Ep 597 - The Alchemist, by Paulo Cuelho

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

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

We've covered vaguely spiritual self-help books before on the show, but The Alchemist is unique insofar as it attempts to wrap the broad platitudes of a The Secret up in a there-and-back-again adventure story. Please listen, as long as it fits with your Personal Legend.

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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.
0:30.0	Hey everybody, welcome to Overdoot's a podcast about the books you've been meaning to
0:45.9	read.
0:46.9	My name is Craig.
0:47.9	My name is Andrew.
0:49.8	And for this adventure, I would like to choose the class Alchemist.
0:53.9	What are my powers, Andrew?
0:56.6	Well you can turn into wind.
0:59.9	So that's cool.
1:00.9	Cool.
1:01.9	You're very good at reading omens.
1:07.5	And you just can put people to sleep when you talk about the nature of the universe for
1:14.7	hours and hours.
1:15.7	All right.
1:16.7	I've got a roll.
1:17.7	So those are your three big ones.
1:19.2	Yeah.
1:20.2	That sounds good.
1:21.2	Welcome to our book podcast where this week we are each going to be playing Alchemists.
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