of paedophilia with homosexuality, romanticisation of paedophilia, r* slur

Lisa tells G, Nemo and Greg about James Franco's novel novel Actors Anonymous a Novel - a collection of gripping short stories, musings, streams of bitesize consciousnesses and er… poems about River Phoenix. I am the actor. Everyone is in me. 

Twitter: @RePresentedPod

For the rest of our episodes: www.macdermog.com/RePresented 

Satisfaction trailer: https://vimeo.com/360670076?fbclid=IwAR1kZJJFBLL2dbsNM2c66KjNuugYzxCyMe7MbeD26B3Hl87wBLDER2fH6H8 

Adventurers Wanted: http://www.adventurerswanted.co.uk/new-adventures

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cw: rape, non-consensual drugging, graphic descriptions of incest, sexual assault, victim blaming, death, body horror

Kate tells G, Lisa and Greg about the ‘darkly comic’ Judas/Jesus fanfic Son of Rosemary. Moon-lit oedipus complexes, White Jesus being the Real Jesus, bonds over scrabble and Roast Mules.

Twitter: @RePresentedPod


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Adventurers Wanted: adventurerswanted.co.uk/new-adventures

Bread and Barricades: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1316532738

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cw: NSFW, death, cults, extensive misogyny, fatphobia, discussions of racism (specifically against Native Americans, Asians, Egyptians), homophobic language, ableist language, animal cruelty, reference to pedophilia, fetishisation of lesbians, biphobia.

This week, Grace tells G, Tosin, Nemo, Steve and Lisa about the Widows of Eastwick written by "masterful" John Updike. There's a distressing lack of frogs in teacups, a distressing amount of erection-based death sentences, gay people are literally The Devil, and there are so, so many holidays. This was recorded before "OK Boomer" became a meme but trust me, this book is a big OK Boomer mood.

Phoneticised accents: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_dialect
Biological Essentialism: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_essentialism www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/…0803095507973

Trans Reading list: Honestly, I’d start with reading something free and easy to access: fanfiction. To get an idea of how trans bodies can be written into fiction in a ‘normative’ way (ie. in a way that does not reduce the ‘male’ or ‘female’ body to a penis or a vagina read something from this link: it’s filtered for trans characters, so find a fandom you enjoy and let it rip!

Books:
www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/07/03/7-ne…summer-reading/
www.harpercollins.co.uk/9780008306069…m-drag-queen/
fiveleaves.co.uk/product/unorthod…ntity-and-faith/
bookriot.com/2018/07/02/transgender-fiction/
www.barnesandnoble.com/b/books/lgbt-…N-29Z8q8Z2llo
pflag.org/resource/transgender-reading-list-adults

Twitter: @RePresentedPod
Archive: www.macdermog.com/RePresented
Bread and Barricades: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1316532738
Netflix vs Cinema: open.spotify.com/show/6beXVeSImcg…9pSiu1l0Xe9EHTKQ

Agents of the 9 Hells: www.latest.facebook.com/events/1142070242646723/

Lisa: www.facebook.com/lisaronaghan/
twitter.com/lisaronaghan
www.instagram.com/lisaronaghan.alabasteractor/

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Our first live episode and the end of season 1. Ed does his best to convince Grace, Nemo and G that Christmas in Pemberly, Ohio is a magical affair.

Adventurers Wanted Youtube Channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCojnSd8cqBKlvS-A_KGdmLg

Asian Pirate Musical: vaultfestival.com/whats-on/the-cob…qTnFM5fDt-1_Z3EM