Ep 234 - The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
Overdue
Headgum
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2017
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Craig’s on his long-delayed honeymoon this week, so Andrew’s wife and other best friend Suzannah is filling in this week to tell you all about Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo.
Did you know that Dumas has upwards of 40 mistresses? Did you know that this book was published in 18 pieces over the course of a couple of years, and that it’s over 1,000 pages long? Did you know that someone actually helped write parts of many of Dumas’ books and never got any official credit for it? Did you know that the Count himself is a Jigsaw-esque murderous vengeance machine? All this and more on this week’s Overdue!
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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 | Last week I was going to use a couple weeks ago about using the Borat thing as my opener |
| 0:45.8 | and just asking you how many times I would be allowed to make the Borat joke. |
| 0:50.4 | Like we're not talking about me or the fact that I'm your wife, so I feel like you would |
| 0:55.1 | have to do some gymnastics to get to that. |
| 1:01.1 | Maybe I don't know if I agree entirely. |
| 1:05.6 | You don't have to let me because I did it. |
| 1:07.3 | I think three is more than three is three is incredibly generous. |
| 1:10.3 | Three is a lot. |
| 1:11.3 | I have an open giving heart. |
| 1:15.1 | Well everybody welcome to overdue. |
| 1:17.0 | This is a podcast about the books that you've been meeting to read. |
| 1:19.7 | My name is Andrew. |
| 1:20.7 | My name is Craig. |
| 1:21.7 | That's not your name. |
| 1:22.7 | My name is Susanna. |
| 1:24.1 | And you're my wife. |
| 1:25.7 | I've been I'm just getting out of the way right now. |
| 1:29.4 | So this week we talked last week about where Craig is right now and he is on his home. |
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