Hello, everybody. Welcome to 372 pages. We'll never get back. This is Connor Lestoka. This is the podcast where me and Mike Nelson read bad books together with all of you all.

And Mike, we are in the middle,

well, not in the past the middle,

of Artemis by Andy Weird,

the penultimate Artemis episode.

And the capering is ratcheting up.

So much capering, so much,

sciencing the shit out of things. Is that what it was? Yes. I'm going to science the crap out of this? Or did they actually use it? Yeah. Science the shit out of things is the line from his good book. The Oscar nominated The Martian. And we've been reading. I saw heavy, heavy scare quotes around good book. right? I'm supposed to see those, right?

Yeah, I think so. I think that we're peeling back the, the Oz-like veneer on this guy,

just like Ernest Klein, who wrote a second bad book. I think there's been some revisionist history,

at least among some of our readers who have read both of them.

I like to think that we are Toto the dog pulling back.

We bark, we run up.

We're adorable.

We fit in picnic baskets.

And then we run up and pull the curtain on a great and powerful Oz.

Someone has to have written a terrible book that's Oz told from Toto's perspective.

Right?

We could cover that.

Isn't there a musical probably called Toto or something?

I mean, he's, uh, and it's not about the band Toto.

That's the weird thing about it.

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