Ep 110 - Looking for Alaska, by John Green

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

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🗓️ 27 April 2015

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

John Green's Looking for Alaska is another young adult coming-of-age novel in a long tradition of young adult coming-of-age novels. A young man goes away to school and becomes close with a small group of friends. They smoke, they drink, they have sexual experiences, they lose, they mourn.

It's nothing that hasn't been done, but Green's light tone and deeper thematic questions make Alaska worth reading whether you're still a young adult or not. Join us for more thoughts on this book, as well as the great Central Air Conditioning vs. Dishwasher debate of 2015.

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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.
0:30.7	Okay, Andrew, welcome to Overdoot. This is a podcast about the books you've been
0:39.3	meaning to read. My name is Craig. My name is Andrew. Like I said, your name is Andrew. Are you on...
0:45.4	Breaking, breaking, breaking, spoiler alert. Are you on team dishwasher or team
0:51.2	central air? Team central air conditioning. Okay, now this is not which one is better. This is
0:58.4	this is a question that arose on my Twitter, the hippest part of the internet.
1:04.2	Craig's Twitter is the best place to go for baseball, tweets, and like out of context like emotional
1:11.6	venting. Yeah. So so Lauren Eyre looking for a new apartment. And because we just love leaks so much,
1:21.3	we just can't bear to part with the one we're in right now. You're gonna move to a place with more
1:25.6	leaks. So we are looking for a new apartment. And we saw one today that was really nice.
1:31.4	It had a lot of stuff that we wanted, et cetera, et cetera. Get to the end of the little mini
1:35.6	tour and I go, oh, this place doesn't have central air. Does it? Okay, the woman who's currently
1:40.6	renting is like, yeah, but I've got three window units. It does, it does a job just fine, right?
1:46.8	Okay. We left the place and can know this is pretty good. And then Lauren realized there was no
1:53.6	dishwasher and all of a sudden I was livid. Like I had not planned my response to that news.
2:01.1	I was like, there was no dishwasher and no central air conditioning. That's what I'm saying.
2:05.9	What do you? What's the choice? The choices go look for another part of the choice.
2:10.8	All the stuff. You know, that place up because no one should live there. But then it prompted
2:16.4	the thought experiment of like, which could you live without? Or what do you have to live with?
2:21.2	Lay out. Let me lay out the team central air conditioning argument for you. Okay.
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