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🗓️ 10 June 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Sometimes you read a book from 1940 and you get a little upset about how relevant its characters and themes remain more than 80 years later. Sometimes! McCullers' debut novel explores capitalism, alienation, and poverty in the American South at the tail end of the Great Depression.
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0:15.6 | Plus these are books you should have read by now. Oh, uh, uh, |
0:24.0 | uh, uh, Hey everybody welcome to Overdo. It's a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read my |
0:46.7 | name is Craig my name is Andrew has your heart Andrew fine yeah. Is it complaints, I guess. Is it hunting for anything? Is it feeling like it's part of a group or like it's on its own? |
1:02.0 | These are interesting questions. |
1:05.0 | You don't have to have answers. |
1:06.0 | I didn't ask you these at a time, you don't have prepped. |
1:09.0 | Yeah, these are very deep. |
1:10.0 | No, it's just kind of in there, it's just kind of is. |
1:13.0 | Sure. |
1:14.0 | If we're talking about this week's book, which is The Heart is a lonely hunter by Carson McCallers, |
1:20.0 | I think my, you just stop at is, for for my from the state of my heart your heart is the heart is the heart is sure that's fine I don't think my heart is lonely or hunting. |
1:38.4 | I was, I saw a cardiologist a few months ago because I was born with a heart condition. |
1:41.0 | I'm fine now, don't worry about it. |
1:42.4 | And he legit was like you're fine now don't come back like it was like a really |
1:48.4 | like bothered you know he was like you know you could probably benefit from like eating a little less meat have you heard of the |
1:56.0 | Mediterranean diet you know like some generic helpful right like late 30s medical advice yeah but he basically had an air of like I'm kind of annoyed that I spent 30 minutes with you today |
2:10.9 | Please go away. That's okay, okay doc, okay doc, thanks. Thanks for the |
2:17.4 | vote of confidence. I told him that my mom would be super happy to hear that |
2:21.6 | all the Sturman-Drong she experienced when I was a baby was, I guess, not founded, and it's not founded. |
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