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Hello and welcome to Book Cheat, the Book Club podcast where I've read the book so you don't have to. My name is Dave Warnikey, and on each episode of this show, we look at one of the classics, and joining me to look at such a classic this week. It's Irvi Majumda. It's Cameron James. Hello. Hey. Hello. Thank you for having us on book cheats. It's a real pleasure to have you. Thank you so much.

How's it going in the reading department? Irvi just off of Mark, I don't want to throw you under the bus. You just say you haven't read a book in a while. In so long, but I did do literature at uni. Oh, there you go. Yeah, so I feel like a massive failure. No, that means you ticked off the classics early. Yeah. You've got like probably enough that you can talk about if you need to,

but then now you don't have to worry about it for the rest of my life. For the rest of my life, I never have to read again. I did, I was like a big like canon girl. Like I love the canon. But I didn't actually read that much. Okay. Do you think you'll ever read again? And like, do you see a world where you one day decide to pick up a book and get back into it? Yes. Or is it done? No, I would love that. I feel like everything. So like about like, I feel like sometimes I'm like looking up the statistics on like what it does to your brain. You know, like when you're just like using it. It's like, I don't need to to know that it's good for you it's like it just is good for you and you can just do it for fun like I don't need like stats on that um but yeah I the last book I read okay I read a book like last year um the first time in like probably five years but it was really good called the big Swiss. Have you read it? No, the Big Swiss tells us about it. It's about this. It's really funny.

It's like,

it's like,

it's like,

dark comedy about, but it was really good called The Big Swiss. Have you read it? No, The Big Swiss tell us about it.

It's really funny.

It's like, it's like kind of like dark comedy about this like woman who lives in her house which is like infested with bees.

And she's like a she like transcribes for work and her boss is like a sex sex therapist.

And then she like falls in love with the woman that he's like um like like i guess like her page his patient um so yeah it's kind of like this like love story but also um

yeah um yeah cool the big swiss yeah i think that's good that you do see i also went a big period

of time without reading as well at some point.

And I was like a big reader.

And then I, when I started comedy,

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