246: The Shmoop Index

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2015

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

This episode is all about assigned reading from our school days. Stuff we loved and, more importantly, stuff we hated. Does Jason hate all French literature, or just Emma Bovary? Whose teachers assigned Ursula LeGuin and Kurt Vonnegut? And will Charles Dickens tear our friendly group of podcasters apart? Be sure to do the reading—there might be a quiz tomorrow.

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0:24.7	The incomparable, number 246, May 2015.
0:32.8	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:34.8	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:35.9	In this episode, we're going to be talking about not one particular work, but the phenomenon of being assigned reading for class.
0:45.1	Things we liked, things we really didn't like.
0:48.2	Books that traumatized us, perhaps.
0:50.7	The entire story of having reading assigned to you and reading it because you must instead of
0:56.9	because you want to.
0:58.7	Joining me on this adventure, I hope they did the reading.
1:02.5	We had to.
1:04.5	At some point.
1:06.3	David Lour is here.
1:07.5	Hello.
1:08.4	Hello.
1:09.9	Erica Ensign is also out there. Hello. Yeah, but I did the reading. Yeah, I'm good. Good. I'm glad. And from a far off land, actually closer than usual. It's Andy and Ico. Hi, Andy. Erica, do you have your past me your monarch notes? I didn't read it. Come on. Give me your lunch money, dude. We'll talk.
1:28.6	So a signed reading. The premise here is, obviously, you get a signed reading in class, and there's the books that you love, but, you know, there are also the books that you hate that drove you up a wall.
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