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372 Pages We'll Never Get Back

Episode 104 – Modelland Ep 4 – O’Neil

372 Pages We'll Never Get Back

372 Pages We'll Never Get Back

Arts, Books, Comedy

4.8595 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Thank you to our Patreon supporters who keep the podcast going and have had access to this episode for a week already! Join them at patreon.com/372pages The underutilization of O’Neil is downright criminal: as though A Confederacy of Dunces just mentioned Ignatius J. Reilly and then moved on. Still, plenty of good stuff in the … Continue reading "Episode 104 – Modelland Ep 4 – O’Neil"

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody.

0:10.0

This is Carter Lestoka, and this is 372 pages.

0:12.7

We'll never get back.

0:13.8

I'm joined here to talk about bad books, specifically this week, Model Land by Mike Nelson.

0:19.6

Mike, how are you doing?

0:21.4

The book is not by me, but I am doing well, yes.

0:25.0

He said, model land by Mike Nelson.

0:26.9

I wish.

0:27.5

Oh, yeah, right.

0:28.5

I mean, introduce a third author into this mix.

0:34.0

Ah, yes, we tend to focus on one more than the other.

0:37.8

But, yeah, model land, we're to focus on one more than the other. But yeah, model land.

0:40.8

We're more than halfway through, right?

0:42.5

We did hit the halfway mark, I believe, during this specific session.

0:46.0

So it was a, it was it was bittersweet because, you know, we're, we haven't really gotten to a plot, I would say, in model land.

0:53.8

And so we're at that point,

0:55.2

sort of like we were in the last book where it's like, well, something has to happen here,

0:58.2

and the pages are dwindling with which it can happen. And also there's the madness that is

1:04.4

exposed to us through the real or fanfic starts to become like this log jam at the end.

1:10.2

That's happened in many books. So it's like, wait a minute. Yeah. You know, they have to get to Mordor. They have to throw the ring into the fire. They have to, you know, they all get naked and have a wang sword fight on Mount Doom. I mean, how's that all going to fit together at the end? Yes, exactly. there was a, I think the last realer fanfic had introduced to a dancing hunchback and stuff.

1:11.2

So we were, we were, we were end? Yes, exactly. There was a, I think the last real or fanfic had introduced a dancing hunchback and stuff,

1:30.6

so we were looking forward to that.

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