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I wonder how long I can do that for.

Book club, book club.

No, I got bored.

Hello, and welcome to Coolzone Media Book Club, your weekly book club that I host. My name is Marker Kiljoy, and I host the Coolzone Media Book Club, which is what I had already said. And every week, I read you different stories, and it's the only book club where you don't have to do the reading, because I do the reading for you. You might have other book clubs like that. Well, it wouldn't be

me doing the reading for you. Although, I do like reading. Anyway, okay, I've been on this kick

where I've been reading old stories written by radicals and I have got for you a story that I'm

excited about. It is written

by B. Traven. And if you've never heard of B. Traven, that's understandable. And if you have heard

of B. Traven, you might be excited. B. Traven was a really important Mexican pulp fiction writer.

He was writing in the 20s, 30s. I actually don't know when he stopped writing

because I don't have his whole biography in front of me. But if he's famous today, there's two old

movies based on his books. One is called The Death Ship, and that's less known. And then there's

the treasure of the Sierra Nevadas. And that movie was a big old hit before I or most of you were born. But the thing that is really

neat about B. Traven, and one day he's actually going to be a character on, I'm going to do

episodes about him at some point on cool people who did cool stuff. So I don't have all the

information right now. The thing is, is that no one knew who B. Traven was for so long.

Like, he would only meet people in darkened rooms in order to do interviews and stuff like that.

He was completely anonymous as this very popular pulp fiction writer in Mexico, and a lot of his

work was translating English, and, you of his work was translated in English,

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