Chapter 15: 3 Peas in a Pod (Dune by Frank Herbert with Mark Yoder)

It's the second episode of our "3 Peas n a Pod' series.  We've invited a special guest to join us to discuss a book of their choosing.  Our guest is Mark Yoder (Stephany's son and Julia's brother).  Mark chose Dune by Frank Herbert for our discussion and we a had a great time digging into the story and sharing our thoughts.  Beware - there are many spoilers in this episode!  

There are two corrections to the content of this chapter:

• Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1931 (not the 1960s or 1970s)
• Aldous Huxley used mescaline, a naturally occurring psychedelic with similar effects to LSD.   Doors of Perception was published in 1954.  Timothy Leary met Aldous Huxley in 1960.

Books mentioned in this chapter:

• Dune by Frank Herbert
• The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• The 7 1/2  Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
• Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
• No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
• Blood Meridian, or,  the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
• Journey to the center of the Earth by Jules Verne
• Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
• Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History by Dan Flores
• American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains by Dan Flores

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Also mentioned:

• Glass Onion
• Star Wars: A New Hope
• Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
• Spaceballs
• Game of Thrones 
• Beetlejuice
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
• Mad Max
• Avatar
• Tremors
• Dune (2021)
• Dune (1984)

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