Pleasant Evenings Book Club
Welcome to Pleasant Evenings Book Club, a podcast focused on literary criticism and analysis. Our main focus is literature but we also have been known to dabble in movies, television, and frankly whatever we see fit. We’re here to have fun with some heavy texts, and more than anything else, make more evenings pleasant. Currently on a quest to watch all of Mobile Suit Gundam, but we’re still a book club!
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Episodes
Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
Have you heard of the song of the Hyades in dim Carcosa? Where black stars rise and where flap the tatters of the King in Yellow? No? Well you can read all about it in the fake play 'The King in Yellow' which seems to cause the characters in the stories from Robert Chambers' short story collection 'The King in Yellow' all kinds of troubles.
There are four stories in this collection that built the foundation for what would be called the "Carcosa Mythos," and we're reading all of them here on Pleasant Evenings Book Club. This episode covers the first two and the following episode will wrap things up. For now, expect to listen to a conversation on the madness that can take over the lives one person, three, or ten-thousand.
Monday Jul 04, 2022
Monday Jul 04, 2022
You've seen the video game adaptation in Top 10 lists for "MOst DISTURBING GAMES!" (maybe that's just me) but have you read the landmark 1967 short story by Harlan Ellison?
It's bleak, it's unhinged, and finally, it's being covered by the only podcast on the internet devoted to having pleasant evenings, Pleasant Evenings Book Club!
Monday Jul 04, 2022
Monday Jul 04, 2022
Probably the most famous horror writer you can't find in an airport, Thomas Ligotti is the name to beat for cult-status in literary horror.
For our first episode of Pleasant Evenings Book Club, we're diving into his Nyctalops Trilogy. Three very different stories linked by a very familiar evil at the center of the stories' point of view.
We talk about the warped mind of abusers, pessimism in modern life, and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. It's a good time.
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