Ep 378 - The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy

Overdue

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

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The God of Small Things is about family, and loss, and India, and the caste system, and all of its disparate plot lines and character arcs come together in the end like a Seinfeld episode but with more tragedy.

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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	Hey everybody, what are you going to overdo?
0:43.1	It's a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read.
0:46.1	My name is Craig.
0:47.3	My name is Pumpkin Spice Andrew.
0:50.2	Not...uh...is it though?
0:53.5	It's September 13th, which means, hey, Greg, it's Pumpkin season.
0:58.9	I have between the Pumpkin Bagel that I had for breakfast this morning and the second
1:03.5	distinct Pumpkin beer that I'm drinking right now.
1:07.1	It's a second beer and also a second type of Pumpkin beer.
1:09.8	Okay.
1:10.8	Because I saw two kinds of Pumpkin beer that I wanted at the beer store and I couldn't
1:13.8	decide so I bought one.
1:15.6	I think I've drank a whole Pumpkin, eight or drank a whole Pumpkin today.
1:20.6	Even...how do they put seeds in the beer?
1:24.7	I know, I don't think so.
1:25.7	I'm just saying, like, I've had a lot of Pumpkin.
1:27.9	I'm more Pumpkin than man.
1:29.5	Oh, okay.
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