PNP Book Club

Welcome to PNP book club where we don’t just talk about books, we break them down into what works, what doesn’t, and why we love (or hate) them.

Jockey turned mystery writer, Dick Francis, understands the dangers of horse racing. In Odds Against he shows us he also understands the danger of greedy men. The author of more than 40 novels published in 35 languages, Dick Francis dives into the corporate corruption off the track.

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Welcome to PNP book club where we don’t just talk about books, we break them down into what works, what doesn’t, and why we love (or hate) them.

From the creator of Sinister and The Black Phone screen play adaption, comes Carghill’s vision of a future without humanity. And it’s still just as crappy.

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Only Cormac McCarthy could turn 300 pages of digging through trash in an apocalyptic world into a novel as beautiful and terrifying as The Road. McCarthy was the Lord, King, and God of word choice. With a single sentence he set tone, scene, and layered depths of emotion. The Road is a Pulitzer Prize novel and deservedly so. Spoiler alert, we love this book.

Welcome to PNP book club where we don’t just talk about books, we break them down into what works, what doesn’t, and why we love (or hate) them.

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Don’t bogart.

In the not-so-distant future, when the Earth is deep into an energy and environmental crisis, young Nailer a teenage scavenger lives day-to-day one what he can strip from abandoned ships on the American gulf coast. Then he finds a rich girl on a wrecked clipper ship his loyalties are tested and his next decision will change or end his life.

Welcome to PNP book club where we don’t just talk about books, we break them down into what works, what doesn’t, and why we love (or hate) them.

Live somewhere without free speech? We’re here for you. You can tell us anything.

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John Scalzi is known for his humorous science fiction. He was also blogging before blogging was cool, starting the Whatever blog in 1998. Today we dive into his Hugo Award winning Star Trek parody Red Shirts.

We know what you’re thinking. But say it anyway.

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Welcome to the PNP Book Club podcast. Today we talk about The Bird's Nest by Shirley Jackson. Most famous for The Haunting of Hill House, which is inspired the Netflix series, and the horrifying short story, The Lottery.

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Published in 1972, Ira Levin’s novel has been made into two movies and several TV shows. In Stepford, new resident Joanna watches her fellow successful female friends give up their success and independence to become the perfect trad wives. The pressure becomes unbearable as her friends fall one by one.

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Exercise your right to free speech.

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Tell your friends! Tell your barber!

Patrick DeWitt is a Canadian transplant known for soul-bearing novels and dark humor. He can jump easily from old west towns to modern cities. With The Sisters Brothers he delivers a master class in word choice and pacing.

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Exercise your right to free speech.

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Tell your friends! Heck tell your enemies!

Take a trip into magical realism with The Returned by Jason Mott. A form of protest and critical literature, magical realism originated in Europe in the 1920s. It exploded in Latin America in 1940s through today as a form of criticism of colonialism. Acclaimed works include A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez; The House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende; and So Far From God by Ana Castillo. Russian author, Mikhail Bulgakov, also used magical realism to criticize the Russian Soviet government’s censorship of free speech in his novel, The Master and Margarita.

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Note: This podcast played originally on our Patreon site 02/07/2019. All references to Patreon are no longer valid as we have moved sites. For more books and writing discussions, come see us at pacificnovelproject.com.

Tell your friends! Heck tell your enemies!

This month we discuss Feed by MT Anderson. Published in 2002 it is a frighteningly accurate exploration of the future social consumerism through an increasingly modern lens.

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Note: This podcast originally aired on our Patreon site 05/02/2019. All references to Patreon are no longer valid as we have moved sites. For more books and writing discussions, come see us at pacificnovelproject.com