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🗓️ 11 March 2013
⏱️ 50 minutes
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What book could possible be more overdue for a read than Beowulf, one of the oldest extant works of Anglo-Saxon literature?
Join us as we revel in Beowulf's heroic deeds, discuss the finer points of oral tradition, and wonder just who infused this Old English tale with a triple-shot of Christianity.
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0:00.0 | While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well told tale, |
0:05.0 | they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary. |
0:10.0 | Plus, these are books you should have read by now. |
0:30.0 | Welcome to Over Do. It's a podcast about the books that you've been meeting to read. My name is Craig. |
0:39.0 | My name is Andrew. And each week, if this is the first time you're joining us, |
0:44.0 | each week Andrew or myself will have taken a book off our bookshelves or out of the digital ether book |
0:50.0 | we've been meeting to read and we will share it with the other party and share it with you. |
0:55.0 | And yeah, we're not trying to be experts, but we've got a lot of stuff we want to read. |
1:00.0 | And we figured this is the best way to get through it. |
1:04.0 | It's encouraging reading through peer pressure, which is how I get pretty much everything done in my life that I get done. |
1:12.0 | Yeah, and you would think that that would have motivated me a lot in high school. |
1:16.0 | But as we found out in an earlier episode and as we'll find out today, |
1:19.0 | high school is not a good motivating factor for me to read. That kind of peer pressure. |
1:23.0 | No, there's peer pressure for you to be too cool for reading. |
1:27.0 | That's a good point. And a good class clown. |
1:29.0 | Yeah. So what is this? Is this week five Andrew? |
1:32.0 | Yes. |
1:33.0 | Yes. |
1:34.0 | Yes. |
1:35.0 | Yeah. So I want to thank everybody who's been tuning in thus far and to welcome people who might be tuning in for the first time. |
1:41.0 | And for what about the people who haven't tuned in yet? What do we have to say for that? |
1:45.0 | We have to say thank you for coming to the past and listening. |
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