46. The Boys of Winter - Wayne Coffey
Two Olympics books back to back, are the Phools out of their minds!?! Always were baby. This week's book is a deep dive into the stories behind the MIRACLE ON ICE!!! Often called the greatest upse...
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45. Foxcatcher - Mark Schultz
It’s OLYMPICS season folks and you know what that means! TIME TO TALK ABOUT TRUE CRIME!!!An Olympic Gold medal winning wrestler is murdered by his coach. His brother (also an Olympic Gold medal winnin...
44. The Fisherman - John Langan (Part 2)
IT’S SPOOKY FISHING PART 2 of 2!!!With Zombie Mom out of the way, it’s time now to travel to the black ocean where The Fisherman and his zombie fish minions toil endlessly to ensare a primordial evil...
43. The Fisherman - John Langan (Part 1)
What do you get when you mix grief, fishing, and PRIMORDIAL EVIL!?!?This freakin book that’s what. THE FISHERMAN is an award winning cosmic horror with all the fixins. Greiving widowers, a barkeeper’s...
42. The Boatbuilder - Daniel Gumbiner
BOATS AGAIN!?! They said it couldn't be done... Berg moves to a coastal town to get clean from drugs, and takes a job with old boatbuilder to build boats to smuggle drugs. Sort of a full-circle, c...
41. The Wager - David Grann
Piracy, Shipwreck, MUTINY!!!! The Phools are shivering their timbers this week! On the way to steal some treasure for England, the Wager is shipwrecked in Patagonia! They get rescued but they get too...
40. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
This has nothing to do with Capitan America. And for the record, that movie had nothing to do with this book. It's a Utopian nightmare!!! In a future where everyone is happy, why does it feel so wrong...
39. Dungeon Crawler Carl 3: The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook - Matt Dinniman
CHOO CHOO!!!!! Everything you love about Dungeon Crawler Carl, except this time... TRAINS!!! That's right. The Phools are back with the greatest LitRPG series of all time. Will Carl and Donut be able...
38. The Phoolie Awards (2025)
HOW IS IT NEW YEARS!?! It’s time once again to award the Phoolies (It’s new). The Phools reflect on this year’s books, how they’ve changed as people, and most importantly, which characters get a place...
37. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding - Agatha Christie
IT'S AGATHA CHRISTIE TIME!!!! It's the most wonderful time of the year! With the kids jingle belling and everyone telling you "DON'T EAT NONE OF THE PLUM PUDDING!" because it'...
36. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë (Part 2)
AND WE’RE BACK!!! For part 2 of 2 of WUTHERING HEIGHTS!!!Last week, the Phools left the Heights at the heights of tension. Heathcliff pulled a Count of Monte Cristo and came back rich and ready to rui...
35. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë (Part 1)
The Heights… are Wuthering A dreary manor on a dreary moor is haunted. Metaphorically by an exceptionally angry man, and literally by the ghost of the woman he loves. Is it the greatest love story of...
34. The Tiger - John Vaillant
NONFICTIONAL!!! This book is BONKERS!!! And it really happened! Basically, a poacher got eaten by a Tiger in Eastern Russia. But since it’s written by our main man John Vaillant y’all KNOW we’re getti...
33. Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut (Part 2)
FREEWILL IS AN ILLUSION!!! 1/3rd of the Phools believe that, but thats the third writing this description so HA! Got em. The Phools are back with Part 2 of the sci-fi epic SIRENS OF TITAN by the lege...
32. Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut (Part 1)
What is the meaning of life? Just a little question the Phools are tackling on a Monday. This week's book is SIRENS OF TITAN!!! A Solar System spanning Sci-Fi epic by the legendary Kurt Vonnegut!...
31. The Running Man - Stephen King (as Richard Bachman)
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!! The game is simple. The longer he lives, the more money he makes. Who's hunting him? EVERYONE!!!----Episode Summary:In this conversation, the Phools delve into Stephen King&...
30. Twilight - Stephanie Meyer
It had to happen eventually!!! You’d better hold on tight spider monkeys because this week it's TWILIGHT for goodness sakes! A teenage girl falls in love with a vampire and the late 2000’s were ne...
29. Frankenstein (Part 2) - Mary Shelley
Last week the monster tried to love, this week he chooses VIOLENCE!!! We’re back to finish the story of everyone’s favorite delusional scientist and corpse monster! The hopeless pursuit of happiness b...
28. Frankenstein (Part 1) - Mary Shelley
IT'S ALIVE!!!! Frankenstein Fun Fact (FFF) #1, nobody ever says "It's Alive" in Frankenstein. FFF #2: It's maybe the greatest book of all time!!! This week the Phools revisit Ma...
27. House of Hell (Part 2) - Steve Jackson
The phools are right where we left them. STUCK! in the mysterious HOUSE OF HELL!!! This House of Hell is part of the Fighting Fantasy series from the 80’s. Its’ part book, part game, all doors. Kyle d...