PoS Book Club

The book club explores Russel Brand’s tell-all, say-nothing tale of a convenient conversion to Christianity.

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The book club take their first dip into the romantasy genre, exploring a universe of sausages, piss wenches, and dragonriders that saddle up using magic buttplugs. 
    
 Welcome to the wild world of Mara Leigh’s "Veiled Flames."

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The fellas explore a high-stakes political thriller hot off the soulless assembly line of James Patterson. The president's daughter has been kidnapped: terrorism, Chinese espionage, murder, conspiracy and international pedophiles abound. 

Bill Clinton's name is on the book, too.

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The book club delegates convene to review season 2 and submit to a rigorous audit of member performances, finances, and project KPIs.

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The guys dig into the commissioned biography of John R. Brinkley, a man who defined the modern scam artist by curing male impotency through goat testicle transplants, building a media empire, and refusing to accept election results.

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The book club takes a look at "It Ends with Us" by Colleen Hoover, a bestselling blend of romantic tropes and flawed portrayals of domestic assault. 

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This week, our dedicated dilettantes dissect Yes to Human Cloning, a techno-optimist utopian manifesto.

Is this the screed of a Silicon Valley pseudointellectual desperate to secure more runway? Don't be fooled: it's a 2001 work from Raël, notorious leader of the Raelian UFO sex cult, who believes humanity was cloned into existence by alien nudists.

The boys trace Raël's path from a UFO encounter in 1973 that rewrote the bible to the 2003 Clonaid hoax, and ask why his oddball movement fell into decline. 

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Mission accomplished! Book club coalition forces have secured Zabibah and the King, a romance novel / political allegory / nauseating sexual violence exploitation work written by Saddam Hussein in the twilight of his tenure as Iraq’s notorious dictator.

This episode attempts to make sense of the book in the context of Saddam’s brutal reign, US disruption of the Middle East, and the necessary ingredients for a good romance. Plus: news and doings, dictator lit, Saddam’s blood Quran, a round of Name That Dictator, and other tangents.

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The gentlemen grab their graduation gowns after completing Tyra Banks' Modelland, an ambitious and horrifying vanity project from the supermodel, media mogul and America's Next Top Model host. 

This episode explores Tyra's ill-fated attempt to create Harry Potter for models - or maybe Hunger Games for models, or maybe House of 1000 Corpses for models - it's not totally clear.  

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Gather 'round, gumshoes. The boys are on the beat this week cracking the case of 1933's Footprints Under the Window, a remarkably racist entry in early Hardy Boys canon centered on anti-Chinese xenophobia. Beyond the text, our detectives dig into the sleazy world of the Stratemeyer Syndicate (also known for Nancy Drew) and their immense impact on American YA fiction and the book world at large.

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