Ep 019 - The Color Purple, by Alice Walker

Overdue

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

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2013

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

We're back from our hiatus, and to kick the rust off we're diving right into a thorny discussion about race, sexuality, and poverty with Alice Walker's The Color Purple.

Also, we have a brief discussion of the movie version of World War Z , our overdue book from a few weeks back.

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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	All right, so tell me about the movie World War Z.
0:39.0	I thought we were going to do that on the show.
0:42.0	I was trying to do a thing where I would just kind of start the show informally.
0:46.0	All right, well, okay, just, okay, do try again.
0:49.0	So tell me about the movie World War Z.
0:53.0	The thing about the movie World War Z is that it had nothing to do with the book
0:59.0	that that shares its name, like nothing.
1:02.0	Except, I mean, there were zombies.
1:04.0	Okay.
1:05.0	That was about it.
1:07.0	Was it good or was it bad?
1:10.0	Did that matter?
1:12.0	I gave it a B minus.
1:14.0	Too many gave it a C plus.
1:17.0	To whom did you give these grades?
1:19.0	Like, I just gave the movie a grade.
1:21.0	Was there a man at the end collecting slips of paper with your grades on?
1:27.0	There was a quiz.
1:28.0	No, I, we only, because I wasn't planning on going to see it,
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