Pleasant Evenings Book Club

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  • 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
  • Pleasant Evenings Book Club // Sabres of Paradise (Part 3)
    Aug 11 2024

    The ending to Sabres of Paradise offers a sober counterpart to the high passions of the previous two parts. The story of a rebellion that even in defeat refuses to be forgotten shifts into the story of a man who, in captivity, refuses to sacrifice his dignity and faces his new life and coming death with grace few can imitate. We count down all the pieces that fall into place as history marches on past the Murid Rebellion. The hostages return to their homes, the Russian Empire consolidates its victories in Ozymandian pride, and mountains still stand. Closing this book felt like saying goodbye to a world we were immersed in for months. We can't wait to return to the Caucasus.

    Opening Song: Laudanum by Velvet Cacoon

    Closing Song: Dag Lezginka by Oleksandr Nepytailenko

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    1 hr and 33 mins
  • Mobile Suit Book Club - Victory Gundam (Part 2)
    Jun 30 2024

    It won't be the last we see of it, but this is as far as the Universal Century goes.

    In some ways compromised but never boring or lacking ambition, Victory Gundam is a true Tomino original and one of our favorite things that we've covered so far.

    For this discussion we discuss the motivations of colonization's middle-managers, inter-generational conflicts vs. cooperation, and more on Lupe Cineau's psychology than is probably merited.

    Join us next time as we wrap up the third and final installment of Sabres of Paradise, and next, Fighter G Gundam.

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    1 hr and 25 mins
  • Sabres of Paradise by Lesley Blanch // Part 2
    May 10 2024

    Part two of Lesley Blanch's Sabres of Paradise is takes us beyond beyond introductions and scene setting and places the reader in the middle of the push and pull of rebellion. (Though many scenes are still set and characters introduced in Lesley Blanch's signature prose). The Russians acclimate to fighting in the Caucasus and the people of the Caucasus hold fast under the relentless onslaught of Russian invasion. We discuss where Murid resistance frays in the examples of Hamzad Beg and Shamyl's own son, the early examples of guerilla tactics and counter-insurgency present in the Murid War, the and the terrifying counterfactual of horse-sized war cats.

    Intro and outro Music: Laudanum by Velvet Cacoon

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    1 hr and 24 mins

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