Ep 187 - A Walk to Remember, by Nicholas Sparks (w/ the Unfriendly Black Hotties)
Overdue
Headgum
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2016
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes an author’s prose is so distracting in so many ways that it totally derails their stories—such is the case with Nicholas Sparks’ A Walk to Remember. Sparks always tells but rarely shows. He gives us one- or two-word descriptions that are meant to serve as “characterization,” but those characters don’t always act the way Sparks tells us they act. And people talk to each other not like human beings, but like aliens in human skin-suits.
This week, Unfriendly Black Hotties co-hosts Christina and Kamille help us break down Sparks’ writing and the man himself, and we try to figure out the stuff in Sparks’ work that makes his books bestsellers. (Note the Explicit tag this week, for some light swearing and Sexual Discussions.)
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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 | Hello everybody and welcome to Overdo. |
| 0:40.5 | This is a podcast about the books that you have been meaning to read. |
| 0:44.4 | My name is Craig. |
| 0:45.4 | My name is Andrew. |
| 0:46.4 | And we have two special guests and usually I would just let them introduce themselves |
| 0:50.8 | without any sort of like rhythmic introduction and I would look dumb for just tossing it |
| 0:56.9 | to them. |
| 0:57.9 | But now I look dumb for talking too long. |
| 0:59.6 | So who else is on the podcast with us in no particular order? |
| 1:04.9 | Introduce yourselves. |
| 1:07.0 | In no particular order. |
| 1:09.4 | I am Camille. |
| 1:10.4 | I am Christina. |
| 1:13.0 | And together we got the unfriendly black hobby. |
| 1:15.5 | So that you guys have a podcast that Andrew and I are both fans of what is the elevator |
| 1:20.4 | pitch for this podcast that you have? |
| 1:23.6 | Oh, oh, I said it bad. |
| 1:26.3 | You're like, I didn't know elevator pitch was a bad phrase. |
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