166: I Assume Everyone is Awful

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2013

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Awful people can make great art. Nice people can write bad books. Can you separate the creator from the art? We struggle with Orson Scott Card and his (rightfully) classic novel “Ender’s Game” and go on to list other writers and series who we’ve hand to break up with. To make things not entirely disappointing, we also talk about authors and series that have never let us down.

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0:00.0	The incomparable number 166, November 2013.
0:09.5	Welcome back to The Incomparable podcast. I'm your host, Jason Snell, and I hope we haven't
0:14.5	disappointed you. Have you said to yourself, you know, about 160 episodes of The Incomparable,
0:19.3	I stopped listening after like 100 because it just, you know, it didn't work for me anymore.
0:25.6	Well, I'm glad you somehow tuned into this episode after we disappointed you because that is the topic of this episode.
0:34.5	Disappointments, I think most particularly in books.
0:37.2	We're going to be talking about authors
0:38.7	and series that have disappointed us in some way, that have made us say, yeah, I'm going to walk away,
0:46.1	and why we would say those things. And I have a topical reference that I'm going to drop
0:51.6	that's the other part of this subject. But before we get
0:54.6	there, I'm going to introduce my panel of lovely people who are not bitter at all and have no
0:59.1	grievances to air tonight. Okay, maybe a few. First off, the sunshine of my life, Mr. Happy himself,
1:08.2	it's Scott McNulty. Hi, Scott. hello, Jason. Well, man, I'm flying high
1:14.8	already. I feel uncomfortable all of a sudden. Okay, fair enough. Fair enough. Dan Morin is also
1:20.9	here. Dan Morin is like my security blanket. He's on every podcast so that I know it's a podcast. Hi,
1:26.0	Dan. I'm the Linus of this, I guess.
1:29.6	No, you're not Linus.
1:30.4	I'm the Linus.
1:31.3	You're the blanket.
1:33.3	That's her, get it right, Dan.
1:34.4	It's so confusing.
1:35.5	I'm more of a wet blanket.
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