225: A Very Different Idea of Fun

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2014

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

It’s your usual detective story, with a guy obsessed with a mystery, a femme fatale, and… an asteroid that’s about to kill most of the living things on the earth? That’s the premise for “The Last Policeman” by Ben Winters. We liked the book (and its two sequels) quite a lot, though that comes with a big caveat based on what your definition of “fun” is, and apparently if you’re a soulless monster or not. Plus: What are we reading?

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 225, December 2014.
0:09.0	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable Podcast.
0:13.0	I'm your host, Jason Snell, and we're here for an edition of our book club.
0:18.0	I would like to, first off, recognize that Scott McNulty is not here for the book
0:22.5	club, not because he didn't read the book and in fact like the book a lot and recommend it to many of us,
0:27.1	but because he's a good son and he has to help his mom move. And he's moving, he's like moving
0:33.2	his mom from one state to another or something right now. So, oh, good job, Scott.
0:38.2	Good job. We're sorry you're not here. But I have wonderful people here with me to talk about
0:43.3	this book in absence of Mr. McNulty. Erica An signs out there. Hello? I am here indeed.
0:50.3	Hello. In nice, well, that's almost like your Galaxy Quest, hello from last week.
0:55.2	Was it?
0:55.9	I don't remember.
0:58.6	Oh, were you on a Galaxy Quest podcast?
1:01.2	Yeah, I was.
1:02.6	Just repeat everything the computer says.
1:04.8	That's all you need to do.
1:05.8	Yep.
1:06.9	You heard Lisa Schmeisser, who's also here and has also read this book, I hope.
1:11.1	Hello.
1:11.4	Yes.
1:12.0	Hi, I've read the whole trilogy.
1:13.6	Look at that.
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