In this episode, Marlon and Jake talk about the bad characters we’re not meant to like but do and the good characters we’re meant to like but annoy us. From Dracula to Daisy Buchanan to Oliver Twist and Bambi, the good-to-evil spectrum is vast and no character is safe from commentary. Tune in to find out which classic villain the duo unanimously hate, and which villain gives Marlon the chills and scares Jake to this day.
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- The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
- A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
- The Flashman series by George MacDonald Fraser
- Tom Brown’s School Days by Thomas Hughes
- King Solomon’s Mines by Sir H. Rider Haggard
- Raiders of the Lost Arc by Campbell Black
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Good Morning Midnight by Jean Rhys
- Bambi by Felix Salten
- Watership Down by Richard Adams
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Railway Children by E. Nesbit
- Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
- The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Emma by Jane Austen
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
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