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Ep 504 - The First Fifteen Lives of Henry August, by Claire North

Overdue

Headgum

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

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Groundhog Day meets the apocalypse in this week's book, in which the end of the world is approaching at an ever-faster pace through each of Harry August's successive lifetimes spent on earth. Hope you like paradoxes! 

Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.

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Transcript

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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.

0:41.4

Hey everybody, welcome to Overdoot's podcast about the books you've been meaning to read.

0:44.1

My name is Craig.

0:45.1

My name is Andrew.

0:46.1

I'm under strict orders not to make a crummy opener.

0:49.4

So I will just jump right in and tell you that this is a book podcast for each week.

0:55.3

One of us reads a book and tells the other person about it.

0:57.6

No goofs, no nothing, just serious business.

1:00.1

Listen, listen, listen, listen, Mr. tell me how your house's heating system is.

1:06.5

I didn't tell you not to riff.

1:09.1

I was just saying that I thought the very weird two minutes of audio that we recorded had

1:13.8

a weird energy and I wanted to take another run at it.

1:18.4

Now this intro has a totally different kind of weird energy, but I am more comfortable

1:23.2

with it.

1:24.2

I feel like it's at least better to listen to it.

1:27.5

Sure.

1:28.5

We so rarely do anything twice.

1:31.4

Everything you want to take, that's us.

1:32.9

Well that's funny because this book is about doing something 15 times at least, right?

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