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🗓️ 8 April 2013
⏱️ 45 minutes
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What makes a good ghost story? If you said creepy children, gothic architecture, and unreliable narrators, then Henry James has you covered The Turn of the Screw.
This week Andrew mangles words, Craig gets lost in James' Victorian prose, and the two solve the mystery surrounding the ghosts of Bly.
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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 Overdo, a podcast about the books that you've been meaning to read. |
0:39.0 | My name is Craig. |
0:41.0 | My name is Andrew. |
0:42.0 | And every week we take a book that either myself or Andrew has read and we talk about it, |
0:48.0 | regardless of whether or not you, the listener, have read it. |
0:51.0 | Maybe you have, maybe you plan on it. |
0:53.0 | We'll see how it goes. |
0:54.0 | We don't really care. |
0:55.0 | No. |
0:56.0 | Whether you've read it or not. |
0:57.0 | Well, I think the thing that has yet to happen, which I would love to happen, |
1:01.0 | if we were in a situation that was favorable to it, is if somebody had read these books |
1:07.0 | and they were like, emailing us and giving us feedback, that might be nice. |
1:12.0 | Yeah, you mean emailing us at overdue pod at gmail.com? |
1:16.0 | Yeah, we can talk about that later. |
1:17.0 | I've gotten some really lovely in-person feedback from some people I know who are listening, |
1:22.0 | but there are plenty of people I don't know who are listening or people that I'm not sure if they are listening. |
1:26.0 | And I would love to just hear from them. |
1:28.0 | But we can talk about that. |
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