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Overdue

Ep 128 - Then We Came To The End, by Joshua Ferris

Overdue

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

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2015

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

If you've ever worked in an office, at least a passage or two in Joshua Ferris' Then We Came To The End is going to resonate with you. Few books so accurately capture the extremely important, unimportant minutiae of office life.
Join us for our office ruminations, some fall follies, and some email-related observations. It's just as fun as it sounds!

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0:00.0

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

0:05.2

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

Do you think maybe that falls way of combat and Christmas creep?

0:42.0

It's like to summer.

0:45.0

Fall can't happen anymore.

0:46.6

Like, falls not a thing.

0:49.0

No, it isn't anymore.

0:51.0

Summer to last till like the end of September.

0:54.0

Basically like we like summer so much.

0:57.0

And winter like Christmas starts creeping in like before Halloween has even happened.

1:03.0

So that gives fall like three weeks to do.

1:07.0

It's the at this point fall is down to like a day.

1:11.0

All the leaves fall off the trees and then it's Christmas time.

1:14.0

Yeah.

1:16.0

Pretty much.

1:17.0

Yeah, what would you call it fall?

1:21.0

Fall dies be a liturative diet fall.

1:24.0

Die.

1:26.0

Oh, you mean you don't mean the cons you don't mean like the super short fall you mean fall creep.

1:33.0

Yeah.

1:35.0

What could I overdo this is a podcast about the books that you've been meaning to read my name is Craig.

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