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Terrible Book Club

By: Chris & Paris
  • Summary

  • Join Chris & Paris every other Tuesday to discover if you really can judge a book by its hideous cover, bad title, or weird synopsis. Support TBC on Patreon
    Copyright 2023 Terrible Book Club
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Episodes
  • The Witchmaster's Key (The Hardy Boys #55) by Franklin W. Dixon - Episode 187
    Mar 26 2024

    Today's episode is Part 1 of our childhood nostalgia retrospective! We each chose a book for each other from a series we loved as kids. Chris remembered reading all of The Hardy Boys series, so Paris chose The Witchmaster's Key for our first return trip to childhood. Prepare yourselves for 1970s Satanic Panic absurdity in the UK, complete with evil dentists, rubber masks, the reddest of herrings, and a scene straight out of Misery!

    Join us next week for Part 2 where we discuss our experience reading something from Paris's beloved childhood book series, Dear America.

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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Butch by Jay Rayn - Episode 186
    Mar 12 2024

    We read Butch for today's episode at the request of listener Os who emailed us last year saying,"A while ago, I read a book that, while incredibly badly written, still somehow left me feeling for the protagonist, because all the other characters are (in every sense of the word) ridiculously homophobic. It's called "Butch" by Jay Rayn. It's a "life story thus far" type of book about a butch woman who constantly ights discrimination in the most cartoonish ways possible and romances just about every woman she meets. I'm 99% sure this is just a veiled attempt at rewriting her own biography by the author. Maybe this can be a fresh bad taste for your reading palate. Best, Os (a listener who bought that book thinking it was actually a big deal for butch culture, only to realize they had been tricked by the self-publishing author).”

    References & Thanks:

    • "G.I. Joes in Barbie Land": Recontextualizing Butch in Twentieth-Century Lesbian Culture by Sherrie A. Inness & Michele Lloyd
    • https://www.ncsby.org/content/normative-sexual-behavior
    • Thanks to Tris for consulting on this episode and helping us navigate Butch identity

    In addition to our usual barnyard language, today’s episode includes discussion or mention of: homophobia, racism, and sexual assault.

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    1 hr and 39 mins
  • How it Unfolds (Far Reaches Book 1) by James S.A. Corey - Episode 185
    Feb 27 2024

    This time, we read How it Unfolds (Far Reaches Book 1) by James S.A. Corey, published by Amazon Original Stories in 2023. Chris really enjoyed The Expanse by Corey, so he was looking through other works by them and found this short story. Unfortunately, though, it had a description that made him think it was more suitable for TBC than for his personal reading adventures.

    Today's episode includes our usual barnyard language along with some discussions of sex and relationship dynamics.

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    45 mins

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