155: The Cat Who Listened to Podcasts

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2013

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

A boy with no name travels to the end of the lane and discovers how a pond can be an ocean in Neil Gaiman’s brief and wonderful novel “The Ocean at the End of the Lane.” Also Dan explains Jason’s perfect vacation, there’s lots of talk about cats, why David has issues with Old Yeller, and we talk about other Neil Gaiman works that we like.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 155, August 2013.
0:11.0	Welcome back to The Incomparable. I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:16.0	We're here in this installment to talk about Neil Gaiman, most specifically his latest novel,
0:23.3	The Ocean at the End of the Lane.
0:24.8	We might also talk a little bit about other Neil Gaiman that we have read and thought of,
0:28.7	but basically we're going to focus on the ocean at the end of the lane.
0:31.7	And joining me in this edition of our book club to talk about it, I have two lovely guests.
0:36.3	Dan Moran is here here as he always is.
0:38.8	Hello. I'm playing
0:41.1	the part. I know I'm playing his part
0:43.4	tonight. Okay. Thank you. Thank you.
0:45.4	I will not speak much. You can tell me what to read
0:47.6	later. And
0:49.1	also David Lora is here. Hi
0:51.4	again. Hi. You're back.
0:53.7	Have I been here before? Let me sit next to this pond and
0:57.9	think about that. Oh, that's a book reference that you did there. Look at you. I don't get it.
1:04.7	So the ocean at the end of the lane, 192 page. I don't know the backstory here. I don't know if,
1:10.3	well, actually, I did read
1:11.4	that he intended this originally
1:12.9	to be a short story.
1:14.6	And then it kind of got out of hand.
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