Ep 179 - 1Q84, by Haruki Murakami
Overdue
Headgum
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2016
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
It's alternate universes, murderous plots, and ghostwritten novels all the way down this week—1Q84 is Andrew's first Haruki Murakami novel, and there's a lot of good stuff here even if the book could stand to shed a couple hundred pages.
Come for the book talk, stick around for references to Highlights For Children, the Tostitos Bowl, and the usual nonsense.
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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 | Whoa, I'm not going to have a ton of quotes. |
| 0:44.0 | It's one of those books where I highlight so many things that- |
| 0:46.0 | Oh man. |
| 0:47.0 | That's always tough. |
| 0:49.0 | That's always tough. |
| 0:50.0 | That's going to be needle in a haystack even among my highlights to find the exact stuff. |
| 0:53.0 | Even among your highlights magazine? |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah, highlights for children. |
| 0:56.0 | I made highlights for children joke over vacation and Susanna didn't understand. |
| 1:03.0 | Like, I think she got the joke. |
| 1:05.0 | She just didn't understand why I had made highlights for children joke. |
| 1:12.0 | That's a sign of a healthy marriage, I think. |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:15.0 | I don't know why you did that. |
| 1:17.0 | But I respect your right to do it. |
| 1:23.0 | I'm going to overdo this podcast about the books that you've been meaning to read. |
| 1:26.0 | My name is Craig. |
| 1:27.0 | My name is Andrew. |
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