
Words About Books
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Words About Books is a podcast where two wannabe writers read and discuss books. Read along with us, or just enjoy the show! New episodes every Sunday.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Description:
Words About Books is a podcast where two wannabe writers read and discuss books. Read along with us, or just enjoy the show! New episodes every Sunday.
Language:
English
Episodes
Nate Discusses Hulk Hogan's Life Outside the Ring for Almost Two Hours! (Part II)
11/9/2025
Are you ready for Nate's Nightmare November to continue?!? We're moving on to PART TWO of Hulk Hogan's book: My Life Outside the Ring. I hope you're ready to hear Hogan talk about how awful his ex-wife was and that Nick did nothing wrong when he wrecklessly crashed his car!
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Duration:01:53:46
The Hydesville Incident - The History of Spiritualism by Arthur Conan Doyle (Part 2)
11/7/2025
We talk about the much hyped Hydesville Incident. The incident that changed everything forever. We also talk about how you can create a fully functioning human body, complete with cardiac and pulmonary systems, out of ectoplasm.
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Duration:01:25:02
Night of the Living Dummy II by R. L. Stein (A Trailer)
11/6/2025
Words About Books is finally covering the Dummy book that everybody wanted/we thought we were getting the first time around. It's going live on Patreon only Saturday 11/8/2025!
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Duration:00:02:28
Discussing Hulk Hogan's Book: My Life Outside the Ring (Part I)
11/2/2025
It's Nate's Nightmare November! We're talking about a wreslting book, again! This time we're talking about THE wrestler of the 1980s, Hulk Hogan. I can't wait. I've been so excited for this. Because it's so bad. It's just terrible. A grown man tells you a lot of lies or exaggerations, craps on his wife, then says "I wish her all the best." This is what my dog would have wanted. Don't forget to support us on Patreon! My dog would have wanted that too.
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Duration:01:32:05
Born of Science - Jane the Killer
10/31/2025
Ben saves Halloween
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Duration:01:22:35
Discussing Silent Invasion The Pennsylvania UFO-Bigfoot Casebook
10/26/2025
A surprisingly sober and intelligent discussion of the Pennsylvania UFO-Bigfoot invasion of 1973. Stan Gordon is my new favorite UFOlogist.
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Duration:01:27:28
Before Hydesville - The History of Spiritualism by Arthur Conan Doyle (Part 1)
10/22/2025
We begin our series on Arthur Conan Doyle's history of spiritualism. In this episode we cover a bit of the pre-history of the movement, discussing three notable mediums who worked before THE HYDESVILLE INCIDENT (that we all remember, because it changed everything forever).
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Duration:01:10:17
Discussing The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty (Part 2)
10/19/2025
We conclude our discussion of The Exorcist. Will good triumph over evil? The answer may confuse you.
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Duration:01:25:30
Discussing The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty (Part 1)
10/12/2025
We spend a long time bringing Nate up to speed on Christianity. Then we spend a long time talking about The Exorcist.
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Duration:01:50:52
Abandoning Jeff the Killer: Scars of Corruption
10/5/2025
Well, hey guys, you know, they can't all be winners. Sometimes you try something thinking it will be fun and it turns into more of what we in the podcasting biz call "a learning experience." And that's what Jeff the Killer: Scars of Corruption is: a learning experience.
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Duration:02:04:23
Discussing Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling (Part 2)
9/28/2025
I hope you're ready for part 2. We've got family abandonment, alien perversion, duels to the ego death, fish people, jellyfish people (they're different), and of course lots of drugs.
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Duration:00:59:14
A Conversation About Overpopulation Fiction With John Bierce
9/24/2025
Apologies, we had some issues with John's audio on this one. Ben and John sit down to discuss the time-honored tradition of Overpopulation Fiction. Is it dead? Is it more relevant than ever before? Can Ben ruin John's career by tricking him into bad-mouthing Taylor Swift?
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Duration:01:29:06
Discussing Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling (Part 1)
9/21/2025
This is without a doubt the strangest book I have ever read. I love it.
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Duration:01:02:26
Discussing Yumi and The Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson
9/14/2025
Are you ready for the Sanderlanche?
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Duration:01:59:48
Continuing to Discuss Mess Effect by Shamus Young until the end of time
9/7/2025
This week nobody asked for this. Ben didn't. Nate didn't. The fans didn't. But yet here we are because SOMEBODY didn't write a book that would take 2 parts despite being 400+ pages. Blame that guy.
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Duration:01:46:17
Talking About Tolkien - The Palantir (Towers, 3-11)
9/3/2025
Pippin goes toe to toe with the will of Sauron. Gandalf wakes up to the screams.
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Duration:01:02:21
Discussing Mess Effect by Shamus Young Part I
8/31/2025
This week Nate tackles something very near and dear to his heart: Mass Effect. Also Shamus Young, a writer who had tragically passed away just a few short years ago. Ben is also here. Sometimes. He's around here. Occasionally he has some good observations that are born out of Nate failing to properly get his point across or describe Shamus Young's writing concepts and then he has to go back and add in a lot of post-recording footgate to better explain himself. This episode started with about 91 minutes of audio and after extensive cuts and recordings it now only has... 101 minutes... well, crap.
Check out Shamus Young's work at https://www.shamusyoung.com/ and consider supporting the author on amazon. The book is currently on sale for $5!
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Duration:01:43:42
Talking About Tolkien - The Voice of Saruman (Towers, 3-10)
8/27/2025
Saruman rolls a charisma saving throw with extreme disadvantage.
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Duration:00:48:07
Discussing Mass Effect Revelation by Drew Karpyshyn
8/24/2025
Ben finally tackles his Christmas present from Nate. Prepare to experience Mass Effect as you've never experienced it before! (Second hand from a guy who wasn't super interested in what he was reading)
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Duration:01:29:01
Talking About Tolkien - Flotsam and Jetsam (Towers, 3-9)
8/20/2025
You really do not want to anger an Ent.
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Duration:00:57:13