Episode 75 – Cuz My Beeper Kept Beepin’

372 Pages We'll Never Get Back

Arts, Books, Comedy

4.8 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Looking for good writing in a Dan Brown book is a lot like looking for a sock in a bedroom the size of Texas while sewage spews forth out of a crystal decanter. And this section of DIGITAL FORTRESS is no exception. As the book theoretically reaches the stage where it will have a point, … Continue reading "Episode 75 – Cuz My Beeper Kept Beepin’"

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. Michael Jane Nelson. This is 372 pages. We'll never get back. This is the podcast where
0:14.8	Connor Lestock and I, who is here with me now, go through bad books and talk about them. We think they're going to be
0:23.2	bad, and I don't think we've been disappointed. Is that right, Connor? Yeah, I don't think we've
0:26.8	ever read one of these books that we were like, no, this should be on, you know, high school
0:31.3	reading lists. Like, this would be, the Pulitzer committee really, really blew it this year.
0:36.7	Right. I mean, we get,
0:37.8	you know,
0:38.1	when we do our riff tracks, many times we'll get people going, why are you doing that movie? That movie's so good. Right. But we haven't really had that phenomenon. Yeah. I mean, you know, I guess Ready Player One was probably the only one of people, uh, people, people loving it or, or thinking that we were, you know,
0:35.7	crapping on their,
0:36.9	their favorite book as they,
0:38.1	you know,
0:38.7	still, only one of people, people loving it or, or thinking that we were, you know, crapping on their
0:56.3	favorite book as they, you know, worked on their Delorean out in the garage to avoid their
1:01.3	family or something. But that was an outlier, I would say. Right. In this book, I don't think
1:06.6	we're going to find many defenders of this. This is Dan Brown's digital fortress.
1:15.9	Yes. We're not going to, we're not going to submit the, to the Great American Book Awards,
1:23.4	the sentence where the guy is smearing honey on the woman in the NSA's like lunchroom or something.
1:25.9	I don't think that was necessarily going to qualify.
1:27.9	Right.
1:31.0	So we have all the departments for this episode.
1:32.6	We got a lot to talk about.
1:34.5	A lot being a lot of chapters.
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