While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told tale,

they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.

Plus, these are books you should have read by now.

Welcome to Over-Due Podcast, a podcast about the books that you've been meaning to read.

I've never called it Over-Due Podcast in my life. My name is Craig.

My name is Andrew. This is Over-Due Podcast, a podcast.

Welcome to our podcast. Oh god. This is, we're off to a good start. We need to enlist our listeners

for some help. I think. What do you think Andrew? Help us.

What are we? Okay. We'll go to our list. But first, what book did you read this week?

I read A Farewell to Arn was by Ernest Hemingway.

All right. Enough about that. I want to talk about last week's book, Zen and the Art of

Motorcycle Maintenance. Because we didn't talk about it enough. No, we didn't. It wasn't hard enough.

We got a bunch of nice tweets about the episode, including some from Tony and Lee and a couple

other folks. Mike, a new listener wrote in saying that he started listening because a good friend of

ours, Eric pointed him to the show months ago and he said, perhaps appropriately, I've been meaning

to start listening since then. Which I think is funny. Get it? Because the... All right, thanks, Andrew.

No, it's hilarious. Oh, man.

Please, better over email, I guess. Mike had been reading the book for a good long time and he

said that he kind of agreed with my general feelings on the thing. What he did say was he hadn't

really considered whether or not the split between the narrator and the ghost man, Fedress,

was kind of an echo of the whole philosophical split debate that was raging throughout the book.

And that kind of the upsetting or unsatisfying ending to the book is kind of a direct result of

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