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RESUBSCRIBE NOW - bit.ly/sharkliveroil in your RSS subscription section! It's the big finish - la grande crescendo - el grand culminacion: and this is A Song of Ice and Fire, so it's bloody. Join us as we sprint into Season 6 of Game of Thrones, and share our astonished delight at the continued survival of the original badassed grandpa; surely he can't be long for this world? He's doing better than most people, though. Mentioning no names. On an unrelated topic, this podcast marks our final embrace of the fact that George RR Martin is not misunderstood after all, and is in fact as much of a bastard as everyone thinks. Why, George? Why?! As ever, get us your thoughts on the books, the series, and the fate of certain people at sharkliveroilpodcast@gmail.com, or on Twitter @sharkliveroil. For the watch!

It's all about extreme in part seven of Shark Liver Oil's readthrough of A Dance With Dragons. From the smallest amongst us we find out more about Tyrion and Penny's pig riding, ship breaking and storm ravaged journey across the hot and humid climes of their ocean journey towards Slavers Bay. At the other end of the height spectrum, everyone's favourite giant Wun Wun has trouble settling into life at Castle Black. It's like fire and ice, taking over the whole wooooorld... Get your feedback into us at sharkliveroilpodcast@gmail.com or find us on twitter @sharkliveroil

WE'RE BACK ON THE DRAGONS! It's our return for a final victory lap of the world of A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin (at least until The Winds of Winter comes out). Revel! In the sight of a grown admiral acting like an angry teenager. Gasp! At the wince-enducing cruelty of negligent pirates. And chortle! At the apparent presence of early 90's hip comedy staples in the otherwise bleak wastes of Westeros. As ever, get in touch with your thoughts on the book, the characters or the podcast - @sharkliveroil on Twitter, or sharkliveroilpodcast@gmail.com.

It's the thrilling climax of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of The Baskervilles. Gasp! As Sherlock Holmes uses a knight of the realm as bait in his plot to catch a murderer. Scream! As the scary hound from the depths of hell bounds across the moors. Cheer! As Dr Watson celebrates the death of someone who "basically had it coming to him." And then there's the arrival of Lestrade and his bottle of magic brandy. To the moors!!!!! Get your feedback to us at sharkliveroilpodcast@gmail.com or find us on twitter @sharkliveroil

We're back! And it's part 2 of our coverage of The Hound of the Baskervilles, the classic Arthur Conan Doyle novel featuring everyone's favourite detective, Sherlock Holmes. We've got mysteries, we've got the potential romantic entanglements of famous East-side rappers, and we've got the disturbing discovery that Dr. Watson is a potential public menace. Shark Liver Oil: Fictional Character Assassination since 2013. As ever, get in touch with your thoughts, theories, ideas and further ways we can besmirch the good name of Dr. John Watson: sharkliveroilpodcast@gmail.com and @sharkliveroil.

Better late than never, we're back for the new year with a new book! It's the Sherlock Holmes classic, The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle. In part 1 we meet the prickly but brilliant Holmes and his long suffering assistant Watson. We also hear the terrible tale of the Hound that stalks the moors around Baskerville Manor, we hear how said owner of Baskerville Manor died while creeping around on his tippy toes and the someone loses a boot. If you've any comments to make on the book or the podcast send them to sharkliveroilpodcast@gmail.com or find us on twitter @sharkliveroil

It's time for some guerrilla warfare, some questionable health advice, and, of course, some poor life choices - it's time, in fact, for the fifth part of our coverage of A Dance With Dragons by George RR Martin! Featuring dragons, dancing, and some beings who are definitely not zombies no no definitely not. As ever, send us your thoughts at sharkliveroilpodcast@gmail.com, or on Twitter at @sharkliveroil.

Welcome to part 4 of shark liver oil's journey through A Dance With Dragons. We check in with Davos during his ill advised diplomatic mission to White Harbour, we encounter the stone men as part of Tyrion's Big Gap Year Boat Trip Adventure, Theon/ Reek visits a new contender for "Most Miserable Place in Westeros" and problems continue to pile up for both Jon and Dany. Things are getting rough - good job we're here to guide you through it. Shields Up! Swords! Lets do this! Get you feedback over to us on email sharkliveroilpodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @sharkliveroil

Welcome to part 3 of our rollocking good romp through A Dance With Dragons. In this section Danaerys considers bringing back Mereen's "Even More Extreme WWE" style fighting pits, Jon sends his best friends away in an honourable move worthy of Ned Stark and Davos moves ever closer to his Feast For Crows illustrated head on a spike situation in White Harbour. Get your feedback and comments to us on email sharkliveroilpodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @sharkliveroil

The second part of Shark Liver Oil's page by page guide to George RR Martin's Dance With Dragons says hello to a pole-boat load of new characters, welcomes back some old favourites and fetches the chopping block for one of its enemies. Get ready to meet Griff, Halfmaester Haldon, as-yet-unnamed-purple-haired-boy, Sexy Septa and of course the worst named knight in the seven kingdoms and beyond: Ser Duck. We also say "hello old friend" to Davos Seaworth. However, considering we learned in Feast For Crows that he's to have his head on a spike at White Harbour in the not so distant future, we fear he won't be around for long. What? That's not a spoiler! When is a spoiler not a spoiler? When the author's written it into a previous book, thats when!! Ahem, get your feedback into us at sharkliveroilpodcast@gmail.com or find us on twitter @sharkliveroil And download it fast - we're running out of bandwidth for this month!! (Sorry about this, we're working on a solution..)

WE'RE BACK! As dragon returns to its recently-charred livestock, so we return to A Song of Ice and Fire, and it's good to be back on the dragon wagon. This week, we've got the return - with a bump - of all the characters you missed during A Feast for Crows, which means Jon Snow! In the snow! Tyrion Lannister! In a barrel! And Danaerys Targaryen! In a surprisingly complex political and cultural quandary! Yes, ASOIAF is still the smartest gig in fantasy, and we are still running to keep up, telling fart gags all the way. This week featuring extra Desmond Tutu. As ever, get in touch with us on @sharkliveroil or via email sharkliveroilpodcast@gmail.com, and let us know what you think of the book!

ooooOOOOOOooooh - it's a scary Shark cage special this week, as we do an all-in-one take on Stephen King's classic novella The Mist. This is weather at it's most bad-assed, containing not only chills but acid spiders, unhinged old ladies and ravenous tentacles. Surely, it's nothing to do with the mysterious government project up on the hill. Surely. As always, we want to hear what you think - email us at sharkliveroilpodcast@gmail.com, or get us on Twitter @sharkliveroil. Next week it's Charles Dickens' classic de tutti classic - A Christmas Carol. See you then!

It's that time of year again! The pumpkins are carved, the trick or treaters are out in force and its time for Shark Liver Oil's Halloween Spooky Special! This year we're reading The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe - one of the classic gothic horror short stories. It's got dressing up, a spooky castle, drunken debauchery and a whole heap of dead stuff. It doesn't get much more halloweeny than that does it? If you've any comments to make on the story or the cast send them to sharkliveroilpodcast@gmail.com or find us on twitter @sharkliveroil Next week we'll be returning to Game of Thrones as we start our page by page guide to A Dance of Dragons!

Well, where to start with this one? After four glorious episodes of rampant speculation about parlourmaid sexy dances, bloody-dagger-based-cash-in-hand-motivated-murder and (of course) salacious scenes of chronic butler self abuse - our proud theories and tentative conclusions are roundly blown out of the water by a truly spectacular Agatha Christie twist. So come along with us as we discover who really killed Roger Ackroyd. We were absolutely flabbergasted. For all the wrong reasons. Plus! YOUR (and selected internet sources') feedback on the book and the cast in general - including another fantastic offer from the junk mail section. Get your own feedback into us at sharkliveroilpodcast@gmail.com or find us on twitter @sharkliveroil

In part three of Shark Liver Oil's page by page guide to Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd we begin to get a bit frustrated with Poirot's "I've found out something important... but I'm not going to tell you what it is" routine. We also discover such nineteenth century highlights as goose quills, dodgy muddy boots and playing the table top sensation that is "Mah Jong". Oh, and the doctor and detective seem to be closing in on the murderer.. Send your feedback, requests or far out murder theories into us at sharkliveroilpodcast@gmail.com or find us on twitter @sharkliveroil

Shark Liver Oil returns with the second of a four part read through of Agatha Christie's The Death Of Roger Ackroyd. In this section we discover a vital clue in the form of a mysterious gold ring, Dave questions the effectiveness of "oh I couldn't possible be guilty, I'm a woman" as a defence and Matt sticks resolutely to his knife in neck/ sexy dance/ perverted butler theory. Send your predictions, reviews and other stuff into us at sharkliveroilpodcast@gmail.com or find us on twitter @sharkliveroil

We're doing a classic Hercule Poirot mystery novel from the master of the art, Agatha Christie. This book's got it all - a man with a fortune who won't share his cash, suspicious behaviour from close family members, potentially disgusting behaviour on the part of a butler, the world's worst attempt at going incognito, and a very strange way of deciding who is trustworthy (featuring the Daily Mail). Spoilers - Ackroyd isn't long for this earth. But we're in it until the shocking revelation in a few weeks! For now, let us know who you think dunnit at sharkliveroilpodcast@gmail.com, or on Twitter via @sharkliveroil.

We are BACK! We all know it's been a long summer without Shark Liver Oil so we've got a bumper-back-to-business podcast for all you little sharklettes out there. We round off our Jurassic Park coverage in style with a scene by scene guide to Stephen Spielberg's blockbuster. We go through the film and compare it to the book and a (probably) genuine early version of the script. We've also got reviews from around the internet, some feedback from an unlikely source and the most comprehensive review of JP characters you'll find anywhere on the internet. And if that isn't enough... we dip a very tentative toe into the International Jurassic Park Erotic Fan Fiction Writers Association. Oh yes, it exists. Get your feedback over to us at sharkliveroilpodcast@gmail.com or find us on twitter @sharkliveroil

It's the final stomping, roaring, chomping edition of our coverage of Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton; this week we're reading from 'The Grid' to the end of the book, and it's a doozy. We've got scientists tinned in brine; we've got psychedelic killing machines, and we've got the world's most pathetic death-scene, involving a walk in the woods. And as a special final-episode treat, we've got some reviews from around the world, some of which are positive and some of which are...entertaining. As ever hit us up with your thoughts, opinions or rants: sharkliveroilpodcast@gmail.com or @sharkliveroil on Twitter. We're off for the summer now, so enjoy the beach and we'll see you in September!

It's part 4 of our massive, stomping, bellowing shambles of a read-through of Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park! This week is an absolute mammoth, so it's a bit late, but to make up for it we've got it all - we've got raptor boxing, we've got dinosaur ASBOs, and we've got a T-Rex that falls asleep like your grandpa after Christmas dinner. We also spend a couple of minutes fundamentally redefining arithmetic because Michael Crichton brought maths to the table and we SHARKED IT. As ever, get in touch with your thoughts or reviews of the book - next week it's the big finale. sharkliveroilpodcast@gmail.com and @sharliveroil. Roar at us, bro.