Ep 288 - The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger

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

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🗓️ 5 March 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Audrey Niffenegger's novel The Time Traveler's Wife is equal parts romance and sci-fi. It's a love story about the limits of free will and the power of destiny. It is also a way hornier book than we gave it credit for.

Talking points include James Cameron's avatar, time-travelling hi-jinks, and chrono-impairment as a metaphor for absence, loss, and the gravitational pull of love.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, Craig here.
0:02.0	At around the 50 or 51 minute mark, we hit a truly wild section of the Time Traveler's
0:08.0	wife that is sexually explicit in nature.
0:11.2	So just in case you're sharing this podcast with anyone, maybe give it a listen beforehand
0:16.2	before you put it on speaker.
0:18.2	Thanks and enjoy the show.
0:22.3	This is a headgun podcast.
0:26.1	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told
0:30.4	tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:36.6	Plus, these are books you should have read by now.
0:56.1	Hey everybody, welcome to Overdoots Podcast with Books.
1:06.0	You've been meeting to read.
1:07.1	My name is Craig.
1:08.1	My name is Andrew and Craig is the Oscar toime again.
1:11.3	It is.
1:12.3	And for the ninth year in a row, James Cameron's Avatar has walked away with best picture.
1:16.7	You know, he said he was going to make more of those, but when they kept giving it best
1:20.4	picture, he just decided.
1:21.8	And it's that that rule changed where they said, you know, it's not just going to be
1:25.7	the pictures that came out this year anymore.
1:27.4	It's going to be all movies in all across all the years of all time.
1:33.1	Yeah.
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