Ep 070 - Girl With a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier

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

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2014

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week's book, Tracy Chevalier's Girl With a Pearl Earring, is historical fiction that purports to tell the story of the painting of the same name. If that's not a good elevator pitch for a book, we haven't heard one.

Join us for a discussion of art and artists, historically accurate historical fiction, and what happens when you take the sex scenes out of romance novels. We also kick the show off with a discussion of Amazon's new Kindle Unlimited and its possibly negative effects on self-published authors—this CNet article describes the issue in more detail.

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0:00.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told tale,
0:05.1	they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:10.4	Plus, these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.8	While passing through the living room, I saw a commercial for the teaser trailer for the
0:44.9	50 Shades of Grey movie. The teaser trailer is distinct from the regular trailer, right?
0:53.6	Yeah, this is just a trailer for the trailer.
0:56.9	Okay, so this is a commercial for the trailer for the trailer.
1:02.7	I guess this garbage movie.
1:05.2	Yeah.
1:10.0	Yes, that's exactly what I saw. There was a woman moaning,
1:13.2	but there was no answer to the book.
1:16.7	You didn't see her. She was just moaning. You just hear it.
1:20.8	Maybe she's hurt.
1:21.6	Maybe. Maybe she likes to be hurt.
1:25.2	Oh, yeah, maybe it's good kind of hurt.
1:27.4	I mean, if you're not kind of hurt, I don't.
1:30.2	Oh, getting lost.
1:34.8	Welcome to Overdo.
1:36.8	This is a podcast about the books that you've been meaning to read. My name is Craig.
1:40.9	My name is Andrew.
1:42.0	And sometimes we like to talk about bad books.
1:48.0	Yeah, like 50 Shades of Grey.
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