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Fight club - How the movie cheats the book

Season 3 · Episode 5

Friday, April 21, 2023 • Duration 54:17

A double dip fight club episode about the unfortunate differences between the movie and its source material. In this episode Rafi is replaced by Thomas, who is a person that knows much about movies. We discuss David Fincher, China, Paradise Lost, A Clockwork Orange, and sigma males — all within the context of Fight Club. Hold on to your fedora as we sail into the abyss.

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Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk - Book Review

Season 3 · Episode 4

Friday, February 24, 2023 • Duration 50:45

In this episode, we discuss one of the most iconic and thought-provoking novels of the 20th century. "Fight Club" follows an unnamed narrator as he struggles with insomnia and an unfulfilling job, eventually leading him to create an underground club where men can gather to fight.
Palahniuk explores themes of masculinity, consumerism, and the search for identity in a society that often feels hollow and oppressive. Join us as we break the main rule of Fight Club… talking about Fight Club.

Timestamps

0:00 Introduction/Nick’s thoughts
6:50 About the Author/The film
8:30 Why is it banned?
9:30 Plot (containing spoilers)
14:00 Human Angst
17:00 Main message of novel/Toxic Masculinity
20:45 Favorite scene/ Contradictions in the book
27:20 Marla’s Character
30:00 Is this a story men should be inspired by?
38:40 The sigma male grindset
43:10 The style of Fight Club
46:15 Closing/Final thoughts

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The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq _ Atomised - BOOK REVIEW

Season 3 · Episode 3

Thursday, January 5, 2023 • Duration 45:29

In this episode, we discuss Atomised by Michel Houellebecq, who’s been called among other things — France’s greatest literary export, Enfant terrible, provocateur, and a jerk. The story follows half brothers Michel and Bruno, whose lives are sent on painful and seemingly dissimilar trajectories as consequence of their hippie mother’s neoliberal ideology. The book goes on to chart the evolution and spread of neoliberalism in western society, using the lives of Bruno and Michel to illustrate the conditions it creates for modern life — in which (Houellebecq argues) things like living and loving are rendered impossible. Doesn’t that sound fun!? Come join us and make up your own mind — Is Houellebecq onto something here? Or is he just a cranky incel?

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The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker - Book Review

Season 3 · Episode 2

Friday, October 28, 2022 • Duration 24:40

In this spooky halloween episode we review “The Hellbound Heart”, a 1980’s horror novella by Clive Barker. Barker is a banned author/painter/playwright, who’s been described by Stephen King as “the future of horror”. The Hellbound Heart makes it plain to see why — rendering demons, killers, and the prospect of unending torture in a terrifyingly vivid light. When Frank, a suave hedonist - opens the cursed Lemarchand configuration, he’s transported to a world where one experiences pain to a point that they can no longer differentiate it from pleasure. But after Frank manages to escape back to earth, its up to a young girl named Kirsty to confront him and the demons he’s pursued by. Join us as we explore the further regions of experience in this novella, and discuss what elevates it above typical genre horror. Happy Halloween!

0:00 Intro
1:25 What the novel is actually about
4:35 Characters in the novel
8:00 Who is the most evil character in the novel?
10:30 Does the novel earn its violence?/The language of the novel
15:32 Can this novel have an impact on someone who doesn’t believe in hell?
19:40 Stephen King vs Clive Barker
21:45 Hellraiser movies compared to The Hellbound Heart
23:00 Outro

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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - Book Review

Season 3 · Episode 1

Thursday, October 20, 2022 • Duration 51:29

In this episode, we review “Madame Bovary” by Gustave Flaubert. Published in 1856 - the novel was deemed a threat to morality and caused Flaubert to face charges in the French court - because of the searingly detailed account it gives of protagonist Emma Bovary’s romantic affairs. But the book is anything but romantic - widely considered to be the first ‘modern novel’- Madame Bovary ushered in a new era in fiction by handling its controversial subject matter with a camera like neutrality. The infrequent good, the overwhelmingly banal, and the repulsively ugly details of life are on full display here, - presented in a distanced ‘coolness’ that shaped the mold for modern fiction. Join us as we discuss one of the most influential banned books in history.

Links:

Atlantic Article on Flaubert:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1882/08/a-note-on-flaubert/633293/

James Woods - How Fiction Works
https://slate.com/culture/2008/07/james-wood-s-how-fiction-works.html

It’s Too Late to Apologize - Book Review on Madame Bovary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNZCSodyvQQ&ab_channel=It%27sTooLatetoApologize

A note on Flaubert
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1882/08/a-note-on-flaubert/633293/

0:00 Intro
3:10 About the Novel
7:10 Why it’s banned/style of writing
9:10 Who is Emma Bovary?
13:10 Gustave Flaubert’s Realism/ Style of Writing
22:10 More on realism/Best scenes
27:30 Message of the novel
31:50 Analysis of Emma Bovary
36:20 Charles Bovary / Leon & Rodolphe
43:00 Final Thoughts

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Factotum by Charles Bukowski - BOOK REVIEW

Season 2 · Episode 12

Tuesday, May 3, 2022 • Duration 43:50

This episode centers around “Factotum”, written by the infamous and widely imitated Charles Bukowski. As the name implies, Factotum tells the story of a worker’s life, but Henry Chinaski (Bukowski’s self inspired antihero) is not your average worker— unless your idea of an average worker is someone who constantly drinks, fights, philanders, and writes poetry. Join us as we discuss Bukowski’s unique philosophy on work, women, and a system that’s apparently designed to keep the little guy down.

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The Last Temptation Of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis BOOK REVIEW

Season 2 · Episode 11

Tuesday, April 5, 2022 • Duration 52:51

In this episode, we explore the expanded fictionalized version of Jesus’ life in Nikos Kazantakis “The Last Temptation of Christ”. This story follows the Bible loosely, using Kazantakis thoughts on what Christ must’ve felt before being crucified. It focuses mainly on his struggles of being human in every sense of the word dealing with earthly temptations such as fear, doubt, lust, violence, and reluctance. We explore this banned novel and decide whether or not it is as blasphemous as the Catholic and Greek Orthodox Church claimed it to be.

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How This Short Story Can Make You A Better Writer

Season 2 · Episode 10

Wednesday, March 23, 2022 • Duration 18:47

In this episode, Nick takes you through Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Indian Camp” and explains how it can make you a better writer. The deceptively simple story embodies Hemingway’s iceberg theory - the idea that the weight of a good sentence lies under its surface. Indian camp explores themes like death, birth, maturity, and relationships, - getting great mileage out of very few words.

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The Problem With Book Banning - Interview With Ryan Estrada | Co Author Of Banned Book Club

Season 2 · Episode 9

Tuesday, March 8, 2022 • Duration 26:30

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In this episode we're joined by Ryan Estrada - author of the Eisner nominated graphic novel “Banned Book Club” -Not a typo - the book just happens to have the same name as our channel. It also happens to be an exciting and timely book, exploring the dangers of censorship through the eyes of a young girl living under an oppressive political regime in Korea. We talk with Ryan about his story, censorship, and the recent controversy with Maus.

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Banned Book Club: Tropic Of Cancer by Henry Miller BOOK REVIEW

Season 2 · Episode 8

Tuesday, March 1, 2022 • Duration 33:04

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In this episode we tackle probably the most banned of the banned books we've covered so far - Henry Miller's infamous "Tropic of Cancer". It literally got people sent to jail. This one breaks every rule of polite society, and also every rule in the fiction writing handbook; no plot, no structure, mountains of adjectives, pages long plunges into intangibles, and overall vulgar self indulgence. But that’s kind of the point. Join us and find out why, despite all that, TOC remains in so many 'top 100 books of all time' lists.

1:30 Intro
3:35 About the Author & Novel
5:15 Why it’s banned
6:30 Who really is Arthur Miller?
9:10 Rafaella’s review
13:00 Nick’s Review / The writing style of Miller
16:00 Arthur Rimbaud, Apollo, and Dionysus
17:15 Nietzche on artistic frenzy
20:15 Does this novel work in this style?
20:35 Midroll
22:40 Bukowski vs. Miller
24:10 Stream of consciousness vs simple writing
27:15 Reinventing the self
29:30 Why it’s important to read Tropic of Cancer
30:22 Was Henry Miller truly free?
32:13 Outro

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