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!
It's been a long time coming, but I bring you Pleasant Evening's first episode on Mobile Fighter G Gundam. In this first part, we chat about our first impressions on Yasuhiro Imagawa's work, which also happens to be the first Gundam alternative universe (AU). This discussion includes conversations about the hyperreal and the random cinema that informs our perspectives.
This is my first time editing for our podcast. I hope you enjoy my first contribution.
Thank you so much for listening!
Best,
Corbin of Pleasant Evenings Book Club.
11 Aug 2024
Pleasant Evenings Book Club // Sabres of Paradise (Part 3)
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
30 Jun 2024
Mobile Suit Book Club - Victory Gundam (Part 2)
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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