“Miss Peregrine’s Home” and “How to Write Best-Selling Fiction”

Our intrepid hosts discuss two books. One is a popular novel, and one is about how to write popular novels for fun and profit.

We strap on some bib overalls, give each other bowl haircuts, and call Dad by his first name like we ain’t really related, on our way to dissecting the worldview message being preached in this Academy Award winning snooze-fest starring Gregory Peck. There’s also a small appearance by a very young Robert Duvall. For those keeping score, our last episode also featured a young Duvall. So we’re on a small roll with Duvall, which must end here for the sake of sanity.

It takes a lot of grit to dissect a John Wayne classic, but we’re just the band of varmints to do it. Not quite as dangerous as traveling into the Indian Territories in search of a killer, granted, but tricky nonetheless. We avoided a Glenn Campbell spanking on the one hand, and a deadly snake pit on the other to bring you a worldview critique that’s tougher ‘n boot leather.

It’s like we’ve lost our minds or something. Like we can’t remember anything long enough to learn from past mistakes. Does even a juvenile, low-brow Rom-Com qualify as worldview preaching? Yes, it does. Every story preaches a worldview, as surely as it has a plot or a theme. We bite down on our mouth-pieces, snap on the chin-straps, and charge ahead with a below-average Adam Sandler movie. And that’s saying something. (On a personal note, though, this was the most fun we have had yet on this podcast. Weird.)