Ep 276 - The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
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4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2017
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Markus Zusak's breakthrough novel The Book Thief is the story of a young girl in 1940s Germany told by Death itself. It is equal parts heartening and heartbreaking in its depiction of people just trying to live, and it doesn't shy away from showing how "just trying to live" can create a slippery moral slope.
Talking points include Star Wars "spoilers," other books that Death should narrate, the power of literature, and Oscar-bait WW2 stories.
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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 | I can't believe Luke and Leia finally hooked up in the new Star Wars movie. |
| 0:46.6 | And Chewie just sat there and watched. |
| 0:49.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:50.1 | He didn't do anything. |
| 0:51.1 | He really about it. |
| 0:52.1 | Game of Thrones has really changed what is acceptable and not acceptable in a pop culture |
| 0:57.8 | mass market product. |
| 0:59.1 | They also didn't really explain it. |
| 1:01.0 | They just told us there was like a big slide that showed up and said, this is in the |
| 1:04.3 | books. |
| 1:05.3 | I mean, yeah, as an as an opening scene, also I felt like it was a little bit of whiplash |
| 1:10.0 | from the way that the Force Awakens ended. |
| 1:12.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:13.9 | Like where did Ray go? |
| 1:15.4 | Why? |
| 1:16.4 | I liked it. |
| 1:17.4 | Like I think the nudity was really tasteful, but it just, you know, it just I thought it |
| 1:22.2 | could have used another another editing past. |
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