Ep 162 - A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving

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

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

We are doomed to remember a podcast about a book about a boy with a wrecked voice. John Irving's seminal bildungsroman A Prayer for Owen Meany weaves together themes of American disillusionment and religious destiny into a fable about little Owen, who changed the world of everyone that knew him.

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0:00.0	This is a headgun podcast.
0:06.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told
0:10.3	tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:16.5	Plus these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	This is the funniest thing in the whole world is when you say, did you see this funny
0:46.2	picture on the internet and then you describe what the picture looked like?
0:49.1	Well, that sounds a great way to start the show.
0:51.4	Welcome to Overdo.
0:52.4	This is a podcast about the books that you've been meaning to read.
0:54.5	We're going to get to your stuff that you wrote us.
0:57.9	First, my name is Craig and Andrew has something to tell me.
1:00.5	And my name is Andrew and that's not what I had to tell you.
1:04.3	Somebody tweeted once, oh, look, I found this jerk who's always being a jerk to me on
1:08.7	Twitter and it was just a picture of an egg.
1:11.5	Okay.
1:12.5	It's like one of those eggs on Twitter.
1:15.0	Twitter eggs.
1:16.0	Yeah.
1:17.0	I bet you were thinking that was going to be funnier.
1:20.4	I know.
1:22.4	I find I can see.
1:26.5	I've known you long enough to be able to see in my brain you laughing at that.
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