Paranoid Reading (Steven Ayy)
@paranoidreading.bsky.social
Crime, weird fiction, demonology & deep politics. How Noided, how Grim. Reviews on Substack, videos on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/@ParanoidReading
https://pagebound.co/users/stevenanteau
https://substack.com/@stevenayy
http://paranoidreading.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@ParanoidReading
https://pagebound.co/users/stevenanteau
https://substack.com/@stevenayy
http://paranoidreading.com/
Just finished Butcher's Crossing.
w0w. 420/69.
Pick my next problematic Reddit-coded book by a cishet white male (or Connor O'Flannery)
w0w. 420/69.
Pick my next problematic Reddit-coded book by a cishet white male (or Connor O'Flannery)
August 1, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Just finished Butcher's Crossing.
w0w. 420/69.
Pick my next problematic Reddit-coded book by a cishet white male (or Connor O'Flannery)
w0w. 420/69.
Pick my next problematic Reddit-coded book by a cishet white male (or Connor O'Flannery)
Reading Book of the New Sun for the 2nd time. Completely different experience everyone should experience.
Clearly Scifi, not fantasy
All the allusions to prophecy and future
Cacogens and spaceship are obvious this time through
So excited for this read
Clearly Scifi, not fantasy
All the allusions to prophecy and future
Cacogens and spaceship are obvious this time through
So excited for this read
July 24, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Reading Book of the New Sun for the 2nd time. Completely different experience everyone should experience.
Clearly Scifi, not fantasy
All the allusions to prophecy and future
Cacogens and spaceship are obvious this time through
So excited for this read
Clearly Scifi, not fantasy
All the allusions to prophecy and future
Cacogens and spaceship are obvious this time through
So excited for this read
I don't get BOOK OF THE NEW SUN, but I want to!
So I wrote myself a syllabus and I'm reading it again, slowly, with a highlighter, chasing every theory I never understood.
I will become a BOTNS Nerd!
New video:
So I wrote myself a syllabus and I'm reading it again, slowly, with a highlighter, chasing every theory I never understood.
I will become a BOTNS Nerd!
New video:
My BOOK OF THE NEW SUN Personal Study Syllabus
I don't get it. But I want to.
Everything I made for this project — the full curriculum and the chapter-by-chapter reading journal:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1V-tk79Tk2UvzcYu3GZNZiDrlvxLoy1Ze?usp=sharing
MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO
The Rustmonster's BotNS trailer :
https://www.youtube.com
youtu.be
July 22, 2026 at 11:42 AM
I don't get BOOK OF THE NEW SUN, but I want to!
So I wrote myself a syllabus and I'm reading it again, slowly, with a highlighter, chasing every theory I never understood.
I will become a BOTNS Nerd!
New video:
So I wrote myself a syllabus and I'm reading it again, slowly, with a highlighter, chasing every theory I never understood.
I will become a BOTNS Nerd!
New video:
I don't get BOOK OF THE NEW SUN but I want to!
I wrote myself a syllabus and I'm reading it again, slowly, with a highlighter, chasing every theory I never understood.
I will become a BOTNS Nerd!
New video:
I wrote myself a syllabus and I'm reading it again, slowly, with a highlighter, chasing every theory I never understood.
I will become a BOTNS Nerd!
New video:
My BOOK OF THE NEW SUN Personal Study Syllabus
I don't get it. But I want to.
Everything I made for this project — the full curriculum and the chapter-by-chapter reading journal:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1V-tk79Tk2UvzcYu3GZNZiDrlvxLoy1Ze?usp=sharing
MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO
The Rustmonster's BotNS trailer :
https://www.youtube.com
youtu.be
July 22, 2026 at 8:32 AM
I don't get BOOK OF THE NEW SUN but I want to!
I wrote myself a syllabus and I'm reading it again, slowly, with a highlighter, chasing every theory I never understood.
I will become a BOTNS Nerd!
New video:
I wrote myself a syllabus and I'm reading it again, slowly, with a highlighter, chasing every theory I never understood.
I will become a BOTNS Nerd!
New video:
You roasted my TBR as a "red flag shelf". What's BookTube even for if it's just dunking on what people read?
The Internet Roasted My TBR Stack - (Reading While Male)
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July 20, 2026 at 9:21 AM
You roasted my TBR as a "red flag shelf". What's BookTube even for if it's just dunking on what people read?
What will be your job in Blood Meridian?
I’d be the guy who writes ‘NO CHILDREN’ on the scalp bounty contracts and die young because of my teeth
I’d be the guy who writes ‘NO CHILDREN’ on the scalp bounty contracts and die young because of my teeth
July 19, 2026 at 2:09 PM
What will be your job in Blood Meridian?
I’d be the guy who writes ‘NO CHILDREN’ on the scalp bounty contracts and die young because of my teeth
I’d be the guy who writes ‘NO CHILDREN’ on the scalp bounty contracts and die young because of my teeth
Post yer fav cafes for reading on a Sunday
July 19, 2026 at 2:41 AM
Post yer fav cafes for reading on a Sunday
I need a name for this TBR pile.
Wrong answers only.
Wrong answers only.
July 18, 2026 at 6:54 AM
I need a name for this TBR pile.
Wrong answers only.
Wrong answers only.
Rereading Blood Meridian after a lot of weird fiction & cosmic horror, and the way he describes the landscape, what it does to the men, the judge as a living archon (Azhrarn from Tanith Lee's Night's Master). It reads closer to Hodgson than any Western. Truth's in the middle.
July 17, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Rereading Blood Meridian after a lot of weird fiction & cosmic horror, and the way he describes the landscape, what it does to the men, the judge as a living archon (Azhrarn from Tanith Lee's Night's Master). It reads closer to Hodgson than any Western. Truth's in the middle.
One of those paragraphs that sends chills up my spine and sends me running for a pen.
July 16, 2026 at 1:17 PM
One of those paragraphs that sends chills up my spine and sends me running for a pen.
Just finished The King in Yellow for my third time and the connection to True Detective finally clicked. Carcosa isn't a place, it's your country once you stop believing. New essay up on the Substack
open.substack.com/pu...
open.substack.com/pu...
July 16, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Just finished The King in Yellow for my third time and the connection to True Detective finally clicked. Carcosa isn't a place, it's your country once you stop believing. New essay up on the Substack
open.substack.com/pu...
open.substack.com/pu...
Nights Master by Tanith Lee is the fantasy book I fight for.
No worldbuilding fluff but a rich vista of demons and curses, talismans, villains to heroes and back to villains again. Grim, horny, folkstories so cement I was waiting for Wishbone to pop up and narrate. Top tier
No worldbuilding fluff but a rich vista of demons and curses, talismans, villains to heroes and back to villains again. Grim, horny, folkstories so cement I was waiting for Wishbone to pop up and narrate. Top tier
July 14, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Nights Master by Tanith Lee is the fantasy book I fight for.
No worldbuilding fluff but a rich vista of demons and curses, talismans, villains to heroes and back to villains again. Grim, horny, folkstories so cement I was waiting for Wishbone to pop up and narrate. Top tier
No worldbuilding fluff but a rich vista of demons and curses, talismans, villains to heroes and back to villains again. Grim, horny, folkstories so cement I was waiting for Wishbone to pop up and narrate. Top tier
Name a harder opener than American Tabloid, I'll wait
July 14, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Name a harder opener than American Tabloid, I'll wait
Hard to think of a more final ending than Black Easter by James Blish
July 13, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Hard to think of a more final ending than Black Easter by James Blish
Reading My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue by Samuel E. Chamberlain
The true account of Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
A world as brutal and foreign as any fantasy novel set in the depths of Hell
The most surprising B.M. revelation is that The Judge was a real dude
The true account of Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
A world as brutal and foreign as any fantasy novel set in the depths of Hell
The most surprising B.M. revelation is that The Judge was a real dude
July 11, 2026 at 2:26 AM
Reading My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue by Samuel E. Chamberlain
The true account of Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
A world as brutal and foreign as any fantasy novel set in the depths of Hell
The most surprising B.M. revelation is that The Judge was a real dude
The true account of Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
A world as brutal and foreign as any fantasy novel set in the depths of Hell
The most surprising B.M. revelation is that The Judge was a real dude
The Iron Heel won a long time ago
July 2, 2026 at 1:40 AM
The Iron Heel won a long time ago
It's 1996
June 30, 2026 at 10:58 AM
It's 1996
Just posted my review of The Heavenly Table by Donald Ray Pollock.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
1917, three broke brothers turn to crime, and a posse just as rotten chases them down. Way funnier and meaner than I expected.
youtu.be/2tRNrY8uVB8
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
1917, three broke brothers turn to crime, and a posse just as rotten chases them down. Way funnier and meaner than I expected.
youtu.be/2tRNrY8uVB8
The Heavenly Table by Donald Ray Pollock — Book Review
YouTube video by Paranoid Reading
youtu.be
June 30, 2026 at 6:15 AM
Just posted my review of The Heavenly Table by Donald Ray Pollock.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
1917, three broke brothers turn to crime, and a posse just as rotten chases them down. Way funnier and meaner than I expected.
youtu.be/2tRNrY8uVB8
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
1917, three broke brothers turn to crime, and a posse just as rotten chases them down. Way funnier and meaner than I expected.
youtu.be/2tRNrY8uVB8
Summer off to a bang
June 29, 2026 at 10:56 AM
Summer off to a bang
Reposted by Paranoid Reading (Steven Ayy)
It’s criminal that Donald Ray Pollock isn’t read as widely as he should, and the fan in me yearns for a new book soon…it’s been far too long! But if you’ve not discovered him before, I’d highly recommend ‘The Heavenly Table’ which is (IMO) the perfect novel!
August 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
It’s criminal that Donald Ray Pollock isn’t read as widely as he should, and the fan in me yearns for a new book soon…it’s been far too long! But if you’ve not discovered him before, I’d highly recommend ‘The Heavenly Table’ which is (IMO) the perfect novel!
Sumer Read #1
The Heavenly Table by Donald Ray Pollock
5.1/5
Video review coming soon
The Heavenly Table by Donald Ray Pollock
5.1/5
Video review coming soon
June 29, 2026 at 9:57 AM
Sumer Read #1
The Heavenly Table by Donald Ray Pollock
5.1/5
Video review coming soon
The Heavenly Table by Donald Ray Pollock
5.1/5
Video review coming soon
1/2 through The Heavenly Table
Can't put it down
Like The Devil All the Time this is perfect Southern Gothic filth, murder sprees, bank robbing, venereal diseases, outhouse managers with horse cocks, every one working their bones for food, every page is nihilistic, sad, and disgusting.
Can't put it down
Like The Devil All the Time this is perfect Southern Gothic filth, murder sprees, bank robbing, venereal diseases, outhouse managers with horse cocks, every one working their bones for food, every page is nihilistic, sad, and disgusting.
June 28, 2026 at 2:59 AM
1/2 through The Heavenly Table
Can't put it down
Like The Devil All the Time this is perfect Southern Gothic filth, murder sprees, bank robbing, venereal diseases, outhouse managers with horse cocks, every one working their bones for food, every page is nihilistic, sad, and disgusting.
Can't put it down
Like The Devil All the Time this is perfect Southern Gothic filth, murder sprees, bank robbing, venereal diseases, outhouse managers with horse cocks, every one working their bones for food, every page is nihilistic, sad, and disgusting.
Book of the New Sun Trailer
YouTube video by The RustMonster
www.youtube.com
June 27, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Big if true
June 27, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Big if true
Can we start a petition to get Felix Biederman to shut the fuck up?
Dude has 0 insight and out Jordan Peterson in the Kermit the Frog voice.
Dude has 0 insight and out Jordan Peterson in the Kermit the Frog voice.
June 25, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Can we start a petition to get Felix Biederman to shut the fuck up?
Dude has 0 insight and out Jordan Peterson in the Kermit the Frog voice.
Dude has 0 insight and out Jordan Peterson in the Kermit the Frog voice.