Ep 028 - The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury

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

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2013

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Ray Bradbury once described his first novel, The Martian Chronicles, as a collection of short stories "pretending to be a novel." In fact, many of the Martian stories were published individually, and it wasn't until 1950 that Bradbury stitched them all together.

This patchwork storytelling made it hard for us to get a bead on Chronicles . Craig liked it, but we found it hard to discuss why without the benefit of a central character or singular narrative. That said, you can still join us for a lively talk about colonialism, space travel, Fearing the Bomb, and twerking (for some reason).

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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	Are you twerking right now? No, I'm like twerking with my head.
0:40.0	Is that a thing? Can you twerk with your head?
0:43.0	It depends on if twerking is about the motion itself or about the part of your body that you're doing it with.
0:53.0	Is it about the motion itself or is it about how you feel when you make that motion?
0:58.0	Twerking comes from the heart. You can only twerk if you believe you could twerk.
1:08.0	You have to have the spirit of the twerk in you.
1:14.0	Did you see that Disney movie where that elephant he doesn't think he can twerk and then he gets a magic feather and he's really good at twerking.
1:24.0	And then they take the feather away from the end and it turns out that he was really good at twerking all along.
1:30.0	Did you see that Disney movie where that lion cub's dad got killed by a bunch of twerking animals?
1:37.0	And then he didn't want to be king because he wasn't sure if he knew how to twerk.
1:42.0	And then he twerked all over his uncle and then he became the king of twerk rock.
1:47.0	And I like mine.
1:50.0	Okay, that's how riffing goes.
1:53.0	You say one and I say one and then you say you like yours better.
1:57.0	You're real good at comedy.
2:02.0	Welcome to overdue.
2:04.0	This is a podcast about the books you've been meeting to read. My name is Craig.
2:07.0	And my name is Andrew.
2:09.0	And we're not here to talk about twerking. We're here to talk about books.
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