Snark Squad Pod #076 – The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

Previously: We watched Men In Black: International and it was perfectly fine!

Marines: There are two reasons why this 11 year old book ended up on our list of media to cover: 1- I love it a lot and 2- there is an upcoming adaptation staring Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley. While that adaptation is still a little ways off, we are covering this now because it won a Patreon poll. Recently, we talked about coming of age stories. We ran a poll with a bunch of our favorites (from this book to 90210) (for real) and The Knife of Never Letting go won.

We invited my good friend Caitlin Vanasse to join us this episode. I knew Caitlin didn’t like the book when she first read it, but she’s such a good sport, she read it again for the podcast. Caitlin is the cohost of the podcast That’s Not How Science Works and can be found on Twitter here.

This is a divisive book and we had a nice spread of opinions. And by that I mean, play below to hear me have way too many feelings as I defend this book lol.

 

 

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For those of you watching and reading along, here is our planned upcoming media in the order they’ll be released: Spider-Man: Far From Home, The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman, The Americans, and Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw.

Nicole Sweeney

Nicole is the co-captain of Snark Squad and these days she spends most of her time editing podcasts. She spends too much time on Twitter and very occasionally vlogs and blogs. In her day job she's a producer, editor, director, and sometimes host of educational YouTube channels. She loves travel, maps, panda gifs, and semicolons. Writing biographies stresses her out; she crowd sourced this one years ago and has been using a version of it ever since. She would like to thank Twitter for their help.