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Seeing Read with Jim & KellyDune Part 2Get ready to ride the worm! Jim and Kelly take their Bene Gesserit sass to the sands of Arrakis in this action-packed, spice-infused episode. From face tattoos and sandworms to Christopher Walken’s emperor swagger, they dive headfirst into the cinematic and literary epic that is Dune Part 2. Expect debates about prophecy, Paul’s messiah complex, and why Stilgar might be the Ned Stark of the Fremen (spoiler alert: way fewer direwolves). Plus, Kelly questions the butthole-dick sandworm design while Jim nerds out over worm-riding glory. It's a journey through sci-fi grandeur, poignant politics, and questionable parental decisions (spice orgy...2024-12-261h 25Seeing Read with Jim & KellyHellraiser/ The Hellbound Heart⏱ Jump to the Book vs. Movie Review at 46:06We have such sights to show you! Fresh off the torture rack- and burning up with sex appeal that only a hairless demon scorpion monster can bring- it's time to dig your pins into a VHS classic.Kelly joins Julia at the bar to pick up her latest kills, I mean reads. Finally a horror novella that cuts to the point- though maybe the name doesn't quite pull it off. Don't be fooled by the appearance-something dark & familiar lurks beneath. Clive Barker channels boredom into just the ri...2024-11-071h 31Seeing Read with Jim & KellyDune Part 1It's time to Spice up your life!Arrakis might look like a dead planet on the surface but it's swimming in sweet sweet stimulants. You don't need to have visions of the future to know we're talking about Dune. It's a space opera that blends a trippy college bender with the fun of LARP'ing. Thankfully in neither book or movie you won't smell a sietch.Kelly struggled with her stillsuit but Frank Herbert lent her the mentat advice she needed to hear... it just needed to be said in a Bene Gesserit voice. The OG...2024-10-031h 43Seeing Read with Jim & KellyMurder on the Orient Express⏱ Jump to the Book vs. Movie Review at 50:00A Swede, a Brit and a Belgian board a train. In case you're worried that this is going to turn into an off-color joke about stereotypes... you'd be half right! So tuck your knives before customs confiscates them and join us on the soul train for a special birthday Patreon episode: Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express.Kelly hops on board the wrong MTA line time and time again, praying she gets the simple title right. Thankfully Hercule Poirot is a more organized man th...2024-08-291h 52Seeing Read with Jim & KellyJurassic ParkHey kids do you like dinosaurs? Science? Being gored by an extinct animal? Unchecked capitalism? The imminent destruction of our fragile ecosystem? Ugh boring, right? But what if I told you a man gets eaten by a TRex... on a toilet? Yeehaw cue the theme song, pack your lunch boxes with Dino DNA and hop in the helicopter, we're heading to Jurassic Park!Kelly wasn't confident the book would be worth the price of admission but boy was she thankful Crichton was a bigger man than Spielberg. The maths all add up and the chaos in the...2024-08-121h 44Seeing Read with Jim & KellyCall Me By Your Name'Tis the season to go fruit picking in Italy! If you don't have a translator handy, no worries, we found the subtitles on Amazon prime... but you'll still need to know the etymology for the word apricot. It's Call Me By Your Name.Jim and Kelly celebrate Pride by finding a new letter on the LGBT spectrum to join them. Guest Peter Turo joins a very queer episode that celebrates fluidity and solipsism. Yet this throuple still have their disagreements.Author Andre Aciman proves that a rose by any other name would still be so...2024-06-272h 43Seeing Read with Jim & KellyWatchmenWho watches the Watchmen? Us. Duh. Nixon is clutching the nuclear launch codes and we took the month to anatomically put ourselves back together for this special patreon birthday episode. How could this go wrong?Kelly cracks open her first comic book to find a fun way to play philosopher. Is this really about masked avengers or is it just Kierkegaard in tights? We don't think, therefore we aren't sure. Challenging as a new medium can be, an expression of intellect is still not something to throw into a radioactive particle test chamber and disregard. Th...2024-06-061h 45Seeing Read with Jim & KellyThe Handmaid's TaleLadies, are modern day options crippling? Do you spend way too much time deciding between which primary color to wear and enjoy the thrill of voting against your basic needs? Well do we have a future for you!Kelly puts all her eggs in Margaret Atwood's basket. This Canadian author wrote a long form poem that chills, maybe not thrills, but certainly instills a fear for our future autonomy. We humans need love, touch, communication, and most importantly...to read. Apparently "my body my choice" translates into Latin as "Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum." Civil war! C...2024-04-252h 02Seeing Read with Jim & KellyThe Cuckoo's CallingIt's a bird! No, it's a plane! No, it's just a supermodel swan diving off the balcony. Some might call it foul play so it's up to a British sleuth(s)and these American readers to get to the bottom of it. But first, let's hit the pub and pick up a special guest to help us solve the murder of the teleplay for the Cormoran Strike Series.Kelly has found a friend to help defend JKRowling's pseudonym and detective series. She'd use their pronouns but that might not jive with the author. Regardless, the book holds...2024-03-281h 40Seeing Read with Jim & KellyFifty Shades of GreyIs that love in the air? Gross, put my ball gag back in for some autoerotic asphyxiation. Welcome to Fifty Shades of Grey, a book and movie as vibrant as its slate color scheme. XXX content? More like Zzz's. EL James might not know what BDSM is or how a 21 year old woman talks, but that didn't stop her from riff'ing off Twilight. Kelly could defend her...but in the words of the author "Holy Cow, it's so hard." Thesaurus' were spanked within an inch of their limit and e-mails tied up the plot with handcuffs.2024-02-291h 39Seeing Read with Jim & KellyAtonementThirteen year old girls can really put the "me" in migraines. Been there, done that. But since it's January and the play is cancelled let's solve a mystery and accidentally doom a few lives while we're at it. It was the Gardener in the Library with the Vase! The Chocolate War Profiteer in the garden! No, it's not Clue, it's the saddest love story that never was. Ian McEwan rewrote a young girl's history at the cost of her geriatric neurological health. Spoiler alert: sad. Maybe some friendly plagiarism can smooth over all prepubescent faux pas? This...2024-01-251h 36Seeing Read with Jim & KellyThe Color PurpleDear God,What did postage stamps cost back in the 80s? 11 Oscar nominations? Danny Glover's dignity? One thing's for sure, after the film adaption, Alice Walker's novel The Color Purple demanded to be "returned to sender." Kelly is sending love letters to Alice Walker's 1982 Pulitzer Prize winning book. It might be a little more gritty, but it's a heavenly trip to finding your self worth. Even Jimmy admits that you can pick up the beautiful sentiments- to not to is a sin.The film introduced the world to Whoopi Goldberg but left out...2024-01-041h 30Seeing Read with Jim & KellyKillers of the Flower MoonIt's that time of year to gather with your family and gobble gobble up a nonfiction book to educate yourself on those who were robbed of theirs. This isn't Hallmark's version of the first Thanksgiving, but we're certainly gonna be serving some facts along with that cholesterol. Can a Scorsese adaption bring heart to a broken hearth or does it take a true crime book to make you grateful for the FBI? It's time for Killers of the Flower Moon.Kelly is doomed to repeat history as yet another white girl gets angry over ignorance. Are people...2023-11-301h 28Seeing Read with Jim & KellyThe ShiningYo ho ho and a bottle of REDRUM, let's kick off Halloween at the Overlook Hotel! Our favorite bartender Lloyd will be slinging imaginary martinis and the blood in the elevator will be flowing. *Dog costume not included, so if you're a ghost Furry... come prepared. In a Samhain swap up, Jimmy shines first. Since we've all seen this classic horror flick, he's must defend the iconic Kubrick film. Steeped in conspiracy theories and strategic imagery the film lives on in the public consciousness but does it leave you feeling cold? Colder than it left Stephen King...2023-10-261h 41Seeing Read with Jim & KellyThe Talented Mr. RipleyThe kids are in school and the weather is turning cool, so how's about we jetset to Italy for a few cocktails and some stolen identity's? Don't worry, we'll be putting it on the Greenleaf tab. Some food for thought: Is Tom Ripley just you classic American who spent too much time studying abroad or is he a dyed in the wool sociopath? Honestly... what's the difference? Book or movie... he comes off as a real Dickie. Which depending on your preference, and his, might leave a bad taste in your mouth. Join Kelly and Jim as th...2023-10-051h 32Seeing Read with Jim & KellyNo Country for Old MenEven hopelessness is bigger in Texas!Welcome to the Wild West of adaptions. The sheriff just quit, the author met the wrong side of a cattle stunner and the Coen brothers can be found at Trader Joe’s. Or so Jimmy and Kelly wish.Kelly may be wearing a wishful tin hat surrounding the conspiracy theories surrounding Taylor Swifts sexuality… but she is decidedly not a Nihilist. Can she defend good writing and profound content despite her aversion to Southern Gothic? Or did Cormac mean to write the book title as No Country for Pagan Femm...2023-08-311h 27Seeing Read with Jim & KellyReady Player OneBlow the dust off your Atari and out from between your ears because we’re about to simulate and stimulate! Who needs real friends when you have Jimmy and Kelly to break down Ready Player One for you? Kelly’s fighter, despite the gamer boy cringe, is Ernest Cline. Jimmy powers up Steven Spielberg. Sure, Ernest Cline may be the 80s Peter Pan, but the man knows how to joust… and sell an unpublished manuscript. But is that enough to stop Spielberg from taking home the Highest Score with his nostalgia whirlwind of a film? Jim and Kell ate up the...2023-07-271h 35Seeing Read with Jim & KellyFingersmith/The HandmaidenWe’re ringing in Pride month with the bells from the Handmaiden! Fingers crossed you read this sapphic pastiche before listening, as it’s as twisty and unpredictable as the sex scenes in the film adaption. If this is your first time taking a dip into Sarah Waters, welcome to your first Victorian-era lesbian Dickensian experience! Stuffed with handsome women reading very niche book genres (Maude’s Goodreads must be lit) and a friendly reminder that human rights and dental hygiene are very modern concepts. Or maybe you’d like to trade in the cockney accent and corsets for a very e...2023-06-291h 51Seeing Read with Jim & KellyThe Hunger GamesMay the month of May be ever in your favor! Odds are, if you’re a kid in a Seeing Read book/movie… you won’t make it out alive. That’s just fine in Panem where Jim and Kelly have found some high ground to stand on, weapons of choice in hand. Can the Hunger Games book take on its blockbuster movie twin in hand to hand combat? Can both book and movie win the games if they’re from the same District? Not for all the money in the Capitol.Jim and Kelly discover that Suzanne Co...2023-05-251h 27Seeing Read with Jim & KellyKnock at the Cabin/Cabin at the End of the WorldIs that your Sixth Sense tingling in anticipation or did you see the Signs coming a mile away? Special guest Evan Crean (Spoiler Piece Theatre https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spoilerpiece-theatre/id900473184) joins Kelly and Jim in the breakdown and take away of M Night Shyamalan’s latest attempt at maintaining his legacy. Can he rise above his need to force feed his audience news clips or is that just what comes from buying his Air Fryer (as advertised!) It doesn’t take a mathematician to know the end of the world is neigh, but...2023-04-271h 34Seeing Read with Jim & KellyAngela's AshesThere’s no better time to fake being Irish than Saint Patrick’s Day! So, grab some green beer and your 23AndMe results and get ready for an Angela’s Ashes discussion. Whether you’re a Galway Girl, Up the Kingdom of Kerry, or get pissed when some eejit refers to the city of Limerick as Stab City, you still have to agree that the Pulitzer award-winning memoir by Frank McCourt earned its accolades. Did the 1999 film by Alan Parker get the tone right…or did the laughter die along with half the family?Kelly and Jimmy...2023-03-301h 32Seeing Read with Jim & KellyThe NotebookIf you’re a bird, I’m a bird! Unless you were a book first. Not that any of us will remember by the end of this. Jim and Kelly are ready to prove that there’s nothing sexier than a story about the tragedy of aging. Grab a marble notebook, a colored pen and some Viagra cause it’s time to tackle the Notebook. Nicholas Sparks found a way to our hearts and a healthy paycheck by way of the romance genre. His sexiness remains refuted by Kelly. In 2004 we saw the meteoric ri...2023-02-231h 31Seeing Read with Jim & KellyGone GirlHappy Anniversary! Every marriage is hard work… can books and movies compromise or are they doomed to be like the Dunnes? Gillian Flynn served the world a twist to scare the boys for centuries to come while David Fincher delivered a thriller drenched in NPH’s blood. Yes, it’s Gone Girl. Jim and Kelly play a gendered treasure hunt for redeeming qualities in this best seller/blockbuster. It was a win for most people… but who did it better? Kelly takes a page out of Amy’s diary and: A) pretends she liked it and says som...2023-01-261h 32Seeing Read with Jim & KellyGood OmensAfter the holidays the Armageddon sounds heavenly right about now but why not indulge in some sinfully delightful chit chat? In this end of the year episode Jim and Kelly tackle academically biblical issues like can angels be gay if they are sexless metaphysical beings, is Pollution sexy and is there such a thing as being too British?Kelly disassociates for 30 minutes (astral travels) while trying to condense Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s witty though unhinged tale of the Armageddon into a linear format. Jim couldn’t find the end of the novel and wished the four...2022-12-291h 38Seeing Read with Jim & KellyWhere the Crawdads SingWhere the Crawdads Sing can be stuffed up where the sun don’t shine, for all Jim and Kelly care. Delia Owen’s Marsh Girl was a hit with the book world and Reese Witherspoon brought it to the big screen, too bad both bored your hosts to tears. Kelly defends the book despite wanting to drown it in a swamp and Jim takes the side of movie because it would have saved himself some time from having to have read this. It’s a CGI birds and bad poetry showdown! Ladies, prepare to have your hopes and dreams spoile...2022-11-301h 25Seeing Read with Jim & KellyPet SemataryJim and Kelly made some funeral arrangements at the Pet Sematary and there’s a plot or two that needs to be filled. Are you team book? Do you miss the sweet cannibalistic touch of the Wendigo that keeps getting left out of these movies? Proving that “sometimes Read is Bettah?” Or did the movie enGAGE you with it’s extra touch of pus? Just like Church, the movie came back, more evil than before… but was the twist a success? Join us in the King’s country as we debate the pros and cons to resuscitating our beloved novel.2022-10-271h 30Seeing Read with Jim & KellyF*ght ClubJoin Jim and Kelly on the reading rainbow of pain. F*ght club might not be said explicitly but it’s the subject matter at hand- or fist. Sure it’s an iconic film, but is it an equally twisted book? If you want to keep your balls, choose the right identity. Is it book? Movie? David Fincher or Chuck Palahniuk? Do one of them even exist? Did Kelly even pronounce his name correctly? So sit back, crack open an IKEA catalog and disassociate while your hosts debate if the book or movie was better. Soap up and apply that...2022-09-291h 11Seeing Read with Jim & KellyThe BeachYour hosts Jim and Kelly tackle the not-so-classic novel and 2000s sexy film The Beach. Was the book or movie better? Who will eat the worm? Why are there so many intestines? What did Gen X do right? Join us for your monthly dose of cinematic spoilers and unqualified literary opinions. After all, Leonardo DiCaprio and Tilda Swinton’s passionate sex scene is guaranteed to scar you, so let us help you unpack it! Don’t forgot to vote on on our social media accounts following the episode. Was it #teambook or #teammovie? Choose wisely- a book may b...2022-08-2555 minSeeing Read with Jim & KellyTrailer: Seeing Read with Jim & KellyWelcome to SeeingRead! Where your hosts, Jim & Kelly, tackle the age old millennial question: was the book really better than the movie?! Enjoy being wrong!2022-08-1500 min