Ep 008 - Dune, by Frank Herbert

Overdue

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2013

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Good science fiction uses fantastical characters, locations, and technology to comment intelligently on problems that we face in the real world, but the best science fiction can also do this in a suspenseful, entertaining, adventuresome way. Frank Herbert's Dune gets most of the way there, but Andrew can't help but wish he had read it for the first time as a teenager instead of an adult.

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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	So, hey, and welcome to Overdo. This is a podcast about the books that you've been meaning to read. My name is Craig.
0:41.0	My name is Andrew.
0:43.0	And each week we take a book off of our shelves, be they digital or literal, and discuss it amongst each other, and for your ears as well.
0:53.0	Right?
0:54.0	Now, is an ebook a figurative book now?
0:57.0	No, the shelves are figurative. Sorry, the books are not figurative. The books are literal, I guess, either way.
1:05.0	They're literally books.
1:07.0	They're not physical manifestations of books. I mean, we can have a whole podcast where we talk about whether or not a book is a book. It's an ebook, I guess.
1:15.0	What? What is a book?
1:17.0	Let's start there. Let's start at the beginning.
1:19.0	Is a book the paper on which the words are printed or is a book the ideas that are printed on the paper?
1:27.0	Oh, in deep.
1:29.0	Yeah, just write a book about it. It's called our books books.
1:34.0	Books about books by books Alfred T. Books.
1:38.0	Is that, well, people are named Booker, right?
1:41.0	Yeah, like Booker T. Bookington.
1:45.0	Books cause me. Why is he a cause me? I don't know.
1:50.0	I don't know where to go with that.
1:53.0	No, I read the book. You read the book this week, right?
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