Ep 310 - Mystic River, by Dennis Lehane

Overdue

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

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

You may remember Dennis Lehane's 2001 novel Mystic River from the award-winning 2003 film of the same name. What elevates this murder mystery from other crime procedurals is its attention to human detail, its exploration of our collective moral failings and how they intersect.

LISTENER BEWARE: We do spoil the heck out of the ending so that we can get into a conversation about youth violence and the American cultural conversation about guns. Unless you're just DYING to read it, we think you should press ahead and enjoy the episode. We even have fun talking about Mystic Pizza and Boston!

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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 took a nap today at 7.30 pm.
0:49.2	That's really, really close to when it just becomes going to bed.
0:53.0	I don't know if I'm ever going to sleep again.
0:55.7	Welcome to Overdoot.
0:56.7	It's a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read.
0:58.5	My name is Craig.
0:59.5	My name's Andrew and did you have an additional thing you wanted to talk about?
1:04.7	Did you have some skewed, observational humor about your nap that you're going to talk
1:10.3	about?
1:11.3	It's just that you took a nap.
1:12.6	Just that I don't know what time zone I'm in for this particular podcast.
1:19.4	If I slip into a different time zone midway through.
1:22.7	It's because you took a bad nap.
1:24.1	It's because I took a bad nap.
1:25.9	One of those bad naps.
1:28.4	Those naps that feel like sleep, but then you stop them or like you way or you wake
1:33.5	up to see the worst kind of nap.
1:35.5	Here's what the worst kind of nap.
	...

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