Ep 446 - The Buried Giant, by Kazuo Ishiguro
Overdue
Headgum
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
The Buried Giant is a sort of inversion of a typical fantasy novel - instead of a young person setting out to change the world, we get some aging heroes at the end of the Arthurian era trying to decide how everything is going to wind down.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgun podcast. |
| 0:06.2 | While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told |
| 0:10.5 | tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary. |
| 0:16.3 | Plus these are books you should have read by now. |
| 0:42.9 | I'm sure you've been reading this book. |
| 0:52.9 | That's my first joke that I wrote down here. |
| 0:58.2 | We could cut that if you want. |
| 1:01.7 | I also wrote a giant waste of time and our buddy Kaz. |
| 1:07.3 | You are pre-judging the book a little bit with that second one. |
| 1:10.9 | I was trying to make a joke. |
| 1:13.1 | I was really the joke was Andrew, is it a giant waste of time? |
| 1:17.6 | I would say no. |
| 1:19.8 | I would say no, you're burying the lead. |
| 1:23.8 | I didn't workshop these with you at a time. |
| 1:27.3 | I apologize. |
| 1:28.3 | Welcome to our show where we read a book each week and the other person tells the other person |
| 1:34.2 | about it. |
| 1:37.0 | We never read the book before. |
| 1:38.1 | It's usually how it goes and we're going to talk about what happens in the book and |
| 1:41.7 | why you may or may not have heard about it. |
| 1:45.3 | Andrew, a book did you read this week? |
| 1:47.0 | I read as you probably have guessed from our very tight and suggestive introductory sequence. |
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