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Book Club From Hell#126 Welcome to the Desert of the Real - Slavoj Žižek w/ Stephen G AdubatoWelcome to the Desert of the Real (2002) is Slavoj Žižek talking about 9/11 from a Lacanian, Hegelian, Ljubljana-slobber-in-a-stained-Lenin-T-shirt perspective. For this episode, the wonderful Stephen G Adubato of Cracks in Postmodernity helped me navigate Žižek's discursive 'It feels like I'm reading five books at once' style.Cracks in Postmodernity: https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel called Tower!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetThe first nine chapters of Tower are available for free here...2025-08-101h 10Book Club From Hell#126 Welcome to the Desert of the Real - Slavoj Žižek w- Stephen G AdubatoWelcome to the Desert of the Real (2002) is Slavoj Žižek talking about 9/11 from a Lacanian, Hegelian, Ljubljana-slobber-in-a-stained-Lenin-T-shirt perspective. For this episode, the wonderful Stephen G Adubato of Cracks in Postmodernity helped me navigate Žižek's discursive 'It feels like I'm reading five books at once' style.Cracks in Postmodernity: https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel called Tower!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetThe first nine chapters of Tower are available for free here...2025-08-101h 10Book Club From HellPale Townie/American Cats Are in a Big Country w/ Tom WillTom Will is a poet who has, among other things, written Pale Townie (Apocalypse Confidential, 2023), a 999-line poem which keeps the heroic couplet end rhymes from Pale Fire (Nabokov/Shade) intact, while transforming the story into something quite different, very Tom Will. He's also recently published American Cats Are in a Big Country (2024, Farthest Heaven), a collection of 73 poems, all of which are very much worth your time and love.We got to talk about the process of writing Pale Townie, why limericks are so funny, prose poems, clunk, Tom's future projects, and a lot more.2025-08-031h 22Book Club From Hell#125 The System's Neatest Trick - Theodore KaczynskiWritten in prison in 2002, The System's Neatest Trick is an essay from Kaczynski's Technological Slavery. In it, Kaczynski describes how 'the System' - more or less a technological society - redirects the popular frustration caused by its intrusions into human life, and its subversion of the power process. Where does it redirect this frustration? Into 'activist' causes, both as a pressure-release valve on popular discontent, and as a way to expedite the social changes required for an expansion of technological slavery.Read The System's Neatest Trick here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ted-kaczynski-the-system-s-neatest-trickVERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION2025-07-271h 42Book Club From HellBook Club from Heaven - Spare Us Yet w/ Lucas SmithSpare Us Yet is a short-story collection from Lucas Smith, the Editor-in-chief of Bonfire Books. Each story is a new examination of Christian faith, human fallibility and our ways of finding meaning, and are all well worth your time.Bonfire Books: www.bonfirebooks.orgWiseblood Books: www.wisebloodbooks.com/Lucas' Substack: https://lucassmith.substack.com/Bonfire Books' Substack: https://bonfirebooks.substack.com/Lucas' RecommendationsCaleb Caudell: https://middleamericanliterature.substack.com/Jamie Grant: https://publishing.hardiegrant.com/en-au/authors/jamie-grantJoshua Wren: www.joshuahren.com/#/Stephen Edgar: www.stephenedgar.c...2025-07-201h 12Book Club From Hell#124 Sex and Character - Otto Weininger w/ Nina PowerOtto Weininger, at the age of 23, published Sex and Character, an idealist justification for not trusting the cosmic Woman, as well as an extended rumination on genius, sexual compatibility, Judaism, memory, ethics, and logic, all upon the background of his sexual fears. Shortly after the book's tepid critical reception, including accusations of plagiarism, Weininger rented a room in the building where Beethoven died. Here, he shot himself in the chest, gaining himself a number of posthumous admirers, including August Strindberg and Ludwig Wittgenstein.Joining me for this episode is the woman of many talents (but no...2025-07-131h 45Book Club From HellThe Everlasting w/ Lewis WoolstonThe Everlasting is an excellent short story collection by Australia's favourite son, Lewis Woolston. Many of these stories are inspired by his upbringing among Jehovah's Witnesses in Western Australia, addiction, working bad jobs to stave off poverty, and, despite everything, having the fortitude to find a place of stability. This is Lewis' second time on the show - if you want to hear more from him, we did a previous episode where we talked about another of his short story collections, Remembering the Dead.Find Lewis' books here (including The Everlasting): https://bequempublishing.com/authors/authors-w-z/lewis-woolston/2025-07-061h 08Book Club From Hell#123 Wake in Fright - Kenneth Cook w/Sini and Fresta from Getting LitWake in Fright (1961) is an Australian novel about a pushover Sydney city boy's experiences in Broken Hill-inspired Bundanyabba. Here, he loses all of his money gambling, is constantly drunk, knife fights kangaroos, tries to shoot himself, and much more. To help me gush over this sinister and very funny book, I enlisted the help of Matthew Sini and Matthew Fresta of the lovely Getting Lit podcast. For the second part of this conversation, where we talk about the 1971 film adaptation of Wake in Fright, check out the Getting Lit podcast.Getting Lit on X: @getting_lit...2025-06-291h 55Book Club From Hell#122 Irene Iddesleigh - Amanda McKittrick RosFinanced by her husband as a 10th wedding anniversary present and published in 1897, Irene Iddesleigh is a romance story featuring extremely mercurial characters, bizarre pacing, and the most insane purple prose in existence. Really, The Eye of Argon reads like a physics textbook in comparison.VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel called Tower!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetThe first nine chapters of Tower are available for free here: jackbc.substack.comOur Patreon...2025-06-222h 03Book Club From Hell#121 The Transmaxxing Manifesto - VintologiTransmaxxing is when natal males make themselves into women in order to live a materially better life. The Transmaxxing Manifesto lays out why men would (that is, should) want to become women, why an essential gender identity doesn't exist, how to 'girl-mode', why men are useless, and how to bring about a global authoritarian transmaxxing state in which 5% of the population are breeding males, 50% are natal females, and the 45% of men insufficiently masculine to breed are forced to take oestradiol and live as women.Link to the manifesto: https://www.scribd.com/document/720824358/Transmaxxing142025-06-092h 08Book Club From HellOn High at Red Tide w/ Gabriel HartOn High at Red Tide is a rough, scruffy, lovely, unsettling, surf-noir novel written by Gabriel Hart, a novelist, poet, musician, and reporter (among many things). We got to talk about petrifying trazedone hallucinations, the parallels between alcoholism and possession, meth, why it's always wrong to kill someone, LA subcultures, and a whole lot more. Get On High at Red Tide: https://pigroastpublishing.com/product/on-high-at-red-tide/Get On High at Red Tide on Amazon, if that's your thing: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCYZR5L9/Jail Weddings: https://jailweddings.bandcamp.com/album/ego-jingles...2025-06-021h 20Book Club From Hell#120 The Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund FreudPublished in 1899, The Interpretation of Dreams is one of Sigmund Freud's most significant works and, by extension, one of the most significant works in psychoanalysis, psychology, and the Western conception of the mind. In it, Freud begins with a collection of questions: what are dreams? What can we learn from them? In trying to answer, he ends up describing a structure of energetic flows between the conscious, preconscious and unconscious portions of the psyche.Turns out, there's more to Freud than penises, cocaine and wanting to have sex with your mum.VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION2025-05-252h 26Book Club From HellAfter Sunstone w/ Dustin ColeDustin Cole is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and short story writer, whose latest chapbook After Sunstone is a lovely examination of seeing, times and places. I actually ended up buying this book on the basis of its cover: it's a great edition, put out by Farthest Heaven. We talked about the link between poetry and time, poetry as a way to say the unsaid, why Dustin no longer writes novels, SE Hinton's novel Rumble Fish, Robin Blaser's essay The Fire, dissatisfaction, and much more. Buy After Sunstone herehttps://farthestheaven.com/products/after-sunstone...2025-05-201h 31Book Club From Hell#119 Drone Disorientations: How 'Unmanned' Weapons Queer the Experience of Killing in War - Cara DaggettThis article, published in 2015 in the International Feminist Journal of Politics, offers a description of how the experience of piloting hunter-killer UAVs could 'queer' the battlefield and offer possible lines of flight out of heteronormative hierarchies. Poststructuralism meets mainlining hours of war footage on the internet (not really) (yes really).VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel called Tower!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetThe first nine chapters of Tower are available for free here: jackbc.substack.com2025-05-111h 54Book Club From HellThe Sleepers w/ Matthew GasdaMatthew Gasda is a director, novelist, playwright, essayist and Memphis horrorcore rapper, who has a novel, The Sleepers, coming out on the 6th of May, 2025. Tightly stage-managed and reading like a thickened play, The Sleepers explores millennial listlessness. This episode doubles as a New York soundscape, Matthew calling in from a cafe and crunching lemonade ice cubes tenderly into his microphone (your ear).Buy The Sleepers here: https://www.amazon.com/Sleepers-Novel-Matthew-Gasda/dp/1648211259Matthew's Substack: https://matthewgasda.substack.com/VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel called Tower!Amazon...2025-05-0447 minBook Club From Hell#118 The Eroticising of HIV: Viral Fantasies - Jaime García-IglesiasJaime García-Iglesias explores the phenomenon of bugchasing from a sociological perspective. And what is bugchasing? According to García-Iglesias, it is the eroticisation of HIV, expressed in many ways: getting pozzed by a detectable giftgiver during bareback sauna sex, masturbating to #poz and #BBBH ('bareback brotherhood') accounts on X, tracing your viral genealogy to Michel Foucault... the possibilities are endless.Link to the article: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-11352-9VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel called Tower!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0...2025-04-272h 23
Book Club From HellAgonist w/Udith DematagodaUdith Dematagoda is an academic, novelist, musician, editor at Hyperidean Press, and the reincarnated form of Ned Ludd, who, among other things, published a great novel called Agonist last year. An actually experimental experimental novel, Agonist is a rendering of posts and videos from around the internet into a strangely coherent whole. It's much funnier and more human than a depiction of the internet-void has any right to be.We also talked about infantilism, internet guys, e-girls, fatherhood, and the later work of Louis Althusser.Hyperidean Press (from where you can buy A...2025-04-201h 52Book Club From Hell#117 The Futurist Cook Book - Filippo Tomasso Marinetti and Luigi Colombo FillìaPublished in 1932, the Futurist Cook Book is part comedy, part manifesto, and all cook book (kind of). Concerned as much with the extra-gustatory as the gustatory aspects of dining, this cook book offers a Futurist, anti-passeist approach to meals, one that embraces the Futurist principles of speed, violence and contempt for women. Most importantly, it identifies and denounces the primary threat to Italian nationalism: pasta.VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel called Tower!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetThe...2025-04-131h 42
Book Club From HellBook Club from Heaven - Echolalia Review w/ Jasper CeylonWe've broken our usual upload schedule for a very special Book Club from Heaven episode. Why? Because Echolalia Review, by Jasper Ceylon, is so painfully funny. Jasper has performed an elaborate poetic hoax: over roughly two years, he wrote a series of poems, 47 of which were published in 30 different poetry journals. The thing is, these poems were written to be as ridiculous as possible, then submitted under a series of assumed identities, also completely ridiculous. Echolalia Review is a collection of these poems, as well as explanatory notes describing the state of contemporary poetry. I cannot recommend Echolalia...2025-04-062h 51Book Club From HellBook Club from Heaven - God Is a Killer w/ Max ThraxMax Thrax, managing editor of Apocalypse Confidential and 3rd-century Roman emperor, has written a book called God Is a Killer. An extremely fast-paced noir crime novel, it's great fun to read. Among other things, we talked genre fiction, the differences between noir and hardboiled, JG Ballard, independent publishing, and more.Buy God Is a Killer (it's very, very good): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CM8WKBW7Check out Apocalypse Confidential: https://apocalypse-confidential.com/Max on Twitter: @ThraxMaximilianApocalypse Confidential on Twitter: @APCON_MAG VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJ...2025-03-301h 25Book Club From Hell#116 Solenoid - Mircea Cărtărescu w/ Alexandru ConstantinSolenoid is a novel by Romanian novelist, essayist and poet Mircea Cărtărescu. A bizarre work of alternate-timeline autobiography, Solenoid is the diary of M.C., and details his attempts to escape from his life through dream magic, hypercube contemplation, scabies-mite transfiguration, solenoid levitation, tuberculosis recuperation, and much, much more. It's a truly dizzying, high-dimensional novel.Here to help me (Jack) talk about Solenoid is professional Romanian Alexandru Constantin of the Black Ibis Social Club on Substack.Alex's Various Projects:Deceneus Journal/Black Ibis Social Club: https://deceneus.substack.com/In...2025-03-232h 10Book Club From HellBook Club from Heaven - The Raft w/ Phil RotThe Raft is an extremely funny micronovel by Phil Rot, Philip Roth's ghost-operated online nom de plume. You (yes, you, the one reading right now) should buy and read it.Buy The Raft on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DQ5PV8BXPhil's Book RecommendationsThe Amazonian Uteroboscus - BL OvermanBehead all Satans - NMN-DRThe Call of Horror series - Frank GardnerKeller Memento: 25 Years of David H Keller - David H KellerImprovidence - David Herod2025-03-161h 45Book Club From Hell#115 Trump: Modern Shaman: Understanding His Mastery of Influence and Enchantment - Leo VanEd returns for an episode! Leo Van is an engineer-turned-shaman who knows some of Ed and my (Jack's) friends. In this book, published shortly before the 2024 American Presidential election, Van analyses Trump from the perspective of Amazonian shamanism, describing him as an unwitting 'brujo rojo', a practitioner of both black and white magic.I was initially reticent to cover a book that felt too topical, but the shamanic angle sucked me in.Buy Trump: Modern Shaman: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJZ5GTK5VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a...2025-03-091h 18Book Club From HellBook Club from Heaven - Remembering the Dead w/ Lewis WoolstonLewis Woolston is a cryptid (Australian) living in Facebookistan (South Australia) who has written two lovely collections of short stories, Remembering the Dead and Other Stories and The Last Free Man and Other Stories. This episode, we talked about Remembering the Dead, regret, ageing, loss, family, NA, and more. Read his books, they're great.Buy Remembering the Dead from Truth Serum Press, if you're a true Aussie patriot: https://truthserumpress.net/catalogue/fiction/remembering-the-dead/Buy Remembering the Dead on Amazon, if you're not a true Aussie patriot: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1922427586minimag...2025-03-021h 21
Book Club From Hell#114 Democracy: The God That Failed - Hans-Hermann Hoppe w/ Gabe SinclairHans-Herman Hoppe is a German-born economist of the Austrian School, an anarcho-capitalist, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Nevada and, as the title of this book would suggest, not a democracy enjoyer.Considered a seminal work by, among others, NRx luminaries such as Mencious Moldbug and Nick Land, Democracy: The God That Failed offers a praxeological justification for why all states are bad, but democracies are worse than monarchies.For this episode, we were lucky to be joined by Gabe Sinclair of the Tooky's Mag Side Bar podcast, a grotesquely well-read Spenglermale and...2025-02-233h 56Book Club From HellBook Club from Heaven - Incurable Graphomania w/ Anna KrivolapovaIncurable Graphomania is a collection of bleakly funny short stories by Anna Krivalopova (not Anna Khachyan). We got to talk about Russia, being talked to by telecommunication towers, cat food, grindcore, and much more, before she had to make a sudden and mysterious exit--intriguing, elusive, maintaining frame.You should buy Incurable Graphomania: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CCW2HGMXAnna on Twitter: @AnaKrivolapovaApocalypse Confidential: https://apocalypse-confidential.com/VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel called Tower!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0...2025-02-162h 26
Book Club From Hell#113 Fiat Food - Matthew LysiakWithout sound money, governments can expand the supply of cuckbucks (fiat currency) willy-nilly. In Fiat Food (2023), Lysiak details how monetary expansion has led to the American 'fiat food' diet of vegetable-based, food-adjacent slop. And how do we escape from the clutches of fiat food? With Bitcoin and red meat.Shout out to orangepill luminary Saifedean Ammous' publishing house The Saif House for publishing this book.We're brilliant minds, so we managed to mispronounce 'Saifedean' for the entire episode. Buy Fiat Food (and a lot of other Bitcoin books): https://thesaifhouse.com/VERY I...2025-02-095h 05
The Best One Yet🥞 “Maple Syrup Mayhem” — Trade War’s wild 24 hours. Robinhood’s Super Bowl bet. Levi’s Baggy Secret.The first 24 hours of Trade War II were wild… We’re breaking down the surprise tariff deals with Mexico and Canada.Robinhood is the top stock since Election Day... and now you can bet on the Super Bowl.How did Levi identify the baggy daddy jeans trend before anyone?... A secret deal with Google.$LEVI $GOOG $SPY $HOODMonopoly 🎩 Check out the latest episode of our new weekly deepdive show: The untold origin story of… Monopoly. A capitalist game invented by a communist. Subscribe to The Best...2025-02-0420 minBook Club From HellBook Club from Heaven - Slacker Genesis/Mixtape Hyperborea w/ Adem Luz RienspectsAdem is an author and audio documentarian (I guess?) whose work is characterised by, above all, a bracing honesty. Mixtape Hyperborea (2023) is a novel about high school, and Slacker Genesis is an audio collage (for lack of a better term) about relationships, faith, hypocrisy, friendship, failure and forgiveness. Both works are well worth checking out.Mixtape Hyperborea: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BW32CX2G?Slacker Genesis: https://www.patreon.com/StaticBlueVERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel called Tower!Amazon: https://www.amazon...2025-02-021h 54
Book Club From Hell#112 The Power of the Pussy: Get What You Want From Men: Love, Respect, Commitment and More! - Kara KingMen won't commit and women don't need to accept this. Why? They have the power of the pussy. Relationship books for women are a whole lot less gross than the ones for men, but also much less funny.VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel called Tower!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetThe first nine chapters of Tower are available for free here: jackbc.substack.comOur Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHell2025-01-262h 34
Book Club From HellBook Club from Heaven - Dragon Day/The Black Album w/ Matt PegasMatt Pegas is an author, podcaster and soon-to-be publisher. We talked about his books Dragon Day and The Black Album, about order from chaos, about being and becoming, about Alexander Dugin, about Ernst Junger, about the occult, about the importance of ritual, and much more.Matt's Books:Dragon Day: https://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Day-Matthew-Pegas-ebook/dp/B0967PF1JFThe Black Album: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Album-Matthew-Pegas-ebook/dp/B0CY8PNKG7Matt's Podcasts:Strange Flows (https://mattp969.substack.com/s/strange-flows-podcast)New Write (w/ Dan Baltic)2025-01-191h 59
Book Club From Hell#111 Erowid.orgErowid.org is the Internet's most comprehensive and fun encyclopaedia of recreational drugs. If you aren't ordering research chemicals from a shady online Russian pharmacy and using them to commune with tree demons at a bush doof, then you aren't really living.VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel called Tower!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetThe first nine chapters of Tower are available for free here: jackbc.substack.comOur Patreon: www.patreon.com...2025-01-121h 49Book Club From Hell2024 ReviewWe look back on 2024. NB: during the Patreon shoutouts, I can't remember if I gave a shoutout to Robert/Fake Gamer Boy. Shout out to Robert! Also shout out to Trent, our grouchiest OG.We're going to be taking a break for a few weeks, new episodes again from mid-January 2025.VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel called Tower!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetThe first nine chapters of Tower are available for free here: jackbc...2024-12-223h 02
Book Club From Hell#110 The Concept of the Political - Carl Schmitt w/ Dr Jon WittrockCarl Schmitt was a German legal philosopher who is probably most famous for joining the Nazi Party in 1933. He's also extremely influential in legal and political philosophy, and only growing more so, on both the illiberal left and right. He remains one of the most interesting critics of liberalism, and we were lucky enough to have Dr Jon Wittrock of the University of Malmö join us for this episode, leading us through the foundations of Schmitt's thought.Turns out, there's a lot more to Schmitt than chuds spamming 'friend-enemy distinction' on X.Jon's page at t...2024-12-151h 48
Book Club From HellBook Club from Heaven - House of Sleep w/ Brad KellyMany of you probably know Brad Kelly as one half of the Art of Darkness podcast. Here, we talk about his 'psy-fi' novel 'House of Sleep', as well as tarot, the spookiness of literary communication, psychedelics, outsider art, and much more. I had a great time talking to Brad, and hope he comes on again soon.Brad's RecommendationsGod’s Dog - Andrew EdwardsIncurable Graphomania - Anna KrivolapovaThe Black Album - Matt PegasThe White Goddess- Robert GravesBrad's Website: https://www.bradkellyesque.com/...2024-12-082h 02
Book Club From Hell#109 The Sigma Male Bible - Bud WatsonIn the socio-sexual hierarchy of men (sorry, males), the sigma is a lone wolf, capable of being a dominant alpha, but choosing a life of mystery, solitude and 'tasteful rebellion'. The Sigma Male Bible (2021) teaches readers how to become this rarest of males.VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel called Tower!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetThe first nine chapters of Tower are available for free here: jackbc.substack.comOur Patreon: www.patreon...2024-12-011h 40
Book Club From HellBook Club from Heaven - Quarterlives w/ Cairo SmithCairo Smith is an author and filmmaker. We got to talk about his latest short story collection Quarterlives, the literary new wave, didacticism in fiction, and much more. Quarterlives: https://www.amazon.com/Quarterlives-Cairo-Smith-ebook/dp/B0DJPZDH91?ref_=ast_author_dpFuturist Letters: https://www.futuristletters.com/X: @cairoasmithCairo's Website: https://cairosmith.com/Cairo's RecommendationsArbogast: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B09C7WR25F?ingress=0&visitId=d9c3d12b-6586-44fb-b1a0-2fcf0b4f0e9a&ref_=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3, https://substack.com/@arbogast12024-11-201h 42
Book Club From Hell#108 Pro-Ana w/ Katherine DeeFor this episode, we were joined by the reigning Empress of Internet Anthropology, Katherine Dee!Pro-ana, or pro-anorexia, is a largely-online subculture based on the experience of anorexia nervosa. At times promoting this illness, at times offering a refuge for those struggling with eating disorders, the broader eating disorder subcultures offer us a way to explore our relationship with food, control, body image and more.Katherine DeeX: @default_friendSubstack: https://default.blog/VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel called Tower!Amazon...2024-11-171h 30
Book Club From HellBook Club from Heaven w/ Postliberal Book ReviewsPostliberal Book Reviews writes, surprisingly, book reviews from a Catholic, post-Vatican II, postliberal perspective. Being less flippant, he writes very thoughtful reviews of both fictional and non-fictional works, and everyone here should check out his Substack page.Travis' RecommendationsThe Neighbour - Caleb CaudellNutcrankr - Dan BalticIncel - ARX-HanLost Causes - Richard NicholsVERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel called Tower!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet...2024-11-103h 02
Book Club From Hell#107 Moon People - Dale CourtneyMoon people, published in 2008, is, in many ways, the sci-fi equivalent of The Eye of Argon. Bizarre plotting, even more bizarre characters, and, most importantly, it's oddly charming. Buy Moon Peoplehttps://www.amazon.com/Moon-People-Dale-M-Courtney/dp/1436372135VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel called Tower!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetThe first nine chapters of Tower are available for free here: jackbc.substack.comOur Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHell2024-11-031h 42
Book Club From HellBook Club from Heaven - Improvidence w/ David HerodDavid Herod's Improvidence is an 'overnight novel', a brisk novella combining adventure, a dash of weird fiction, and some truly beautiful descriptions of a post-collapse West Virginian and Ohioan landscape. We talked about Improvidence, didactic fiction, fictional relationships and more.Improvidence: https://www.amazon.com/Improvidence-David-Herod/dp/B0CWCF7J13Tooky's Mag: https://substack.com/@tookysTooky's Sidebar Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@tookysmagDavid's RecommendationsMixtape Hyperborea - Adem Luz Rienspects - https://www.amazon.com/Mixtape-Hyperborea-Adem-Luz-Rienspects/dp/B0BW32CX2GIncel - ARX Han - https://www...2024-10-281h 34
Book Club From Hell#106 Programmed to Kill - David McGowan w/ David from Tooky's MagDavid McGowan's Programmed to Kill (2004) is a seminal work of conspiratorial thinking, well-regarded among members of the online commentariat on parapolitics, as well among conspiracy theory aficionados generally. Paedophile rings, satanic cults, the Phoenix Program, mind control, psychiatric induction of alternate personalities for the purposes of mind-control assassination, the creation by the FBI of the concept of 'serial killer' to terrorise the American public; there's a lot going on here. For this episode, we were joined by David from Tooky's Mag and the Tooky's Side Bar Book Club podcast. He was a wonderful guest, and I encourage e...2024-10-202h 16
Book Club From HellBook Club from Heaven - Hardly Working w/ Caleb CaudellCaleb Caudell is an American author who has recently released 'Hardly Working'. Described as 'semi-auto fiction', Hardly Working uses Caudell's experiences working in the service industry, dating, writing, and living in terrible apartments to explore our deracinated moment.Caleb is an outrageously erudite man, and I had a lot of fun hearing him talk about medieval theology, Dostoyevsky, short stories, the concept of the secular, and much more.Caleb's Books:Hardly Working: https://www.amazon.com/Hardly-Working-Semi-Auto-Caleb-Caudell/dp/0645776874Novelty: https://www.amazon.com/Novelty-other-stories-Caleb-Caudell/dp/0645776815The Neighbour...2024-10-131h 31
Book Club From Hell#105 Lolita - Vladimir NabokovVladimir Nabokov finished writing Lolita in 1953. It took him, an established author, until 1955 to have it published. Why? It's a book about a middle-aged man who has a sexual relationship with a twelve-year-old girl. Publishers were uncomfortable, etc. The thing is, it's also a phenomenally well-written book. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetWebsite: thebookclubfromhell.comPatreon: patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHellJack's website: www...2024-10-061h 49
Book Club From HellBook Club from Heaven - Basilisk w/ Abbie Lucas and Kevin KautzmanAmong other things, Abbie Lucas is a filmmaker, and Kevin Kautzman is a playwright and podcaster (shout out to The Art of Darkness podcast). They've co-written a play, Basilisk, about spooky internet AI horror story Roko's Basilisk. We talked to them about their play, about AI, about crypto, about film versus theatre, and more.Basilisk radio play (produced by Dark Pony Radio): https://open.spotify.com/episode/29EGS0THzSnq2fPE1GVBmI?si=iviG232_T4ed0RcYTZGEbQKevin Kautzmanhttps://kevinkautzman.com/https://badmouthtc.com/https://artofdarkpod.com/Abbie Lucas2024-09-291h 46
Book Club From Hell#104 The Accursed Share (vol. 1) - Georges BatailleThe Accursed Share (vol. 1 published in 1941) lays out Bataille's concept of general economy. What do Aztec human sacrifice, potlach, Islamic conquest, Calvinism and the rise of capitalism, the Marshall Plan and avoiding World War III all have in common? Bataille has the answers.VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetOur Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHellJack's website: www.jackbc.meJack's...2024-09-222h 03
Book Club From HellBook Club from Heaven - Nutcrankr w/ Dan BalticI (Jack) talk to Dan Baltic about his book, Nutcrankr. To quote the blurb of Nutcrankr, "NUTCRANKR is a comic examination of fringe ideology, social atomisation, and sexual dysfunction in modern America. Dan Baltic's debut novel is a sardonic look at a certain type of Extremely Online character we're all too familiar with and what happens when their delusions and flights of fancy come into contact with the real world." Yes, I changed the blurb's spelling from American ('atomized': hideous, uncouth) to British ('atomised': elevated, spiritually fulfilling). No, I won't change it back. VERY IMPORTANT...2024-09-161h 59
Book Club From Hell#103 The Forest Passage - Ernst JüngerErnst Jünger, a man who fought in two World Wars, was an entomologist, award-winning author, philosopher, traveller, psychonaut and much more, wrote The Forest Passage (1951), a book which explores how one can retain freedom in a time of mass ideology and titanic technological change. It's a really, really good book.VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetApple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671Our Patreon: www.p...2024-09-082h 52
Book Club From Hell#102 Simulacra and Simulation - Jean Baudrillard w/ Justin MurphyJustin Murphy joins us to talk about 'Simulacra and Simulation' (1981), a book by French philosopher and cultural critic Jean Baudrillard. What happens when a society schematises too much, copies copies of copies and loses touch with 'reality'? Hyperreality. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONOther Life (probably the best place to see what Justin Murphy is working on): www.otherlife.coJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetApple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id64667336712024-08-252h 06
Book Club From Hell#101 The 440 Enigma - LC VincentThe A above middle C is often tuned to 440Hz. Why? Because of a multi-decade conspiracy to degrade the spiritual connection of the human race, involving Joseph Goebbels, John Deagan, the Frankfurt School, sacred numerology, and a very wealthy American dynasty.VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetApple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHellJack's website...2024-08-112h 13
Book Club From HellBook Club from Heaven - Incel w/ ARX-HanJack talks to ARX-Han, author of Incel (2023), about the process of writing Incel, as well as the thought behind it. Rather than sum up Incel myself, I'll quote ARX-Han:"Savage, hilarious, and everything in between , INCEL is a pitch-dark comedy about one man's harrowing quest to ascend.Suicidally depressed, twenty-two year old anon has settled on a if he can't find a way to lose his virginity by the date of his next birthday, he’s going to pick a fight with the biggest, baddest man he can find, and get himself killed....2024-08-042h 21
Book Club From HellEPISODE 100We reflect on 100 episodes of the Book Club from Hell (or on the 99 prior to this one, if you want to be pedantic). Big shout out to moog for the intro music, and to Alex from Masticate (https://masticate.bandcamp.com) for the outro music. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetApple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHell2024-07-282h 46
Book Club From Hell#99 Point Omega - Don DeLillo w/ Art of Darkness PodcastWe were joined by Kevin Kautzman and Brad Kelly from the Art of Darkness podcast for this episode! We talked about Point Omega, by Don DeLillo, a short, mysterious novel published in 2010. If you haven't listened to Art of Darkness, we highly, highly recommend you do.VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONhttps://artofdarkpod.com/If you ever cared about us, you'll send Art of Darkness your money: https://www.patreon.com/artofdarkpodJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M...2024-07-142h 21
Book Club From Hell#98 The Population Bomb - Paul R Ehrlich and Anne H EhrlichPaul R Ehrlich is the Bing Professor Emeritus of Population Studies at Stanford University. In 1968 he published The Population Bomb, co-authored with his wife Anne Ehrlich. In it were predicted, among other catastrophes, famines in the 1970s which would kill hundreds of millions. The cause? Human overpopulation. The optimal solution? A trans-national governing body which would regulate the fertility rates of humans the world over.In 2009, when asked about The Population Bomb's success in predicting the future, Ehrlich replied that its only problem was in being too optimistic. I should note that the predicted global famines never took...2024-06-302h 35
Book Club From Hell#97 Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors - Rex FeralPaladin Press (rest in peace) liked to court controversy. So when a mother of two approached them with a manuscript for a crime novel, they asked her to write something spicier. The result? Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors, a step-by-step guide on how to work as a contract killer. The power of marketing was so strong that this book was implicated in a triple murder, leading to Paladin Press being sued. Flying too close to the sun, et cetera. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www...2024-06-161h 53
Book Club From Hell#96 The Managerial Revolution - James BurnhamJames Burnham, a Trotskyite-turned-conservative, wrote The Managerial Revolution in 1941. In it, he describes the processes by which capitalist societies become managerial, and by which capitalists are displaced by managers as those who control the means of production.VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetApple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHellJack's website: www.jackbc.me2024-06-021h 17
Book Club From Hell#95 Interview with James De Llis: There's a Man Crying in the Street and Other Stories'There's a Man Crying in the Street and Other Stories' is a short story collection by James De Llis, of the Hermitix podcast and author of 'Exiting Modernity', 'Only Ever Freedom' and 'Be Not Afraid'. In this episode, I (Jack) had a chat to James about the process of writing, the thematic and aesthetic inspirations for this collection, and more. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONWhere to buy There's a Man Crying in the Streethttps://www.amazon.com/Theres-Crying-Street-Other-Stories/dp/B0CY7SN98QJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www...2024-05-191h 19
Book Club From Hell#94 Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy - Costin AlamariuCostin Alamariu, who may or may not be Bronze Age Pervert, completed his doctoral thesis in political philosophy at Yale in 2015. This thesis was re-published in 2023 under the title 'Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy'. There's a lot to this book, but it's mostly about the relationship between philosophy, heritability, aristocracy and nature. If you've ever wondered about the eugenic origins of philosophy, then listen on. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetApple B...2024-05-123h 56
Book Club From Hell#86 Living Inside My Own Butt For Eight Years, Starting A Business And Turning A Profit Through Common Sense Reinvestment And Strategic Targeted Marketing - Chuck TingleChuck Tingle is a pseudonymous author of (mostly) gay erotic literature and, occasionally, non erotic literature. In a rare occurrence, Levi and Jack are in the same room for this episode. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetApple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHellJack's website: www.jackbc.meLevi's website: www.levioutloud.comwww.thebookclubfromhell.comJoin our...2024-03-101h 06
Book Club From Hell#81 Triumph of the Will - Leni RiefenstahlTriumph of the Will is a Nazi propaganda film, documenting the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, and released in 1935. Directed, edited, produced and co-written by Leni Riefenstahl, the film remains highly influential due to Riefenstahl's innovative approach to film-making. It also stars Adolf Hitler as himself. Most importantly, this episode stars Edward as a co-host, standing in for Levi. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetApple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id64667336712024-02-041h 03
Book Club From Hell#70 Tower - Jack BC, esteemed co-host of The Book Club from HellJack has published a novel called 'Tower.' As such, this is a very special episode, wherein Jack hawks his book and talks to Levi about it. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetApple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671Jack's website: www.jackbc.meLevi's website: www.levioutloud.comOur Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHellwww.thebookclubfromhell.comJoin our Discord (the best...2023-11-051h 17
Book Club From Hell#68 The Decline of the West, Vol. 1 (part 2) - Oswald SpenglerThis week, we cover chapters four, five and six of Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West, Volume I. Spengler has mindbroken Jack into understanding him; Levi remains intact. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetApple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671Jack's website: www.jackbc.meLevi's website: www.levioutloud.comOur Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHellwww.thebookclubfromhell.comJoin our Discord...2023-10-222h 34
Book Club From Hell#59 Jack - David HopkinsJack is an ongoing furry webcomic, first published in March 2001, by David Hopkins. Using an ensemble cast of furry angels, demons, souls trapped in purgatory and those living on Earth, it explores the author's Christian faith, his problems with women, theological dilemmas and his disgust at the state of the world. If that's not enough, it's also extremely violent, and manages to fit in almost every brand of NSFW you could desire (or not).VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONMasticate Bandcamp: https://masticate.bandcamp.com/Masticate Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7IGCjYU2yCFoY339yLQiwL?si...2023-08-201h 04
Book Club From Hell#38 Level - Hibbeler ProductionsThe Earth is flat, and the documentary 'Level' proves it. Published by Hibbeler Productions in 2021 and narrated by flat-Earth superstar Eric Dubay, Level is a non-stop assault of facts and logic, supplied by household names such as ODD TV, Dave Murphy, Tanner Stewart, Johnny Giampapa, Eddie Bravo and my personal favourite, Santos Bonacci. Levi sat this episode out, so Jack is joined by the famed astrotheosophist Edward. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetApple Books...2023-03-191h 32
Book Club From Hell#36 The Fourth Political Theory (Part II) - Alexander DuginThis episode is a continuation of Alexander Dugin's 'The Fourth Political Theory'. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetApple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671Jack's website: www.jackbc.meLevi's website: www.levioutloud.comwww.thebookclubfromhell.comOur Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHellJoin our Discord (the best place to interact with us): discord.gg/ZMtDJ9HscrWatch us on YouTube...2023-03-052h 32
Book Club From Hell#35 Contentment - JackIn addition to reading other people's work, sometimes I produce my own. In this episode, I (Jack) read out a short story I wrote a while ago.VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetApple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671Jack's website: www.jackbc.meLevi's website: www.levioutloud.comwww.thebookclubfromhell.comOur Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHellJoin our Discord (the best...2023-02-2614 min
Book Club From Hell#34 American Psycho - Bret Easton EllisAmerican Psycho: chances are, you've seen the film and know plenty of Patrick Bateman quotes. But have you read the book? Published in 1991 and written by Bret Easton Ellis, this novel is an extremely funny satire of modern consumerism, as well as being stomach-churningly disgusting in many places. Levi sat this episode out, and Ed stepped in to fill his shoes. As Ed has watched the American Psycho film at least 30 times, he was definitely in his element. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0...2023-02-192h 13
Book Club From Hell#33 The Fourth Political Theory (Part I) - Alexander DuginAlexander Dugin is a Russian political philosopher who may or may not have President Vladimir Putin's ear. A longtime advocate for invading Ukraine, Dugin's book 'The Fourth Political Theory' (2009) offers a Heideggerian framework for developing an alternative political theory to liberalism, one in which American global hegemony will be undermined, Dasein will become the historical subject, multilateralism will allow Russia an expanded sphere of influence and we will avoid the inevitable fate of liberals - becoming cyborgs (this is not a metaphor).VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon...2023-02-122h 10
Book Club From Hell#32 Bioleninism - SpandrellWhy is everything so terrible? I'll give you a second. If you didn't answer 'the biologically-inferior acolytes of the distributed bioleninist vanguard party have wormed their way into most positions of power in society and are now remaking society into a grey morass where they have more social prestige than they'd have otherwise,' then you're not merely wrong, but probably a bioleninist yourself. This episode, Jack and Levi explore the world of biological Leninism, a theory elucidated by the pseudonymous blogger Spandrell in three blog posts and one interview. Bioleninism posits that the lowest-status members of...2023-02-052h 35
Book Club From Hell#31 Wolf Warrior 2 - Wu JingAmerican propaganda cinema is great, don't get me wrong. But don't you ever want some variety? That's where Wolf Warrior 2 comes in, a proudly nationalistic, pro-Chinese Communist Party action flick! Come for the dialectical materialism, stay for the Han Chinese racial supremacy!VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetApple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671Jack's website: www.jackbc.meLevi's website: www.levioutloud.comwww.thebookclubfromhell.com2023-01-291h 59
Book Club From Hell#30 Messages to the World - Osama bin LadenSpicy hot take: 9/11 wasn't an inside job. Rather, it was a terrorist attack planned by Osama bin Laden, a Saudi Islamic extremist.For someone talked about so much, few people in the West have heard Osama bin Laden's own words. Instead of listening to the man himself, we had 'counter-terrorism experts' regurgitate talking points into our open mouths and called it a day. Fortunately, Bruce Lawrence edited the book 'Messages to the World - The Statements of Osama bin Laden' (2005), a compilation of 24 of Osama's public statements. It's a convenient way to get acquainted with Osama's thought, which...2023-01-223h 24
Book Club From Hell#29 Call of the Crocodile - F GardnerShout out to our boy Xi Jinping, Book Club from Hell's favourite listener!As requested by Dear Leader Jinping, we have read F Gardner's 'Call of the Crocodile', a horror novel which explores the weighty societal themes of crocodile attacks on children. F Gardner, who also goes by @famousauthor on YouTube, has written Call of the Crocodile as part of the 'Call of Horror' series, a collection of loosely-related horror novels. If this episode gets enough interest, maybe we'll do an episode on 'Call of F Gardner', but I kinda hope that doesn't happen.We're...2023-01-153h 18
Book Club From Hell#28 ChatGPT StorytimeOpenAI has created ChatGPT, a language model which is designed for dialogue. It responds to text-based queries in plain English, and is a step forward in the field of AI. So what's the best use of such a stunning intellectual achievement? Making it tell us stories about the weirdo authors we've covered on this podcast, of course!VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetApple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671Jack's website...2023-01-082h 06
Book Club From Hell#27 Regaining Wholeness Through the Subtle Dimensions - Don Paris, PhDDon Paris, PhD, is a quantum shaman and the husband of Ilona Selke, whose seminal work, 'Wisdom of the Dolphins: Entering the Secret of the Holographic Universe', was covered in a previous episode. He sells the SE-5, and has written an instructional manual and sales pitch for the device, named 'Finding Wholeness Through the Subtle Dimensions'.SE-5? Well, the SE-5 is a subtle energy detector and tuner, available for the low, low price of $5,600! What can it do, I hear you ask? It turns probabilities into possibilities, assigns values to scalars and potentises intrinsic data fields. More...2022-12-253h 10
Book Club From Hell#26 The Book of RevelationThe Bible has a book for every occasion. What about when you're 600 micrograms deep in an acid trip and you forget your own name? That's the right mood for Revelation, the final book of The Bible. Yelp reviews of the seven churches of Asia and a detailed account of how the world will end; Jack and Levi unpack Revelation with their unrivaled exegetical skills, putting to rest the question of who Revelation's author was, once and for all. Hint: he still lives in Narre Warren. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!2022-12-113h 02
Book Club From Hell#25 Ride the Tiger - Julius EvolaBusy? Stressed? Got too much on your plate to undergo that ontological transformation you keep telling yourself you'll get around to? Never fear! Julius Evola's final major work, 'Ride the Tiger', bills itself as a 'survival manual for the aristocrats of the soul'. That is to say, it's an immensely practical work, one which describes how a differentiated man can integrate and orient himself to above, even in these dark times of the Kali Yuga.VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9...2022-11-274h 20
Book Club From Hell#24 EcclesiastesEver wanted to hear an Australian man mumble to himself about Ecclesiastes for over an hour? Ever wanted to go to Bible/Torah class? Now you get both of those things, in one neat package! VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetApple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671Jack's website: www.jackbc.meLevi's website: www.levioutloud.comwww.thebookclubfromhell.comOur Patreon: www.patreon.com...2022-11-131h 20
Book Club From Hell#23 My Immortal - XXXbloodyrists666XXX*nuzzles u sexyly* LAMAOOOO!My Immortal, published serially on fanfiction.net between 2006 and 2007, is a gothic re-imagining of the Harry Potter universe. The presumably pseudonymous author, XXXbloodyrists666XXX, ignored constraints such as keeping the story canon-friendly, plot continuity, spelling and 'why is Snape a paedophile now?' to deliver an unhinged haunted-house ride of fanfiction. Satire? A time-capsule from the mid-2000s? A Mossad/RGB psyop? Who knows?*boops u sexy on th nose RAWR!* MCR rox!!!!!!111!VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon...2022-10-302h 50
Book Club From Hell#22 My Twisted World - Elliot RogerIn 2014, Elliot Roger, self-described as 'magnificent' and 'the supreme gentleman', did the most gentlemanly thing possible: a mass shooting. He left behind a manifesto, 'My Twisted World', explaining why he did what he did. In short? Virginity. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetApple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671Jack's website: www.jackbc.meLevi's website: www.levioutloud.comwww.thebookclubfromhell.comOur Patreon: www...2022-10-172h 14
Book Club From Hell#21 The Beginning Was the End - Oskar Kiss Maerth1967: Oskar Kiss Maerth writes 'The Beginning Was the End' in his MGTOW man cave, a Buddhist monastery in Guangdong Province, China. 1971: this book is published and the human race learns the truth about where it came from. Turns out, our ape ancestors ate the brains of other apes to get really horny, and really smart. The downsides? We're no longer psychic, we're disconnected from the spiritual world, we've lost our fur coats, and we're all going to die from overpopulation. You win some and you lose some. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a...2022-10-023h 41
Book Club From Hell#20 The Eye of Argon - Jim TheisAt the tender age of sixteen, Missourian Jim Theis wrote the heroic fantasy novella, 'The Eye of Argon'. Published in a local fanzine, it attracted attention for being bizarrely written and starring the irrepressible barbarian Grignr. It's also really good.VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetApple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671Jack's website: www.jackbc.meLevi's website: www.levioutloud.comwww.thebookclubfromhell.com2022-09-181h 09
Book Club From Hell#19 Gothic Violence - Mike MaMike Ma kept accelerating and delivered a new novel. We crash into it and tell you what the wreckage looks like. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetApple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671Jack's website: www.jackbc.meLevi's website: www.levioutloud.comwww.thebookclubfromhell.comOur Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHellJoin our Discord (the best place to interact with us): discord...2022-09-041h 45
Book Club From Hell#18 Prometheus Rising - Robert Anton WilsonRobert Anton Wilson wrote Prometheus Rising in 1983, a hopeful account of how humanity will soon unlock the secrets of faith healing, remote viewing, a space-faring civilisation and immortality. Eight-circuit, marijuana-friend woo-woo to break you out of your reality tunnel, man. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetApple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671Jack's website: www.jackbc.meLevi's website: www.levioutloud.comwww.thebookclubfromhell.com...2022-08-212h 57
Book Club From Hell#17 Bone Smashing - Indigenous SwissBone smashing: the global craze, whereby a young man hits himself in the face with a hammer to chisel looksmax perfection from a sub 5/10 visage. Don't know what any of that means? Well Juri Rüfli, AKA Indigenous Swiss, wrote a brief ebook named 'Natural Law', which we read for this episode. Come for the life coaching, stay for the skull fractures! Nietzsche philosophised with a hammer. So does Indigenous Swiss.VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_s...2022-08-072h 06
Book Club From Hell#16 Sacred Games - Fight NightHave you ever sat around with your mates and wondered which public figure would do best in a fight? We have, and we made a podcast about it. We match up all the people we've read for this podcast, and discuss who would prevail in no-holds-barred, single combat.Plot twist: Ilona Selke is the most powerful being in the multiverse.VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetApple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book...2022-07-2520 min
Book Club From Hell#15 Sacred Games - Date NightLove blossoms in every age! We match up the thinkers whom we've read for this podcast. Who has chemistry? Who gets murdered? Jack and Levi have the answers. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetApple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671Jack's website: www.jackbc.meLevi's website: www.levioutloud.comwww.thebookclubfromhell.comOur Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHellJoin our Discord (the...2022-07-1134 min
Book Club From Hell#14 Sacred Games - What Would Jesus Do?"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." - Jason Genova (2022)To be a modern Australian is to be bombarded with arguments from all sides. The newspapers exist to shout at you from their front pages, your 'friends' always want you to take a position on something, social media demands that you be brave and stand up for whatever's currently popular. Our solution? Look to the greatest thinkers to put all these disagreements to rest! We've read some interesting perspectives for this podcast. Varg Vikernes, Terence...2022-06-2849 min
Book Club From Hell#13 Harassment Architecture - Mike MaFamed for its coherence and plot, Mike Ma's novel 'Harassment Architecture' condenses the irony-soaked, online provocations of your favourite chan into around 150 pages. It reads like the thoughts of a prolific shitposter, and probably is. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetApple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671Jack's website: www.jackbc.meLevi's website: www.levioutloud.comwww.thebookclubfromhell.comOur Patreon: www.patreon.com...2022-06-141h 45
Book Club From Hell#12 Practical Female Psychology for the Practical Man - Joseph South, David Clare and FrancoHave you ever talked to a woman? Chances are, you have at some point. Have you ever understood a woman? If you haven’t read Practical Female Psychology for the Practical Man, then you definitely haven’t.World-renowned seducers Joseph South, David Clare and the mononymic Franco have pooled their knowledge, gained over years of bedding the fairer sex, and condensed it into a handy, practical, field guide for women. Don’t know what the Madonna/whore complex is? Still stuck in a pussy trance? Getting beta-ised at every turn? Tied in knots by double binds? Jack and Le...2022-05-302h 38
Book Club From Hell#11 A SPECIAL TREAT - Jack Talks to Himself About EvolaJulius Evola’s ‘Revolt Against the Modern World’ is a book in two parts. Book I is where Evola lays out his metaphysics. Book II is where he applies them to human history, explaining why things are so awful now, and why they’ll only get worse. In episode #8, we discussed book I. In this episode, we tackle book II, except without Levi’s audio. You see, we lost Levi’s audio tracks. Rather than admit defeat, we’ve stitched together Jack’s parts and edited them for clarity. Here’s a unique opportunity for you to listen to an Austr...2022-05-171h 11
Book Club From Hell#10 Wisdom of the Dolphins: Discovering the Mystery of the Holographic Universe - Ilona SelkeHave you ever wanted to talk to a dolphin? I mean, not talk talk, but telepathically communicate? Well, now you don’t have to, because Ilona Selke has been there, done that, and wrote a book to prove it: 'Wisdom of the Dolphins: Discovering the Mystery of the Holographic Universe’. Turns out, talking to dolphins gives you all sorts of powers, including but not limited to time travel, inter-dimensional hopping, image transformation, possession and paying taxes. Come for the cetaceans, stay for the quantum holographic universe. Dive in! VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has publ...2022-05-032h 01
Book Club From Hell#9 The SCUM Manifesto - Valerie SolanasHaving shot Andy Warhol and art critic Mario Amaya, Valerie Solanas tried to shoot Warhol’s manager in the head, but then her pistol jammed. The year before, she published the SCUM Manifesto, a venomous attack on all men and their ‘daddy’s girl’ enablers. It’s a notorious piece of misandry. Fortunately, hosting this podcast are the most qualified people in the world to talk about the most radical of radical feminism: two men in their late twenties.This episode, Jack and Levi journey into the no-boys-allowed zone to work out why men are responsible for all ills i...2022-04-192h 10
Book Club From Hell#8 Revolt Against the Modern World - Julius EvolaFrom military dictatorships and rigid caste systems to telepathy, sexual magic, and Atlantis, "Revolt Against the Modern World" by self-described "super fascist" Julius Evola has it all.VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetApple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671Jack's website: www.jackbc.meLevi's website: www.levioutloud.comwww.thebookclubfromhell.comOur Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHellJoin our Discord (the best...2022-04-023h 44
Book Club From Hell#7 Doctrine of Fascism by Benito MussoliniBenito Mussolini, il Duce, was The Father of Fascism. Formerly an Italian socialist, Mussolini founded Italian fascism as a reaction to the failures he perceived in communism and socialism. Under his authoritarian leadership, Italy was one of the two primary Axis powers in Europe during World War II, alongside Nazi Germany under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. He was the Duce of Fascism (1919) and the Duce of the Italian Social Republic (1943) until his untimely death in 1945 at the hands of Italian resistance fighters. His corpse was hung from a gas station and stoned in Piazzale Loreto, Milan....2022-03-021h 22
Book Club From Hell#6 Food of the Gods - Terence McKenna - Part 2Part 2 of Food of the Gods by Terrence McKenna.Terence McKenna was one of the most influential psychedelic advocates of the modern era. We read his seminal work, Food of the Gods, in which he proposes a radical explanation for the origins of our species: Stoned Ape Theory.VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetApple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671Jack's website: www.jackbc.meLevi's website...2022-02-222h 01
Book Club From Hell#5 Food of the Gods - Terence McKenna - Part 1Terence McKenna was one of the most influential psychedelic advocates of the modern era. We read his seminal work, Food of the Gods, in which he proposes a radical explanation for the origins of our species: Stoned Ape Theory. Influenced by his transcendental experiences with shamans in Central and South America, McKenna suggests the process of evolution from primates to early hominids and the radical cultural evolution of Homo sapiens was catalysed by our symbiotic relationship with psychedelic plants, particularly psilocybin-containing mushrooms. He proposes that the environmental destruction of our planet and many of our modern sociopolitical illnesses can...2022-02-111h 48
Book Club From Hell#4 Vargsmål - Varg VikernesWe read the 1997 classic, Varsgmal, a manifesto on Norwegian cultural destiny written by the infamous Norwegian black metal artist, Varg Vikernes. Varg was the bass guitarist for Mayhem, one of the most influential bands in the black metal genre, on their first album before he murdered his bandmate, Euronymous. In addition to the murder of Euronymous, Varg was also convicted for the burning of several Christian churches. Whilst in prison, Varg produced music under the name Burzum and wrote this manifesto, Vargsmal, exploring Norwegian race politics, national destiny and advocating the return to pre-Christian heathen culture.VERY...2022-01-182h 11
Book Club From Hell#3 J. Posadas's Apocalyptic CommunismJ. Posadas was visionary communist thought leader who advocated nuclear war to bring about the Marxist World Revolution, praised the use of child soldiers in revolutions, believed that aliens are communists, and predicted the end of animal predation in the future socialist utopia. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetApple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671Jack's website: www.jackbc.meLevi's website: www.levioutloud.comwww.thebookclubfromhell...2021-12-271h 47
Book Club From Hell#2 Unabomber Manifesto by Ted KaczynskiTheodore "Ted" Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, is a US domestic terrorist who is currently serving 8 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole for a series of mail and transportation bombings he committed between 1978 and 1995. On this episode, we read his essay "Industrial Society and Its Future", regarded as a seminal text in the anarchoprimitivist tradition. Kaczynski condemns modern society for being fundamentally dehumanising and he advocates for the complete destruction of the technoeconomic system that is enslaving millions of humans and destroying the environment. Kaczynski famously forced the text's publication in the Washington Post in return...2021-12-132h 01
Book Club From Hell#1 Bronze Age Mindset by Bronze Age PervertInspired by such great minds as Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Camille Paglia, "Bronze Age Mindset" is a self-published polemic masterpiece by pseudonymous Internet-alpha male and iconoclastic philosopher, Bronze Age Pervert. In this breathtaking volume, the author critically analyses the conceits of modern society, including the corruption of modern masculinity and oppression by the gynocracy, and advocates a new world order ruled by shredded Chads, the so-called "Golden Age of Piracy".VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet2021-11-282h 49