The Long Price
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Fantasy rereads with jokes sharpened into arguments.
Podcast Guys Talking ErraticErrata treats A Practical Guide to Evil like a text worth arguing with at speed. The conversations bounce from Calamity fight structure to Dread Emperor epigraphs, story patterns, villain logic, and whatever stray joke suddenly explains the chapter better than a thesis could.
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Podcast Guys Talking ErraticErrata is a reread show for A Practical Guide to Evil, aimed squarely at people who like their fantasy analysis fast, spoilery, and slightly ungovernable. It assumes the text can take a joke. It also assumes the joke might be the fastest path back to the text. Episodes move through chapters, interludes, battles, epigraphs, and side material with a rhythm closer to an argument between friends than a scripted recap. That looseness is part of the design. A discussion of the Calamities can turn into a serious point about bands being crafted as intentional rivals, then veer into retirement as a possible escape hatch from story roles. A Viv chapter can become a riff on 90s teen-movie energy, pony theft, and the surprisingly large logistics of stealing an animal. The show keeps circling back to narrative pattern. Names matter. Rivalries matter. Repetition matters, especially when the story bends, corrupts, or breaks its own familiar shapes. Characters such as Catherine, Black, Hanno, Wakasa, Hedge, Anaxeres, Kairos, Viv, Captain, the Bard, and the Princess of High Noon are treated less as lore entries than as pressure points in a machine made of story logic. The hosts can be mock-serious about Dread Emperor epigraphs and still pull a real interpretive thread out of the bit. That balance is the show’s center. It is not tidy criticism, and it does not pretend to be neutral. It loves category questions, odd phrasing, comic repetition, and emphatic claims that get revised as soon as a better angle appears. The extra-list episode format shows the same instincts outside the main reread, with The Great Gatsby prompting a jump from book-cover lore to passivity, Tom Buchanan, and the problem of reading literature only because it is assigned. The recent run also includes frank notices about temporary audio problems, so the presentation can be rough. The thinking remains lively. For readers who want polished plot summary, this may feel too sideways. For readers who want the chapter taken apart while everyone is laughing at the weirdest screw in the mechanism, it fits very neatly.
Made for: Best for A Practical Guide to Evil readers who already know the terrain and want spoiler-heavy reread analysis with comic momentum. It also suits fantasy fans who enjoy narrative structure, epigraph jokes, and arguments about how stories make villains and heroes behave.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by treating web-serial fantasy as both a serious literary object and a playground for escalating bits. Its analysis is associative and funny, but it keeps returning to specific textual mechanics: Names, rival patterns, fight structure, epigraphs, and the cost of escaping a role.
Do you love a Practical Guide to Evil? Have you felt the urge to do a reread ever since Pale Lights started up and you remembered the sweet sweet ambrosia and nectar that is EE's every word? Is overwrought analysis and faux-erudite discussion right up your alley? Then tune in for a weekly podcast series, Podcast Guys Talking Erratic Errata! PGTEE is a whirlwind reread of a Practical Guide to Evil where a historian and a literature scholar tackle the big questions about one of the greatest novels of the age! Follow us at twitter.com/thelongprice or write in...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Close reading, story-pattern analysis, and scene-specific jokes reveal how A Practical Guide to Evil builds character, conflict, and narrative roles.
Podcast Guys Talking ErraticErrata turns a close reread of A Practical Guide to Evil into an argument about how its fiction works. The hosts follow character choices, recurring story patterns, rival roles, and the political calculations behind battles.
Grand theft equine meets narrative theory, and somehow your reread notes become the restrained option.
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A fight-heavy reread that turns rivals, repeated names, and role changes into the real story.
Calamity 2 treats a run of fight scenes as more than spectacle. The hosts keep testing the action for patterns: rivalries that feel seeded, repeated names, and the idea that a villain can leave the story by changing roles instead of dying.
A rough-sounding Gatsby discussion that stays lively by circling the novel's nastiest people.
The episode opens in rough shape, with the sound taking a hit after a software failure and a string of improvised fixes. That said, it settles into a spirited run of discussion around The Great Gatsby, where the hosts praise the novel, return again and again to Tom Buchanan as…
A scrappy reread that stays funny even while the audio keeps getting in the way.
Podcast Guys Talking ErraticErrata makes the messy audio part of the deal, and then turns that looseness into a very funny read on Practical Guide to Evil.
A ragged reread that turns one spear and one melting breastplate into sharp character logic.
The episode stays closest to the battlefield details. A spear becomes a club-and-stab weapon, and Catherine only realizes part of her breastplate has melted once the fight is already underway.
A sharp reread of two dangerous women making politeness feel like siege warfare.
The episode treats the chapter as a prison visit turned into a contest of manners, power, and political embarrassment, and the hosts lean into how much menace can hide inside a polite tea service.
Grim fantasy at mud level.
Hospital nights, vampire debts, impossible choices.
Podcast Guys Talking Eratogorata works through Calamity 2 as a chapter made out of three fights.
The episode opens with an apology.
The episode opens with an apology for really bad sound and a promise that the current setup is the best case scenario they can manage.
Two hosts analyze the fantasy novel 'A Practical Guide to Evil,' focusing on the mysterious character Dread Empress Prudence and her epigraphs.
A historian and a literature scholar reread and analyze chapters from the web serial 'A Practical Guide to Evil', discussing characters, themes, and plot developments.
A historian and literature scholar reread and analyze a chapter of the web serial 'A Practical Guide to Evil', discussing plot developments and character fates.
A historian and literature scholar begin a reread podcast of the web novel 'A Practical Guide to Evil', discussing its themes and characters.
A historian and literature scholar discuss a chapter from the web serial 'A Practical Guide to Evil', focusing on a battle with the Princess of High Noon.
A historian and literature scholar discuss and analyze the web serial 'A Practical Guide to Evil' in a weekly reread podcast.
The episode opens with a blunt warning that the audio is rough because a software failure pushed the show through a messy recovery process.
The show opens with a spoiler warning, then moves into an extra chapter about Alaya’s return to Wolof after decades away.
A historian and literature scholar reread and analyze the fantasy novel 'A Practical Guide to Evil', focusing on epigraphs and key battles.
A historian and a literature scholar reread and analyze a chapter of the web serial 'A Practical Guide to Evil', discussing plot, characters, and themes.
A historian and literature scholar discuss a chapter of the web serial 'A Practical Guide to Evil', analyzing characters and plot.
A historian and a literature scholar reread and analyze the fantasy novel 'A Practical Guide to Evil', discussing plot points like Catherine's treason.
This episode analyzes Chapter 17 of 'A Practical Guide to Evil', focusing on Catherine's arc, her prison visit, and themes of treason and character development.
This episode is a satirical news-style analysis of a fantasy novel, blending fictional world events with literary commentary.
This episode analyzes themes from the novel 'A Practical Guide to Evil', focusing on goblin culture and violence, while humorously following the character Robert's actions in California.
This episode analyzes a chapter from the novel 'A Pregnant Guide to Evilware', focusing on Catherine's dire situation and her discussion with the king, including themes of power and a surreal dream sequence.
A historian and literature scholar reread and analyze the fantasy novel 'A Practical Guide to Evil' with humor and scholarly insight.
A historian and literature scholar reread and analyze a chapter from the fantasy novel 'A Practical Guide to Evil', focusing on themes of entrance and presentation.
A historian and a literature scholar discuss Chapter 9 of 'A Practical Guide to Evil' in a detailed reread podcast.
A historian and literature scholar discuss a chapter from the fantasy novel 'A Practical Guide to Evil', focusing on the character Cordelia.
A historian and literature scholar discuss Chapter 8 of A Practical Guide to Evil, focusing on Catherine's lies to fairies and the epigraph from Dread Empress Sinistra II.
A historian and literature scholar reread and analyze a chapter from the fantasy novel 'A Practical Guide to Evil', discussing post-battle scenes and character appearances.
A historian and literature scholar reread and analyze a chapter of the web serial 'A Practical Guide to Evil', discussing themes of power, magic, and morality.
A historian and literature scholar discuss a chapter from A Practical Guide to Evil, focusing on Catherine's fight with the Fae in Arcadia.
This episode is a humorous and dramatic analysis of a chapter from J.R.R.
A literary analysis podcast rereading and discussing the fantasy novel 'A Practical Guide to Evil' with a historian and literature scholar.
A podcast episode celebrating the 10th anniversary of A Practical Guide to Evil with a reread and literary analysis.