109: Evil, Surfing Ronald McDonald

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2012

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Soon to be a major motion picture you probably shouldn’t see, David Mitchell’s 2004 novel “Cloud Atlas” is in our sights. This novel consists of six separate stories set in different genres and timeframes from the 1850s to a post-apocalyptic future, and yet they’re all interlinked. Somehow. It’s fun, weird, and challenging, but what does it all mean? Read it now before every character in it becomes Tom Hanks and Halle Berry.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable Podcast, number 109, September 2012.
0:14.3	Welcome back to The Incomparable Podcast.
0:16.2	I'm Jason Snell, your host, and I'm convening a very strange episode of our book club, because many of our
0:22.5	usual book club participants are not here. Glenn Fleischman, didn't read the book.
0:29.1	Glenn.
0:30.1	Dan Moran.
0:32.0	Didn't read the book.
0:34.2	Dan.
0:35.0	So Randy Caldwell, no.
0:36.5	John Syracusa, a bit of a slow reader, John Syracusa.
0:40.2	Here's who read the book.
0:42.2	Of course, Scott McNulty read the book because he suggested the book.
0:46.0	And we do, well, apparently not.
0:48.9	I was going to say we do what Scott says, but apparently I do what Scott says.
0:51.9	So I read this book.
0:53.9	Scott, thank you for being here.
0:56.3	Well, Jason, thank you for doing my bidding once again. Yep. That's I obey. And strangely enough,
1:03.2	because we thought him actually illiterate, Steve Lutz also read the book. Hi, Steve. Hello there.
1:10.7	How many books do you read usually? Many? Are you an avid reader that we just, and you just downplay it?
1:18.5	This makes one. This is the first book you've read. Yeah, it was a kind of a rough starter, but no, no, I read when I get the chance, but there's usually...
1:30.7	I usually find myself with so much media at my fingertips and so many other options to fill my time
1:36.9	that I tend to not do so much reading unless I find myself, say, in a restaurant by myself
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