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Welcome to Banned Book Club where we believe that the most controversial books are often the best books. Join us as we dive into literature that has been good enough to raise the ire of governments, school-boards, and concerned parents all over the world. We hope that by the end of each episode you will agree with us on this point, if a book is banned its worth reading.
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1A 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.Every sale supports local bookstores. Bookshop is on a mission to financially support your local, independent bookstores. Soc...
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.Timesta...
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 th...
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 poi...
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 neutralit...
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....
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 Cath...
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.If you liked or didn't like this episode, let us know.Leave us a comment and subscribe to our channel!Ban...
Get "Banned Book Club" by clicking the link below and support local book stores.https://bookshop.org/a/57229/9781945820427In 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 Rya...
Get "Tropic Of Cancer" by clicking the link below and support local book stores.https://bookshop.org/a/57229/9780802131782In 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 vul...
Get "MAUS" by clicking the link below and support local book stores.https://bookshop.org/a/57229/9780679406419In this episode we examine ‘Maus’, the recently banned Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel by Art Spiegelman. It tells the story of a son trying to reconnect with his father while the shadow of the Holocaust looms heavily in the background. By not hammering the inherent emotion of source material, ‘Maus’ inavedertantly becomes the most heart rending depiction of the Holocaust we’ve s...
Get "The Stranger" by clicking the link below and support local book stores.https://bookshop.org/a/57229/9780679720201In this episode we investigate “The Stranger” - Albert Camus’ most famous and most controversial novel. The story, really a prolonged meditation on the death of meaning — follows Mersault - an unassuming businessman who’s passivity knows no bounds. But his apathetic approach to life quickly takes him to the edge of the law, of common morality, and of the society he’s born into...
Get "The Inferno" by clicking the link below and support local book stores.https://bookshop.org/a/57229/9780451531391In this episode we cover "The Inferno" by Dante Alighieri; inestimably influential, highly controversial since its release in the 1400’s . . . it is after all about Hell, hell with a capital H. This first segment of the three part "comedia" follows Dante and his poetic guide, Virgil —through the nine circles of hell. Each circle corresponds to a particular sin, and gets progres...
Get "The Hobbit" by clicking the link below and support local book stores.https://bookshop.org/a/57229/97805479...In this episode we investigate the grandfather of modern fantasy literature, J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit”— probably the most wholesome banned book we’ve covered! The story follows Bilbo, who’s convinced by a wizard to leave the sheltered comfort of his “hobbit hole” and reclaim a treasure guarded by the great dragon Smaug. Is this simply another rote exercise of “the hero’s journ...
Get "American Psycho" by clicking the link below and support local book stores.https://bookshop.org/a/57229/9780679735779In this episode we ‘dissect’ American Psycho, a divisive novel from one of America’s most transgressive authors - Brett Easton Ellis. Set in the era of 80’s excess, Psycho follows Patrick Bateman - a young high-powered business man who also happens to be a deranged serial murderer. This novel ignores plot and narrative structure in favor of aesthetics and social commentary....
Get "Dune" by clicking the link below and support local book stores.https://bookshop.org/a/57229/9780441013593This episode covers Frank Herbert’s “Dune”, the seminal sci-fi novel that inspired Star Wars and shaped the genre as we know it today. Dune follows young Paul Atreides as he ascends from destitution to the galactic throne. To do this he must navigate the hostile desert environment of Arrakis, as well as a precarious political landscape of feudal houses vying for control of the “spice”...
Get "Lolita" by clicking the link bellow and support local book stores.https://bookshop.org/a/57229/9780679723165In this episode, we cover Vladimir Nabokov's infamous novel “Lolita”. According to Vanity Fair, this book is considered to be “the only convincing love story of this century.” The novel is famous for its controversial subject: pedophilia. Humbert Humbert, the novel’s unreliable narrator and protagonist is obsessed with nymphets - specifically 12-year-old Dolores Haze, whom he nickn...
In this episode we discuss “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger, which tells the story of American literature’s most famous unreliable narrator Holden Caulfield. Is Holden just a whiny teenager? Or is he one of the most brilliant characters in modern fiction? Join us to find out.Every sale supports local bookstores. Bookshop is on a mission to financially support your local, independent bookstores. Socially Conscious. Fast Shipping. Huge Selection.https://bookshop.org/shop/bannedbookclub...
In this episode we discuss Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski. This semi-autobiographical story centers around the childhood of Bukowski’s alter ego, Henry Chinaski. It is a coming of age story devoid of sunshine, rainbows, hugs, and moral platitudes. The book is filled instead with humor, action, and everyday madness. Join us as we explore this origin story of one of America’s greatest curmudgeons, if you have the stomach for it.Every sale supports local bookstores. Bookshop is on a mission to f...
In this episode we discuss Patrick Süskind's Perfume, a murder mystery told primarily through the sense of smell. Join us as we venture into the beautiful and disturbing world of scent, in this truly unique banned book.Every sale supports local bookstores. Bookshop is on a mission to financially support your local, independent bookstores. Socially Conscious. Fast Shipping. Huge Selection.https://bookshop.org/shop/bannedbookclubIf you liked or didn't like this episode, let us know.Leave us a c...
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