128: Bureaucracy Is Her Superpower

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2013

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Cut off your thumb and send it to a friend just to see what grows! In this episode of our Book Club, we talk about Daniel O’Malley’s modern supernatural fantasy novel, “The Rook.” (We liked it a lot!) It’s sort of about a supernatural version of Britain’s MI-5, written by an American-educated Australian civil servant. Also: What are Scott, Dan, and Jason reading?

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 128, February 2013.
0:12.0	Welcome back to The Incomparable podcast.
0:14.0	I'm your host, Jason Snell, and I'm joined by two members of our book club.
0:18.2	The esteemed Dan Moran joins us. Hi, Dan. Hi, Jason. It's nice to be esteemed.
0:24.5	And thank you for sitting in for me on our special live Mac World Expo episode about Aaron Sorkin.
0:30.3	I didn't get to say any of my things that I wanted to say about how I thought that he was,
0:35.0	you know, kind of losing it in his last season of the West Wing before they removed him
0:39.2	probably because of the mushrooms but we're just
0:41.2	going to let that go bygones be bygones
0:43.2	to save it for the Aaron Sarkin Part 2
0:45.0	exactly when John Syracuse
0:47.2	will list all of the things that
0:49.3	he wishes he could have said if he had been
0:51.4	in San Francisco but he doesn't travel
0:52.9	he's a hermit's true it in San Francisco, but he doesn't travel. He's a hermit.
0:54.3	It's true. It's true. Yeah. So, but thank you for taking over. Sure. My pleasure for that. I
0:58.9	appreciate that very much. It's nice when we pick a topic and I'm, I've got a whole plan. And then I say,
1:03.4	Dan, you do it instead. And I say, sure. Sucker. Also joining me for this book club is Scott McNulty, of course, because Scott reads every book.
1:14.3	I am contractually obligated to read every book in existence.
1:17.4	That's the rule.
1:19.2	So this book, this book had the, we're going to be talking about The Rook by Daniel O'Malley.
1:29.8	And double whammy of recommendations.
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