Time To Get Cracked.
GRAHAM Cracked.
In the beginning…there was…the Crackening…
But this isn’t exactly the beginning, now is it? I started my blog “On A Grahampage” in 2006, and killed it in 2016. I started the “Brother Trucker Book Club” in 2019 and rebranded it in 2021 as “The Radcracker Podcast.” I had some accidental success on YouTube, kind of out of nowhere, under my own name. Now here I am, trying something else.
Okay but for serious, what *is* cracking?
Cracking is where I bust open my mind and throw the contents at you.
I’ve been publishing free crap online for years. Now it’s time to A) get spicy, and B) get paid. And I’m going to do it the way that I always have, by reviewing books and exposing the masses to how my brain works.
One of my friends is always saying I’m the king of one-liners. I disagree, but I can hold my own, I suppose. Guess we’ll see, as I respond to fiction and non-fiction in the only way I know how: as an insightful wiseass who enjoys making people think and laugh.
You’re here to become well-read.
Almost all of the readers I meet are online. I know very few of them IRL. I want to push literacy for leisure. I want people to consume books in the quantities that I do. I want them to always be reading something, and in order for them to do that, they have to ENJOY it.
Why do I enjoy it? Because I enjoy what I learn, I enjoy having my imagination refueled, I enjoy disproving bad arguments with facts that I can source. We are on the only animals on earth that pass knowledge down from one generation to the next based on how carefully we scribble on hard surfaces. If we don’t make good use of those scribbles, we suck.
You’re not here to suck, you’re here to level up. You’re here to Get Cracked.
You don’t have to read everything I review.
And if you try to, you’ll go nuts.
I would much rather you read my reviews, get a general idea of I why I forge my way through year after year of books, and pick something else that YOU like.
Millions of books are published every twelve months. I’ve read 1700 in my lifetime. I won’t get to them all. I’m just going after the ones I think I’ll like. You might overtake me. Fine. Try it. I dare you.
Here’s a picture of me in high school
This guy had visible abs, but he was also a complete tard. Point and laugh.
Let’s freaking ride.
One last thing: audiobooks absolutely count as reading. Don’t waste anybody’s time by arguing against this correct position.