Hardcover Hooligans
Two comedians read popular fantasy, sci-fi, and horror books.
About the show
There’s a lot of books out there. Good books. Bad books. Really bad books. Some books you might read some day, and some books you just want to know what all the fuss is about.
Join comedians Danylo Loutchko and J. McIntyre Godwin as they read, review, critique, and joke about popular fantasy, sci-fi, and horror books, every two weeks.
And yes, if you listen to us talk about a book, it counts as reading it and you can put it on your Goodreads.
Episodes
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A Court of Thorns and Roses - Part 2 (Re-upload)
December 30th, 2025 | 1 hr 24 mins
book, book podcast, books, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, review
Cauldron boil and fry me! It's part two of our discussion of the fairy smut phenomenon! And yes, Feyre's bowels are still watery!
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A Court of Thorns and Roses - Part 1 (Re-upload)
December 29th, 2025 | 1 hr 26 mins
book, book podcast, books, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, review
In anticipation of our return to the world of Sarah J. Maas, here's our first episode on the romantasy phenomenon.
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Oops, We Did It Again (A Canticle for Leibowitz - Part 3)
December 15th, 2025 | 1 hr 5 mins
book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, horror, review, scifi
After 400 years, humanity has finally recovered all their technology…including nuclear bombs! Uh oh!
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Lightbulb Envy (A Canticle for Leibowitz - Part 2)
December 1st, 2025 | 1 hr 16 secs
book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, horror, review, scifi
We finally arrive at the first piece of true advanced technology in this novel: a lightbulb.
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Hard Catholic System (A Canticle for Leibowitz - Part 1)
November 17th, 2025 | 1 hr 24 mins
book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, horror, review, scifi
No lasers, no spaceships, just a sci-fi novel about a monk who finds a grocery list. Featuring our first ever guest on the podcast!
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Is Fantasy Worldbuilding...Evil? (Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius)
September 19th, 2025 | 41 mins 16 secs
book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, horror, review, scifi
After an unintentional summer hiatus, we’re back with the third and final installment of our short series on Borges short stories. And oh no! It turns out a billionaire creating a fantasy planet with his friends can destroy the world.
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One Long Book Joke (Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote)
June 2nd, 2025 | 51 mins 43 secs
book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, horror, review, scifi
If we claimed we wrote a Borges story and read it in its entirety at the end of our podcast, that would make the story infinitely richer.
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The Nightmare of Infinite Books (The Library of Babel)
April 30th, 2025 | 48 mins 30 secs
book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, horror, review, scifi
An infinite library implies the existence of infinite Mr. Beast video transcripts.
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High School Prank GONE WRONG (Carrie)
April 14th, 2025 | 1 hr 13 mins
book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, horror, review, scifi
The moral of this story is to not bully the girl with latent psychic abilities.
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Everything Is a Video Game (Dungeon Crawler Carl)
April 1st, 2025 | 59 mins 24 secs
book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, review, scifi
I guess books are just video games now.
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Is Being Blue a Superpower? (Watchmen)
March 17th, 2025 | 1 hr 14 mins
book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, review, scifi
That’s right, we read comic books now! Just kidding, it’s called a "graphic novel". And this one’s about a bunch of superheroes who aren’t really that super and one blue guy who is TOO super. Get ready for morally grey characters, questionable motives, and a weird spooky pirate story.
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Boredom Spren (The Way of Kings - Part 2)
March 3rd, 2025 | 1 hr 17 mins
book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, review
We finish The Way of Kings and are left with boredomspren floating around our computers. Plus, we read some one-star Goodreads reviews of The Way of Kings and do a quick overview of the other Stormlight Archive books.
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When Authors Play Too Many Video Games (The Way of Kings - Part 1)
February 17th, 2025 | 1 hr 34 mins
book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, review
We embark on The Way Of Kings, the first book in Brandon Sanderson’s magnum opus series, The Stormlight Archive.
This book dares to explore such important questions as “what if someone who was good at fighting also had depression?” and “what if big swords but no blood?”
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Fitz’s Frustrating Finale (Assassin’s Quest - Part 3)
February 3rd, 2025 | 49 mins
book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, review
Fitz’s story finds a poetic, complex, and bittersweet ending, but all we can talk about are Prince Verity’s cool silver arms. Which begs the question: did Robin Hobb want Prince Verity to eventually become this world’s Silver Surfer?
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A Sad Life But At Least You’re Hot (Assassin’s Quest - Part 2)
January 21st, 2025 | 45 mins 45 secs
book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, review
Are chronic pain, sadness, social isolation, and the unbearable burden of duty worth it if it means you get abs?
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