On December 13, 1973, a young man named Claude Maurice Marcel Vorilhon was hiking at the Puy de Lassolas volcanic crater in France when he saw a light in the fog. A figure emerged sporting long hair, a beard, and a skin tone that “looked a bit like someone with
As soon as we knew this book existed, we knew we had to cover it. We had no choice. This is one of those books that was impossible to turn down. I mean, look at the cover. Who could possibly think that Saddam’s face was the best way to
After more than a decade of notoriety, Tyra Banks’ Modelland – a bizarre dark fantasy YA novel about a magic modeling school - is once again having a moment in the sun. Since publication in 2011, the text has frustrated and fascinated countless commentators, critics and online cynics alike. After discovering a
This week we’ve decided to cut into a slice of literature that’s possibly even more American than apple pie; the Hardy Boys. Although there’s 190 books in the main canon (“Hardy Boys Mystery Stories”), if you add all the book series there’s almost 500 books about
This week, we revisited a classic in the realm of pseudoscience and conspiracies – 1968’s Chariots of the Gods by serial fraudster Erich Von Däniken. For anyone unfamiliar, this is the original work that popularized “ancient aliens” theories by taking established sci-fi tropes about alien influence on the development
Picture the scene; it’s a cold night in Wales in the 1970s. You’re on the rocky shore with your sweetie taking in the night air, and you think, why not leave the clothes behind and go skinny dipping? Only when you do, your sweetie disappears beneath the waves,
When it comes to the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, it’s hard not to feel a little late to the party. I was just out of high school when this book came out. Bush was a lame duck president, TED Talks were saving the world, and I was too
Season 1 is barely in the history books, and its time to start Season 2 with our first episode. As a celebration of all the Pieces of Shit we’ve read, we’re hosting an official Poo-litzer Prize Awards Banquet where we review the worst stuff we read in
In 2024’s “The War on Warriors,” Pete Hegseth takes a tried-and-true template treatise - the woke mob has taken over x institution - and applies it to the US military. The premise is simple: while real (white) men were fighting overseas, the gay/leftist/liberal/trans/ANTIFA/fat/university-
The manosphere is getting mainstream attention right now. Louis Theroux did a recent expose on it, as did the New York Times. Clavicular keeps jestermaxing, and Sneako is taking his rizz to meta levels by path-mapping the entire social hierarchy in real-time. Or something. I don’t know.
Check out the podcast in our player below or on your preferred app under "POS Book Club." Zhuan Falun by Li Hongzhi is the central text of Falun Gong, a spiritualist movement that is both banned and persecuted in China and has since become a major player in
Podcast available below as well on all major platforms like Apple, Spotify, etc. Safe Space Violations. A review of “Summer Skate: A Novel” by Sean Avery & Leslie Cohen The romance book and tv series “Heated Rivalry” has done two things that no one ever thought possible: it made gay