Book Club From Hell

Story of the Eye (1928) is a classic of French coom-lit. In it, teenagers engage in a series of sex acts involving ovular and liquid symbols, demonstrating why everyone thinks the French are perverts. It's also a really good book. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http://books.a...

The Turner Diaries (1978) is a notorious work of white nationalist and white supremacist fiction. It is reputed to have influenced a number of terrorist acts, including the 1995 Oklahoma City bombings. Surprisingly for such a work, the spelling and formatting are mostly fine.  VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/re...

Esoteric Trumpism (2024) promises to provide a Spenglerian reading of Donald Trump's life and leadership. Instead, it reads as a collection of strange Trump fanfics. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671 Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBoo...

Prominent Chinese revolutionary Mao Zedong wrote On Guerrilla Warfare in 1937, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. This series of pamphlets was intended to persuade Chinese leaders to also pursue a guerrilla campaign against the invading Japanese military. Full of practical advice on how to conduct guerrilla operations, this book has a little something for everyone. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jac...

Frantz Fanon was an anticolonial theorist and psychiatrist from Martinique, who wrote The Wretched of the Earth  (1961) as an account of colonialism in Algeria. In it, he describes the therapeutic potential of violence and the psychology of the colonisers and colonised. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monar...

Chuck 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 INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671 Our Patreon:...

Mark Fisher, an English philosopher, teacher, blogger and co-founder of the CCRU, published Capitalist Realism in 2009. A work of more accessible anti-capitalism, Fisher hoped to sell 500 copies. Capitalist Realism went on to sell over 100,000 copies, and became  an important work in 21st-century anti-capitalist thought. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.am...

The Breatharian Institute of America was founded by Wiley Brooks. You might be familiar with boring breatharianism, where people don't need to eat in order to survive. Brooks' breatharianism, on the other hand, is dense, complex and exciting. It involves fixing the global matrix with urine, giving birth to super galaxies, avoiding three-dimensional food, and paying $10,000 for a bottle of water (t...

Comrade Kim Goes Flying (2012) is a North Korean romantic comedy, described as "a girl-power fairy tale about dreaming to fly," by one of its co-directors, Nicholas Bonner. The film follows Kim Yong Mi, a plucky coal miner from rural North Korea, who dreams of becoming a trapeze artist in Pyongyang. The film is as odd, but not in the ways you would perhaps expect; a smoulderingly Oedipal relations...

The Tate Bible is a compilation of former kickboxer and social media influencer Andrew Tate's online footprint, put together by G Slim during the covid lockdowns. If, for some perverse reason, you'd prefer to read Andrew Tate's views rather than consume them in a more high-stimulus format, then this is the book for you. Camgirls, Bugattis and the Nietzschean Übermensch's ascent out of The Matrix a...

Triumph 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. V...

Effective accelerationism ('e/acc') is a largely online movement seeking to promote technological optimism. Their evangelism mostly takes the form of shitposting and memes, but something more substantial will occasionally appear. Two such pieces of more substantial e/acc thought are 'What the f* is e/acc?' (authorship unclear) and 'Notes on e/acc principles and tenants,' by @basedbeffjezos and @ba...

Terry Davis was a schizophrenic computer programmer who wrote an operating system by himself. TempleOS, as this creation came to be known, was intended to be the Third Temple, with which Davis could talk to God. Davis achieved a degree of obscure internet fame from, among other things, his streams, where he would show off features of TempleOS, talk to God, play hymns, browse the internet, and shou...

This episode isn't on a particular book, but is on a movement: furries. For the few of you who aren't aware, furries are those who appreciate depictions of anthropomorphic animals. From this central point, furdom has generated a huge amount of culture - and not simply the furry porn that I'm sure you've accidentally stumbled upon on the internet. Generative and passionate, the furry rabbithole (he...

This week's episode is on the Female Dating Strategy Handbook, a collection of the best, highest-value posts from the Female Dating Strategy subreddit and website. Female Dating Strategy is a movement aiming to improve the dating market, by teaching women how to distinguish low- and high-value men, how to cultivate queen energy (that is, how to have standards and self-confidence), and how to evalu...

Lord Timothy Dexter was an 18th century American businessman, who made a great deal of money through a series of bizarre, lucky and, probably, stupid ventures. Shipping coal to Newcastle, selling hot water bottles in the West Indies, speculating on Continental Currency at the end of the American Civil War: Dexter managed to keep turning profits, despite having left school at age eight. A Pickle fo...

Marvin Heemeyer was a resident of Grand Lake, Colorado. After a series of planning disputes with his neighbours, as well as arguments with the administration in the nearby town of Granby, he took the only reasonable course of action: armour-plating a Komatsu D355A bulldozer, and destroying the property of those he disagreed with. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https...

You've heard of Donald Trump, I don't need to introduce him. In 1987, 'Trump: The Art of the Deal' was released, apparently co-written by Donald Trump and journalist Tony Schwartz; part autobiography, part business advice, The Art of the Deal details several of Trump's favourite deals. Schwartz would later claim that Trump contributed nothing to the book, expressing remorse over having contributed...

This is the third episode on the first volume of The Decline of the West, by Oswald Spengler. We cover chapters six and seven, called 'Music and Plastic (I) - The Arts of Form' and 'Music and Plastic (II), Act and Portrait,' respectively. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http:/...

Rhonda Byrne, in her 2006 book 'The Secret,' promises to teach you a method to get literally anything. All you have to do is ask the universe (sorry, capital-U Universe ) in a special way, and the Universe will deliver. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us...

Filippo Tomasso Marinetti was a 20th-Century Italian poet who founded the Futurist movement. In The Futurist Manifesto (1909), Marinetti lays out the tenants of Futurism: a complete rejection of the past, nationalism, contempt for women, veneration of technology and a love of speed. In his endless quest to go fast, Marinetti comes to resemble the archetype of Sonic the Hedgehog, albeit in an Itali...

Jack 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 INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671 Jack's website: www.jackbc.me Levi's website: www.levioutlou...

The Water of Life (a Treatise on Urine Therapy) is, expectedly, a treatise on urine therapy, published by John W Armstrong in 1944. In it, he traces his journey in Biblically-inspired urine therapy, offering advice on how to make women more beautiful and fertile, how to make farm animals healthier, how to cure every disease (except 'mechanical disease') and how to survive for long periods adrift a...

This 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 INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671 Jack's website: www.jac...

Christopher Dorner was an officer in the Los Angeles Police Department. He was fired from the LAPD after a workplace dispute in 2008, and in 2013 he declared war on his former employer, vowing to hunt down and kill police officers and their families. In the course of his brief war, he killed five people: two officers, two civilians, and himself. As justification for his actions, he released a mani...