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00:00:32 ◼   ► welcome back everybody to the [TS]

00:00:34 ◼   ► uncomfortable i'm your host Jason L in [TS]

00:00:36 ◼   ► this episode we're going to be talking [TS]

00:00:37 ◼   ► about [TS]

00:00:38 ◼   ► not one particular work but the [TS]

00:00:40 ◼   ► phenomenon of being assigned reading for [TS]

00:00:43 ◼   ► class things we liked things we really [TS]

00:00:46 ◼   ► didn't like books the traumatized us [TS]

00:00:49 ◼   ► perhaps the fact that the the entire [TS]

00:00:51 ◼   ► story of of having reading assigned to [TS]

00:00:54 ◼   ► you and reading it because you must [TS]

00:00:55 ◼   ► instead of because you want to join me [TS]

00:00:59 ◼   ► on this adventure I hope they did the [TS]

00:01:01 ◼   ► reading mr. maybe two or three final [TS]

00:01:05 ◼   ► point David Lawrence here hello hello [TS]

00:01:08 ◼   ► Erica enzyme is also out there [TS]

00:01:12 ◼   ► hello yeah but I did the reading yeah [TS]

00:01:14 ◼   ► I'm good good I'm glad and from a [TS]

00:01:16 ◼   ► far-off land actually closer than usual [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► it's andy and Aiko hi Andy [TS]

00:01:20 ◼   ► Erica did you have your pass me your [TS]

00:01:23 ◼   ► mother what I'd read it may come on give [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► me my lunch money today we're going to [TS]

00:01:27 ◼   ► talk so assigned reading of the premise [TS]

00:01:30 ◼   ► here is obviously you get you get [TS]

00:01:32 ◼   ► assigned reading in class and there's [TS]

00:01:34 ◼   ► the books that you love but you know [TS]

00:01:35 ◼   ► there are also the books that you hate [TS]

00:01:36 ◼   ► that drove you up the wall and into not [TS]

00:01:39 ◼   ► that we want to go entirely negative [TS]

00:01:41 ◼   ► here but I'll you know it's fun to talk [TS]

00:01:43 ◼   ► about to talk about that stuff and [TS]

00:01:44 ◼   ► classics and and they make you read that [TS]

00:01:46 ◼   ► you that you didn't like or that you did [TS]

00:01:49 ◼   ► like so we're going to start off David [TS]

00:01:51 ◼   ► Lord do you have something you want to [TS]

00:01:53 ◼   ► talk about a book that either displays [TS]

00:01:55 ◼   ► your please use this is not a draft so [TS]

00:01:57 ◼   ► much as a a parade [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► why don't even know i just made that I [TS]

00:02:01 ◼   ► like that already look see [TS]

00:02:03 ◼   ► did you start off the parade of the [TS]

00:02:05 ◼   ► Grand Marshal today I i was gonna say do [TS]

00:02:08 ◼   ► do we do we serve you like the saturday [TS]

00:02:10 ◼   ► night live episode and just invoke [TS]

00:02:12 ◼   ► everyone gets catcher in the rye know [TS]

00:02:14 ◼   ► that not everybody gets catcher in the [TS]

00:02:17 ◼   ► rye how depends which category upid that [TS]

00:02:20 ◼   ► well that should lead to some [TS]

00:02:21 ◼   ► interesting discussion but you go ahead [TS]

00:02:23 ◼   ► David well I'm since since i'm leading [TS]

00:02:27 ◼   ► off and and if this were draft [TS]

00:02:29 ◼   ► I wonder how many people I would trip up [TS]

00:02:32 ◼   ► by picking a separate peace by john [TS]

00:02:34 ◼   ► knowles which is I guess I guess a good [TS]

00:02:39 ◼   ► alternate title for it would be whiney [TS]

00:02:41 ◼   ► white privilege is what you [TS]

00:02:45 ◼   ► oh god I still have flashbacks I've [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► never read this tell me what this book [TS]

00:02:49 ◼   ► and they're basically it's it's two boys [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► at a prep school who develop an intense [TS]

00:02:57 ◼   ► friendship and and tragedy strikes you [TS]

00:03:01 ◼   ► know it's just it's already get the [TS]

00:03:03 ◼   ► consumption and no one unfortunately [TS]

00:03:06 ◼   ► unfortunat last but you know me and I [TS]

00:03:09 ◼   ► just I wanted everyone in this book to [TS]

00:03:12 ◼   ► die and i like that chapter 20 just go [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► away leave me alone [TS]

00:03:17 ◼   ► I mean I was not a fan of Catcher in the [TS]

00:03:19 ◼   ► Rye but at least I could get through it [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► but but this was the same year this was [TS]

00:03:24 ◼   ► 11th grade 11th grade honors english was [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► brilliant because it was a separate [TS]

00:03:28 ◼   ► peace catcher in the rye Macbeth [TS]

00:03:32 ◼   ► I mean it was just sort of this parade [TS]

00:03:34 ◼   ► of tragedy and depression and oh that [TS]

00:03:38 ◼   ► but a separate piece was the worst of [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► the lot [TS]

00:03:40 ◼   ► it's it's like dead poets society except [TS]

00:03:42 ◼   ► not as fun [TS]

00:03:44 ◼   ► yelitza and I hate dead poets society [TS]

00:03:46 ◼   ► ever heard of the device but I've never [TS]

00:03:48 ◼   ► I've never read it so I i guess my guess [TS]

00:03:51 ◼   ► we escaped from the Swede sweet i don't [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► have to wait for the team taking don't [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► don't do it don't do it separate peace [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► they made a movie of that too apparently [TS]

00:04:02 ◼   ► yes will be something yeah I have also [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► heard of it but but never never read it [TS]

00:04:07 ◼   ► that was not one of the ones we had to [TS]

00:04:08 ◼   ► read this is I think but the most [TS]

00:04:10 ◼   ► telling thing about if you do a Google [TS]

00:04:11 ◼   ► search for a separate piece you know [TS]

00:04:13 ◼   ► what comes up first [TS]

00:04:14 ◼   ► oh not the wikipedia page not the amazon [TS]

00:04:18 ◼   ► page what comes up first is the [TS]

00:04:20 ◼   ► sparknotes wow so you are any [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► CliffsNotes is the fifth so I yeah [TS]

00:04:29 ◼   ► because you don't want to have to [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► actually read this is if you can help it [TS]

00:04:34 ◼   ► I think we should rank all of the the [TS]

00:04:36 ◼   ► books that we talked about tonight based [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► on what you know how many go down to [TS]

00:04:40 ◼   ► just three i will i'm gonna be manning [TS]

00:04:42 ◼   ► the browser interrupt your eggs let Andy [TS]

00:04:47 ◼   ► and I could want you want you throw in a [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► uh some assigned reading that you didn't [TS]

00:04:51 ◼   ► like about that all that this was an [TS]

00:04:54 ◼   ► easy one [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► Ethan from I absolutely freaking aided [TS]

00:04:59 ◼   ► this book and maybe admittedly it was [TS]

00:05:02 ◼   ► partly because of the way that this book [TS]

00:05:04 ◼   ► was being taught every single thing that [TS]

00:05:07 ◼   ► could possibly have been symbolism this [TS]

00:05:09 ◼   ► teacher wanted to understand that [TS]

00:05:11 ◼   ► let's talk about the pickle dish today [TS]

00:05:14 ◼   ► now it's not justice is that it's not [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► just a pickle dish you have to [TS]

00:05:19 ◼   ► understand that what the author med is [TS]

00:05:21 ◼   ► for us to transform friends modify our [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► feelings about this relationship to the [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► pickle dish and I'm like I'm not I [TS]

00:05:30 ◼   ► wasn't having it [TS]

00:05:31 ◼   ► I i remember it was a landmark book for [TS]

00:05:33 ◼   ► me and get class because it was the one [TS]

00:05:35 ◼   ► where it's like I we did the sweetest [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► Shakespeare couple years ago and i was [TS]

00:05:40 ◼   ► with you all through that we did a whole [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► bunch of series and other books i was [TS]

00:05:43 ◼   ► with you i was willing to die I could [TS]

00:05:44 ◼   ► sense what you wanted me to say on this [TS]

00:05:46 ◼   ► test on this essay or in this class work [TS]

00:05:49 ◼   ► and I gave it to you [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► I draw the line at ethan frome because i [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► read it and was just this drippy over [TS]

00:05:55 ◼   ► rod overwritten doesn't ever get to the [TS]

00:05:59 ◼   ► point story where instead of like Shh [TS]

00:06:02 ◼   ► distance instead of putting something in [TS]

00:06:04 ◼   ► the book that's materially interesting [TS]

00:06:06 ◼   ► or put advances the plot this author [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► wanted to put four pages on let's talk [TS]

00:06:11 ◼   ► about the color now of the candy dish [TS]

00:06:14 ◼   ► let's have a scene which their heads [TS]

00:06:15 ◼   ► touch but almost touch and I'm but i [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► believe that this was also the first one [TS]

00:06:22 ◼   ► where I handed in the essay which I said [TS]

00:06:24 ◼   ► this is I didn't say the word crap but I [TS]

00:06:27 ◼   ► basically said this is just a badly [TS]

00:06:29 ◼   ► written book that should be forgotten I [TS]

00:06:32 ◼   ► don't know who Edith Wharton is I don't [TS]

00:06:33 ◼   ► know she had a career before that or [TS]

00:06:35 ◼   ► after that but I want no part of her guy [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► said good day sir [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► well to be fair uh full credit award me [TS]

00:06:44 ◼   ► the eighth and from wikipedia page [TS]

00:06:46 ◼   ► number one on google sparknotes number [TS]

00:06:48 ◼   ► two [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► Nick so not quite as bad but again a [TS]

00:06:54 ◼   ► sign of assigned reading you Andy [TS]

00:06:57 ◼   ► it's funny I haven't read ethan frome [TS]

00:06:59 ◼   ► but I've read some early American [TS]

00:07:01 ◼   ► literature it's [TS]

00:07:03 ◼   ► not with me this 1911 yeah this is a [TS]

00:07:06 ◼   ► little more reason but it's uh I took an [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► American classic English class I was a [TS]

00:07:11 ◼   ► little minor in college and read a lot [TS]

00:07:15 ◼   ► of early and and and modern English Lit [TS]

00:07:18 ◼   ► at but american lit which obviously [TS]

00:07:20 ◼   ► doesn't go as far back when I was a [TS]

00:07:22 ◼   ► rough class realize it took a long time [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► for American literature to kind of [TS]

00:07:27 ◼   ► figure out what I wanted to be and uh [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► you know even from home for instance [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► good yeah yeah [TS]

00:07:34 ◼   ► no seriously I i never read ethan frome [TS]

00:07:37 ◼   ► but I did see the movie of the age of [TS]

00:07:39 ◼   ► innocence and I hated that so I also [TS]

00:07:42 ◼   ► give a thumbs down saying you in [TS]

00:07:44 ◼   ► solidarity alright [TS]

00:07:46 ◼   ► solid i'll I i enjoy where this is going [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► this is like you just like our hands on [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► our English teacher is happening at this [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► is great Erica what you haven't heard [TS]

00:07:54 ◼   ► back yet this is beautiful this is [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► working out i'm going to get back a [TS]

00:07:58 ◼   ► little farther and we speaking in my own [TS]

00:08:00 ◼   ► life i'm going back to fifth grade [TS]

00:08:01 ◼   ► wow that was yeah that was when they [TS]

00:08:03 ◼   ► started assigning actual full books now [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► they weren't super long novels like I [TS]

00:08:07 ◼   ► assume ethan frome was but we had to [TS]

00:08:09 ◼   ► wear a little book called or we had to [TS]

00:08:11 ◼   ► read a little book called where the red [TS]

00:08:13 ◼   ► fern grows they don't know if you guys [TS]

00:08:15 ◼   ► were subjected to this but yeah it's [TS]

00:08:18 ◼   ► it's a story that takes place was [TS]

00:08:21 ◼   ► written in the sixties takes place in [TS]

00:08:22 ◼   ► the Ozarks pot a little boy whose [TS]

00:08:24 ◼   ► training his his two dogs two to go coon [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► huntin yeah it's just there's this one [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► scene in the book that I will always [TS]

00:08:32 ◼   ► remember where his dad's he needs to [TS]

00:08:35 ◼   ► catch a raccoon so that he can use the [TS]

00:08:36 ◼   ► pail to train the dogs to go hunting and [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► the way that they do that is they make a [TS]

00:08:39 ◼   ► hole in a log and they put something [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► shiny at the bottom of it and then found [TS]

00:08:43 ◼   ► a bunch of of nails in so that they're [TS]

00:08:45 ◼   ► basically spike sticking out in this [TS]

00:08:47 ◼   ► whole so the raccoon comes up poor [TS]

00:08:49 ◼   ► little guy reaches down into the hole to [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► get the shiny thing grabs onto it and [TS]

00:08:54 ◼   ► then when he makes a fist he can't pull [TS]

00:08:55 ◼   ► his poor little pop back out because of [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► all these nails and apparently raccoons [TS]

00:08:59 ◼   ► don't like to let go once they grab [TS]

00:09:00 ◼   ► something shiny [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► I guess I can understand that around so [TS]

00:09:03 ◼   ► you can they clubbed to death and it [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► gets to use and is yeah and then of [TS]

00:09:08 ◼   ► course the dogs die at the end of the [TS]

00:09:10 ◼   ► book and it was just I hated it from [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► beginning to end [TS]

00:09:14 ◼   ► there's nothing good about that book [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► I haven't read this either i'm feeling [TS]

00:09:17 ◼   ► very good very good about my my uh my [TS]

00:09:20 ◼   ► literary background and not having read [TS]

00:09:21 ◼   ► these with whether it's from Blue Rose [TS]

00:09:24 ◼   ► interestingly enough the sparknotes [TS]

00:09:25 ◼   ► fifth in the google search for winter [TS]

00:09:28 ◼   ► without maybe because it's not being [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► used as much anymore because people have [TS]

00:09:32 ◼   ► come to recognize that it's maybe not [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► the nicest thing for 5th graders to be [TS]

00:09:37 ◼   ► reading just guess [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► yeah okay that's good that's good i I'm [TS]

00:09:42 ◼   ► gonna go so i'm going to go to college [TS]

00:09:44 ◼   ► for this one because this is my number 1 [TS]

00:09:46 ◼   ► i've got another one reserved for later [TS]

00:09:48 ◼   ► but my number-one disliked book that was [TS]

00:09:52 ◼   ► assigned to me in my last quarter of my [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► five quarter long humanities course that [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► everybody in my college had to take and [TS]

00:10:03 ◼   ► I did really well in those classes i [TS]

00:10:06 ◼   ► love them and then we got to the last [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► quarter and I didn't like the professor [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► and I didn't like the assigned reading [TS]

00:10:12 ◼   ► most specifically gustave flaubert his [TS]

00:10:15 ◼   ► debut novel you know what you love it [TS]

00:10:16 ◼   ► you can't live without her [TS]

00:10:18 ◼   ► Madame Bovary that went to buy your [TS]

00:10:24 ◼   ► groans from people who read Madame [TS]

00:10:26 ◼   ► Bovary we read it in French class [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► I'm so I'm so sorry oh I'm so because [TS]

00:10:33 ◼   ► it's bad it's bad many language folks it [TS]

00:10:38 ◼   ► is [TS]

00:10:39 ◼   ► yeah so Madame Bovary has affairs you [TS]

00:10:43 ◼   ► can because of anhui all the ennui on we [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► the the set and it is endless and again [TS]

00:10:52 ◼   ► I don't know and it's a short book it is [TS]

00:10:56 ◼   ► like after dark i guess it's just gonna [TS]

00:11:01 ◼   ► be us say it was another book there's [TS]

00:11:04 ◼   ► another one let's do it again [TS]

00:11:08 ◼   ► you can start this man for making me [TS]

00:11:09 ◼   ► read that yeah 3 hours 3 hours and then [TS]

00:11:12 ◼   ► Madame Bovary yeah and again I had the [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► cultural context the the end of the [TS]

00:11:18 ◼   ► period in France when it's written and [TS]

00:11:20 ◼   ► perhaps one must only truly be French [TS]

00:11:23 ◼   ► and reading in French to understand but [TS]

00:11:24 ◼   ► to me it just was this it's it was just [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► it was just show so bad and everybody is [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► awful and then we be but the the events [TS]

00:11:36 ◼   ► that occur throughout our kind of staged [TS]

00:11:40 ◼   ► and then and then she ends up having [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► affairs this is what i'm saying is like [TS]

00:11:45 ◼   ► it's like oh yes we I'm shocked that [TS]

00:11:47 ◼   ► this is happening again i hate i hate [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► Madame Bovary like the character and the [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► book so that I could never I could never [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► be 4i can picture that English professor [TS]

00:11:57 ◼   ► talking about Madame Bovary tells us [TS]

00:12:00 ◼   ► that there are the man she had one hell [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► of a pickle dish [TS]

00:12:05 ◼   ► well she was a very popular lady Madame [TS]

00:12:08 ◼   ► Bovary and yeah I think flower bear just [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► not it's not my kinda my kind of writer [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► but I I yeah just a random French lady [TS]

00:12:20 ◼   ► going around having affairs in the chat [TS]

00:12:23 ◼   ► room we have a French person to confirm [TS]

00:12:26 ◼   ► for us that it's horrible [TS]

00:12:28 ◼   ► haha that's wonderful [TS]

00:12:31 ◼   ► okay that's one round down this is the [TS]

00:12:34 ◼   ► best podcast ever by the way just [TS]

00:12:36 ◼   ► letting it as my gosh merapi we're all [TS]

00:12:39 ◼   ► looking to get about because game since [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► this is an episode about things that I [TS]

00:12:43 ◼   ► like and hate i want to tell you about [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► something I hate and something i like [TS]

00:12:47 ◼   ► something from my past that I hate in [TS]

00:12:49 ◼   ► addition to Madame Bovary well my old [TS]

00:12:52 ◼   ► mattress [TS]

00:12:52 ◼   ► I didn't like it it was bouncy looks [TS]

00:12:54 ◼   ► like a trampoline was uncomfortable I [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► wasn't sleeping well you know something [TS]

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00:13:01 ◼   ► sleep on a casper mattresses now and i [TS]

00:13:03 ◼   ► love it [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► they say it's got just the right balance [TS]

00:13:05 ◼   ► just the right spring it feels great [TS]

00:13:08 ◼   ► it's a combination of latex foam and [TS]

00:13:10 ◼   ► memory foam so the sink is good [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► the balance is good it's not like [TS]

00:13:14 ◼   ► sleeping on a trampoline but it's also [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► not if you had a memory foam mattress in [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► the past and it felt weird to you [TS]

00:13:20 ◼   ► combination of the two phones really [TS]

00:13:21 ◼   ► makes a big difference you spend a third [TS]

00:13:23 ◼   ► of your life sleeping [TS]

00:13:24 ◼   ► you should do it in style casper [TS]

00:13:26 ◼   ► mattresses working for me it could work [TS]

00:13:27 ◼   ► for you and if you're wondering well [TS]

00:13:29 ◼   ► okay i'm interested but I'm really [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► afraid to get a mattress ship to my door [TS]

00:13:34 ◼   ► in a box that seems a little bit weird [TS]

00:13:36 ◼   ► yeah okay it's not usual but it's kind [TS]

00:13:39 ◼   ► of brilliant the box is really small and [TS]

00:13:40 ◼   ► then you open it up and it expands to [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► fit your to fill the space after you [TS]

00:13:44 ◼   ► open the box because it's kind of shrink [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► wrapped but there's no risk here they've [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► got a free trial and return policy they [TS]

00:13:50 ◼   ► will deliver the mattress straight to [TS]

00:13:52 ◼   ► you you get that box you open it up you [TS]

00:13:54 ◼   ► sleep on it for up to a hundred days and [TS]

00:13:56 ◼   ► if you're not happy they'll pick it back [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► up they'll take it away so you really [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► need to try casper mattresses I i really [TS]

00:14:04 ◼   ► enjoy sleeping on on ours we got rid of [TS]

00:14:06 ◼   ► our old king size bed actually replace [TS]

00:14:07 ◼   ► it with a queen because the kids are [TS]

00:14:08 ◼   ► older now and they're not crawling into [TS]

00:14:10 ◼   ► bed because of a nightmare is often and [TS]

00:14:12 ◼   ► and it's been really great to switch [TS]

00:14:14 ◼   ► back to a queen-size and a super comfy [TS]

00:14:17 ◼   ► mattress with Casper prices are great [TS]

00:14:19 ◼   ► 504 twin 954 a king and of course there [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► are different sizes in between those [TS]

00:14:24 ◼   ► things compared to industry averages [TS]

00:14:25 ◼   ► it's a great price point and you can [TS]

00:14:27 ◼   ► save fifty dollars so it'll be an even [TS]

00:14:29 ◼   ► better price by going to Casper dot-com [TS]

00:14:32 ◼   ► / incomparable the name of this podcast [TS]

00:14:34 ◼   ► Casper dot-com / incomparable tell him [TS]

00:14:36 ◼   ► we sent you and you'll say fifty dollars [TS]

00:14:38 ◼   ► thank you so much to Casper every day I [TS]

00:14:41 ◼   ► wake up on a Casper mattress and I'm [TS]

00:14:43 ◼   ► very happy about it [TS]

00:14:44 ◼   ► you should check them out so should we [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► go positive or should we just bring out [TS]

00:14:47 ◼   ► more dead here let's bring out your dead [TS]

00:14:49 ◼   ► taking david i can i can do both in one [TS]

00:14:52 ◼   ► okay [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► oh my I can't because at the time now [TS]

00:14:57 ◼   ► now my mother as part of part of her you [TS]

00:15:00 ◼   ► know many hats in her life she taught [TS]

00:15:02 ◼   ► English in high school middle school for [TS]

00:15:05 ◼   ► like two years and and she once said [TS]

00:15:10 ◼   ► that seventh and eighth graders are [TS]

00:15:11 ◼   ► horrible and now that I'm the parent of [TS]

00:15:14 ◼   ► a seventh-grader she was right and [TS]

00:15:18 ◼   ► either but she was very patient she [TS]

00:15:20 ◼   ► taught english so so i would bring home [TS]

00:15:23 ◼   ► these books and I would slag on [TS]

00:15:25 ◼   ► them and and she be like yeah that one [TS]

00:15:27 ◼   ► sucks don't know [TS]

00:15:28 ◼   ► here I'll help you get through that one [TS]

00:15:30 ◼   ► because you shouldn't have to read that [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► and and various things like that and now [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► going back to French class before we [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► read Madame Bovary we read the little [TS]

00:15:41 ◼   ► prince by Antoine de saint-exupéry and [TS]

00:15:45 ◼   ► now we're ready to infringe and I don't [TS]

00:15:48 ◼   ► know I just maybe I wasn't ready for it [TS]

00:15:51 ◼   ► at that point I hate it and I didn't [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► want to read it I didn't want to get [TS]

00:15:56 ◼   ► through it and I came home and she said [TS]

00:15:59 ◼   ► what are you doing in class and we're [TS]

00:16:00 ◼   ► doing a little prince i cannot stand it [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► and she just looked at me and she said [TS]

00:16:05 ◼   ► no you are reading the little prince [TS]

00:16:07 ◼   ► so but but I don't and but and and you [TS]

00:16:13 ◼   ► know I slogged through it and survived [TS]

00:16:15 ◼   ► flashforward all these years later my [TS]

00:16:19 ◼   ► oldest son is I don't know three or four [TS]

00:16:21 ◼   ► he picks it up and he goes what is this [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► and he wanted me to read it to him and [TS]

00:16:27 ◼   ► as I'm reading it to him and I'm kind of [TS]

00:16:28 ◼   ► gritting my teeth at the beginning is [TS]

00:16:30 ◼   ► like a little prince are fine [TS]

00:16:35 ◼   ► draw me a sheep draw me a sheep draw me [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► a hat you know all the different things [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► in the book and as i as i was reading it [TS]

00:16:42 ◼   ► I'm I'm falling in love with it and so [TS]

00:16:44 ◼   ► so it's one of the few books and in my [TS]

00:16:47 ◼   ► school career where I wind up falling in [TS]

00:16:49 ◼   ► love with it [TS]

00:16:50 ◼   ► decades later and now i love it i right [TS]

00:16:53 ◼   ► tell people to read it maybe I need to [TS]

00:16:55 ◼   ► have kids or something because I really [TS]

00:16:57 ◼   ► didn't like that but i don't know i [TS]

00:17:00 ◼   ► don't know everybody's gonna do it it it [TS]

00:17:02 ◼   ► it helps having having been through a [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► little bit of life i don't think it's [TS]

00:17:07 ◼   ► really a book that that is aimed at [TS]

00:17:10 ◼   ► eight kids I think it's a book where you [TS]

00:17:12 ◼   ► need to have lived a little bit and you [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► need to have a little weathering on you [TS]

00:17:16 ◼   ► and and even even get to have letter [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► creative life because it is about [TS]

00:17:20 ◼   ► writing and drawing and and building and [TS]

00:17:23 ◼   ► it hit me in a completely different way [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► after 20 years so yeah i can i can see [TS]

00:17:31 ◼   ► that cuz i get my memories of it are are [TS]

00:17:34 ◼   ► somewhat faint but but I completely [TS]

00:17:36 ◼   ► agree that it's the kind of thing that i [TS]

00:17:37 ◼   ► think i would get more [TS]

00:17:38 ◼   ► of now if I were to to read it as [TS]

00:17:41 ◼   ► opposed to them [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► yeah-hoo-hoo decides these books and [TS]

00:17:45 ◼   ► decides that these are good for children [TS]

00:17:46 ◼   ► as opposed to adults if you like the [TS]

00:17:49 ◼   ► decision-making processes maybe a little [TS]

00:17:51 ◼   ► iffy but Jason did you tell us where [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► Madame Bovary and then this little [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► yesterday music search all i didn't i [TS]

00:17:58 ◼   ► didn't sorry i've been asleep i might [TS]

00:18:00 ◼   ► hinder hooks ok mathis mount Bovary [TS]

00:18:02 ◼   ► you'll be happy to know i finished [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► second I its wikipedia first sparknotes [TS]

00:18:08 ◼   ► second so it's right it's right there [TS]

00:18:11 ◼   ► and I I'm knot no spark notes is done a [TS]

00:18:15 ◼   ► really good job by the way I should save [TS]

00:18:17 ◼   ► search engine optimization they think [TS]

00:18:19 ◼   ► they they pop up above cliff notes and [TS]

00:18:22 ◼   ► above a snoop which is apparently any [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► another summary sites moop this episode [TS]

00:18:28 ◼   ► is not brought to you by shmoop but [TS]

00:18:29 ◼   ► there are days for by sparknotes but it [TS]

00:18:32 ◼   ► is available so the little prince and I [TS]

00:18:35 ◼   ► haven't searched that one so let's do [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► that right now the little prince will be [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► official little prince web site comes up [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► first [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► of course then wikipedia than amazon and [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► then sparknotes so it's not before it [TS]

00:18:46 ◼   ► gets a four score a little bit lower i [TS]

00:18:48 ◼   ► think they're doing a new movie version [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► of it or something to probably the movie [TS]

00:18:54 ◼   ► musical version of it is lovely i [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► remember watching some some weird [TS]

00:18:58 ◼   ► version of it when I was a child and I [TS]

00:18:59 ◼   ► hated that almost as much as the book i [TS]

00:19:03 ◼   ► wonder if the active assigning something [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► ruins thanks for it does it does just [TS]

00:19:09 ◼   ► you you read it was a sign you were [TS]

00:19:10 ◼   ► cited you hate it when you came back to [TS]

00:19:12 ◼   ► it later and then then you liked it i'm [TS]

00:19:14 ◼   ► watching it with my own son who loved [TS]

00:19:17 ◼   ► reading until he started getting [TS]

00:19:18 ◼   ► assigned actual books and now it's [TS]

00:19:20 ◼   ► pulling teeth because they forced him to [TS]

00:19:23 ◼   ► read stuff [TS]

00:19:24 ◼   ► yeah I said we're doing a Pakistani said [TS]

00:19:26 ◼   ► when he went to what's the topic when I [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► said well it'sit's books of your [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► assigned books that we hated from school [TS]

00:19:32 ◼   ► and those Gary Paulson's hatchet [TS]

00:19:34 ◼   ► I hate hatch they'll do that to my list [TS]

00:19:37 ◼   ► so you just bumped for me is yeah I will [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► I will [TS]

00:19:44 ◼   ► ok I'm not supervised on sparknotes [TS]

00:19:46 ◼   ► catches awful awful books that they have [TS]

00:19:50 ◼   ► to read and you [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► I mean I i did that in seventh grade [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► myself with I can't even remember the [TS]

00:19:56 ◼   ► name of the book but it's it said during [TS]

00:19:57 ◼   ► the French and Indian War and Fort [TS]

00:19:59 ◼   ► Ticonderoga and I could not stand it and [TS]

00:20:02 ◼   ► then we read caddie Woodlawn which is [TS]

00:20:04 ◼   ► you know kind of a poor man's Little [TS]

00:20:07 ◼   ► House on the Prairie which oh wow I mean [TS]

00:20:10 ◼   ► I hated Little House on the Prairie but [TS]

00:20:11 ◼   ► at least give me the real one [TS]

00:20:14 ◼   ► you know Andy what do you have what do [TS]

00:20:18 ◼   ► you have next major hate flow through [TS]

00:20:21 ◼   ► you [TS]

00:20:21 ◼   ► I I think he touched on something [TS]

00:20:27 ◼   ► earlier that sometimes it's a perfectly [TS]

00:20:30 ◼   ► good book but it's the way that's being [TS]

00:20:32 ◼   ► talked to you that ever that that there [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► are the context is basically imagine [TS]

00:20:37 ◼   ► that there's something that's really [TS]

00:20:39 ◼   ► delicious plate of vegetables but for [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► being presented you as you're 30 years [TS]

00:20:44 ◼   ► old [TS]

00:20:44 ◼   ► here is a plate of really healthy [TS]

00:20:47 ◼   ► vegetables they're really good for you [TS]

00:20:49 ◼   ► and that just makes you want to say well [TS]

00:20:51 ◼   ► i'm not gonna try this biscuit you're [TS]

00:20:53 ◼   ► lying to me this is terrible and for me [TS]

00:20:56 ◼   ► one of those books was Kafka's [TS]

00:20:57 ◼   ► metamorphosis then haha i've read I've [TS]

00:21:00 ◼   ► read much later after realizing that [TS]

00:21:03 ◼   ► will look this doesn't sound like a bad [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► book I should maybe i'm just maybe I was [TS]

00:21:06 ◼   ► just like sort of you know gritty like [TS]

00:21:08 ◼   ► teen is rebelling and I think the reason [TS]

00:21:11 ◼   ► why I didn't lie i remembers singularly [TS]

00:21:13 ◼   ► not enjoying the process of having to [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► read this book and discussed in class [TS]

00:21:17 ◼   ► and looking back on it I think the [TS]

00:21:19 ◼   ► reason why was because this is a real [TS]

00:21:22 ◼   ► corker of a horror story just to the [TS]

00:21:24 ◼   ► brilliantly written taught you really [TS]

00:21:28 ◼   ► get to see it doesn't get it doesn't [TS]

00:21:30 ◼   ► focus on the physicality of what's [TS]

00:21:32 ◼   ► happening with it but instead about the [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► emotions of what's happening in the [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► metamorphoses not only of physical body [TS]

00:21:39 ◼   ► but of attitude when were you [TS]

00:21:42 ◼   ► someone's body changes that way and [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► what's the relationship was the actual [TS]

00:21:46 ◼   ► relationship between this the center [TS]

00:21:48 ◼   ► person in the story and all the family [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► around them and this is a great i get a [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► cracking horror story and I think the [TS]

00:21:55 ◼   ► reason why I rebelled was because we [TS]

00:21:57 ◼   ► weren't allowed to simply read it and be [TS]

00:21:59 ◼   ► scared and enjoy it [TS]

00:22:01 ◼   ► and just because the creek that I think [TS]

00:22:04 ◼   ► the worse than the more worse of a creep [TS]

00:22:06 ◼   ► out then being transformed into a giant [TS]

00:22:08 ◼   ► cockroach is realized that oh well now [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► everybody's going to abandon you and now [TS]

00:22:12 ◼   ► treat you as something less than human [TS]

00:22:14 ◼   ► that doesn't matter how much what [TS]

00:22:16 ◼   ► relationship you have them beforehand [TS]

00:22:17 ◼   ► how much you did for them either they [TS]

00:22:19 ◼   ► will absolutely turn on US citizens [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► inconvenient soon as your inconvenient [TS]

00:22:23 ◼   ► to them and instead we really we have [TS]

00:22:25 ◼   ► learned about Kafka's world and what [TS]

00:22:28 ◼   ► sort of statement he was trying to make [TS]

00:22:30 ◼   ► about the society that he lived in and [TS]

00:22:33 ◼   ► what let's all find up the well with the [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► Gregor Samsa job was this so what what [TS]

00:22:40 ◼   ► kind of job with that have been [TS]

00:22:41 ◼   ► ingrained in Kafka's time and I can't be [TS]

00:22:44 ◼   ► just like be scraped out by really good [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► creepy story and save it was not the [TS]

00:22:50 ◼   ► state i have to realize realize in [TS]

00:22:52 ◼   ► retrospect it wasn't the story I didn't [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► like it was the experience of being [TS]

00:22:55 ◼   ► taught that story because i've read it [TS]

00:22:58 ◼   ► since and I've enjoyed it a lot and i'm [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► wishing that I was a little I'm i don't [TS]

00:23:02 ◼   ► remember exactly how snotty i was about [TS]

00:23:04 ◼   ► this book but I have memories in high [TS]

00:23:07 ◼   ► school of basically a kind of like with [TS]

00:23:09 ◼   ► ethan frome that's the second book in [TS]

00:23:11 ◼   ► high school where I was just not having [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:23:14 ◼   ► I do that I think you know when you're [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► reading a book that's assigned I you're [TS]

00:23:20 ◼   ► you're okay so i would work we're on the [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► uncomfortable podcast here a lot of what [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► we consume as media is assigned in the [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► set your sights and God cast right and [TS]

00:23:32 ◼   ► it is different when you're just sitting [TS]

00:23:34 ◼   ► back and enjoying something versus very [TS]

00:23:36 ◼   ► saying like what am I going to get out [TS]

00:23:38 ◼   ► of this even if it's something that you [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► love and you've seen a million times [TS]

00:23:40 ◼   ► like I'm going to take notes i'm going [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► to pay attention to this and when you're [TS]

00:23:43 ◼   ► reading a book let anybody talk about [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► the metamorphosis sanity if you're if [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► you're saying alright I gotta glean from [TS]

00:23:48 ◼   ► this I gotta get some stuff out of this [TS]

00:23:50 ◼   ► i got my highlighter pen write verses [TS]

00:23:53 ◼   ► like I'm just going to read the story [TS]

00:23:55 ◼   ► and enjoy it and and maybe enjoy it more [TS]

00:23:58 ◼   ► but be able to say less about it and [TS]

00:24:00 ◼   ► then that that can change how you [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► interact with a work not knowing knowing [TS]

00:24:03 ◼   ► that in a day or two you're going to be [TS]

00:24:05 ◼   ► forced to defend your reading of this [TS]

00:24:07 ◼   ► book you're not gonna be able to simply [TS]

00:24:09 ◼   ► say I liked it or I didn't like it [TS]

00:24:11 ◼   ► you're gonna have to say in [TS]

00:24:13 ◼   ► five paragraphs in order in great amount [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► of structure i feel as though the path [TS]

00:24:20 ◼   ► that this character took was very very [TS]

00:24:23 ◼   ► meandering and here are the three [TS]

00:24:25 ◼   ► reasons why I felt that was that way [TS]

00:24:27 ◼   ► when when we read for pleasure or watch [TS]

00:24:30 ◼   ► TV or movies for pleasure it is [TS]

00:24:31 ◼   ► sufficient for us to say I just really [TS]

00:24:33 ◼   ► didn't like it or boy did I love this [TS]

00:24:35 ◼   ► and when you're talking to friends maybe [TS]

00:24:37 ◼   ► you can have a really entertaining [TS]

00:24:39 ◼   ► conversation about what each of you [TS]

00:24:41 ◼   ► liked or didn't like but at no point is [TS]

00:24:43 ◼   ► there somebody in like you know a white [TS]

00:24:46 ◼   ► and black striped shirt like blowing a [TS]

00:24:48 ◼   ► whistle and giving you points on how [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► well you've been discussing this book [TS]

00:24:51 ◼   ► yeah we did that show up on the googles [TS]

00:24:53 ◼   ► oh god the metamorphosis google result [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► the metamorphosis number two is the [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► sparknotes shmoop at three [TS]

00:25:02 ◼   ► good job creation and project gutenberg [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► because that is a a public domain demand [TS]

00:25:07 ◼   ► is fourth so that's good [TS]

00:25:09 ◼   ► I mean density that's something i was [TS]

00:25:10 ◼   ► able to read at the time just for kicks [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► yeah i also just remember that at the [TS]

00:25:16 ◼   ► time i was reading a lot of Ray Bradbury [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► and one of Madison and so maybe that was [TS]

00:25:22 ◼   ► also affecting look I'm i could see this [TS]

00:25:24 ◼   ► as being in that same category as both [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► of those riders so I'm like why are we [TS]

00:25:29 ◼   ► just not enjoying this this is supposed [TS]

00:25:31 ◼   ► to be enjoyable so I had metamorphosis [TS]

00:25:33 ◼   ► assigned to me i want to say my [TS]

00:25:35 ◼   ► sophomore year of college might have [TS]

00:25:37 ◼   ► been a freshman year but I are i [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► remember reading that in college and I [TS]

00:25:40 ◼   ► liked it and I remember I remember and [TS]

00:25:43 ◼   ► it has that opposite effect which will [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► get two and we talk about some things we [TS]

00:25:46 ◼   ► like of of oh I actually like the [TS]

00:25:49 ◼   ► assigned reading think that is very nice [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► of course i would be remiss if I didn't [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► mention that this is also one of the [TS]

00:25:54 ◼   ► funniest jokes i find in mel brooks's [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► movie The Producers yes the original [TS]

00:25:59 ◼   ► where one of the script was reading [TS]

00:26:01 ◼   ► Gregor Samsa awoke to find have been [TS]

00:26:04 ◼   ► transformed and thought giant cockroach [TS]

00:26:08 ◼   ► nah no good so I've admitted in this [TS]

00:26:13 ◼   ► episode that I don't like Madame Bovary [TS]

00:26:15 ◼   ► let me tell you about something else I [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► don't like spam [TS]

00:26:19 ◼   ► I hate it I hate email spam but you know [TS]

00:26:21 ◼   ► what it's not a problem anymore just as [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► I left Madame Bovary behind me and it's [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► just a [TS]

00:26:27 ◼   ► an unpleasant mess memory from the past [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► spam also an unpleasant memory from the [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► past that I don't need to relive and [TS]

00:26:33 ◼   ► that's because of our sponsor mail route [TS]

00:26:36 ◼   ► mail route is a service that sits [TS]

00:26:38 ◼   ► between my mail server and the big bad [TS]

00:26:40 ◼   ► internet and it intercepts spam and [TS]

00:26:43 ◼   ► viruses and bounced email before they [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► get to me there's nothing for me to set [TS]

00:26:47 ◼   ► up the hardware and software all i have [TS]

00:26:49 ◼   ► to do is point my domains MX record [TS]

00:26:51 ◼   ► which is the code that says where's all [TS]

00:26:54 ◼   ► the email to this domain go and it [TS]

00:26:56 ◼   ► pointed mail route mail route takes one [TS]

00:26:58 ◼   ► for the team mail route takes in all the [TS]

00:26:59 ◼   ► bad male that's coming over the internet [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► it uses its really intelligent software [TS]

00:27:03 ◼   ► to filter it identify what's good and [TS]

00:27:05 ◼   ► what's bad [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► the bad stuff gets put in a holding bin [TS]

00:27:07 ◼   ► so if something good does go in there i [TS]

00:27:10 ◼   ► can find out about it and white listed [TS]

00:27:12 ◼   ► and have it sent to me with 1-click [TS]

00:27:14 ◼   ► everything else just passes through as a [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► result my inbox is much cleaner i [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► haven't had to worry about it i don't [TS]

00:27:20 ◼   ► have to run software updates on my spam [TS]

00:27:22 ◼   ► filters or anything at all just happens [TS]

00:27:23 ◼   ► that matter out it's easy to set up its [TS]

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00:28:01 ◼   ► and thank you so much to mail route for [TS]

00:28:03 ◼   ► their support of the incomparable Erica [TS]

00:28:06 ◼   ► do you have a weaving sort of like a [TS]

00:28:08 ◼   ► hate-hate it's a transformed in this [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► round but you don't have to follow that [TS]

00:28:13 ◼   ► i don't i don't know that i have [TS]

00:28:14 ◼   ► anything that i hated this got [TS]

00:28:16 ◼   ► transformed I'm afraid that are not if I [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► hated it I didn't bother to spend time [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► going back [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► it's just i will i'll yeah works but i [TS]

00:28:24 ◼   ► will point out one other reason that the [TS]

00:28:26 ◼   ► assigned reading can be kind of a killer [TS]

00:28:29 ◼   ► just right off the bat and that's for [TS]

00:28:31 ◼   ► for kids like me who I was just I was a [TS]

00:28:34 ◼   ► huge reader from the time that you know [TS]

00:28:36 ◼   ► before kindergarten when I was figuring [TS]

00:28:37 ◼   ► out how to do it so when I got to the [TS]

00:28:39 ◼   ► point where [TS]

00:28:40 ◼   ► suddenly we were being assigned books [TS]

00:28:42 ◼   ► that was taking away reading time from [TS]

00:28:44 ◼   ► the stuff i wanted to reno so fucking [TS]

00:28:46 ◼   ► wet high school road and his enters [TS]

00:28:48 ◼   ► probably simpler stuff than you were [TS]

00:28:50 ◼   ► reading and my son my son goes through [TS]

00:28:51 ◼   ► that my son has a voracious reader and [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► yet [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► and then he complains about assigned [TS]

00:28:55 ◼   ► reading and it's like dude you're being [TS]

00:28:56 ◼   ► assigned reading it's your favorite [TS]

00:28:58 ◼   ► thing and these books that you're being [TS]

00:29:00 ◼   ► a sign our books that are the kind you [TS]

00:29:02 ◼   ► should like and yet he's like I'm and [TS]

00:29:05 ◼   ► it's taking time away from my books I [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► want to read over here and talk exactly [TS]

00:29:08 ◼   ► i had my stack of science fiction and [TS]

00:29:11 ◼   ► fantasy books that you know I at that [TS]

00:29:13 ◼   ► time i was reading The Lord of the Rings [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► every single year and you know it [TS]

00:29:17 ◼   ► I wanted to be able to keep doing that [TS]

00:29:19 ◼   ► means getting more difficult because I [TS]

00:29:20 ◼   ► ended up having to read crap like great [TS]

00:29:22 ◼   ► expectations which I still is still just [TS]

00:29:27 ◼   ► want to shake my fist at that look and [TS]

00:29:29 ◼   ► the movie which we had to watch in [TS]

00:29:30 ◼   ► school and yeah but I just I wanted Miss [TS]

00:29:34 ◼   ► Havisham to just burn to death on you [TS]

00:29:36 ◼   ► know page one and it was great this like [TS]

00:29:39 ◼   ► it's it's the same things like they did [TS]

00:29:41 ◼   ► Romeo and Juliet and they decided that [TS]

00:29:43 ◼   ► they will steal the show us the movie [TS]

00:29:45 ◼   ► because it's like this is almost like [TS]

00:29:46 ◼   ► being at school but not this is [TS]

00:29:48 ◼   ► wonderful but you got to see boobs [TS]

00:29:51 ◼   ► that's right night raid that yeah we [TS]

00:29:53 ◼   ► love the name grain honors honors math [TS]

00:29:55 ◼   ► grade who [TS]

00:29:56 ◼   ► yes yes only the honors kids can see [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► boobs on a civilian Shakespeare's they [TS]

00:30:01 ◼   ► were bosoms not breasts I i think the [TS]

00:30:05 ◼   ► teacher actually took all the boobs but [TS]

00:30:07 ◼   ► it was honors so you know it was obvious [TS]

00:30:10 ◼   ► that it's all it's all for science [TS]

00:30:12 ◼   ► really is great expectations your choice [TS]

00:30:14 ◼   ► by the way or it is that where there's [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► one number two and Google is the [TS]

00:30:19 ◼   ► sparknotes for great so we that that's [TS]

00:30:24 ◼   ► up there although a separate a separate [TS]

00:30:27 ◼   ► piece is our champion right now I think [TS]

00:30:30 ◼   ► Sandra's item in that somebody president [TS]

00:30:32 ◼   ► I i kinda like great expectation when [TS]

00:30:35 ◼   ► did you when did you read it was great [TS]

00:30:36 ◼   ► was that for you i'm going to say my [TS]

00:30:38 ◼   ► senior year of high school [TS]

00:30:40 ◼   ► ya see that was later I might have liked [TS]

00:30:41 ◼   ► it better later this was ninth grade [TS]

00:30:44 ◼   ► yeah also i'm a i'm a i'm a i'm a fast [TS]

00:30:48 ◼   ► reader which is good with dickens [TS]

00:30:50 ◼   ► because he's got a lot of words don't [TS]

00:30:52 ◼   ► know so many we got paid so I them so [TS]

00:30:54 ◼   ► yeah well that's what i wanted to about [TS]

00:30:57 ◼   ► Dickens I I don't love it i think i [TS]

00:31:01 ◼   ► think it goes down easy [TS]

00:31:02 ◼   ► I i think his style is is kind of [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► entertaining and breezy but it is so [TS]

00:31:07 ◼   ► circuitous and at at several points and [TS]

00:31:09 ◼   ► reading get great expectations I was [TS]

00:31:11 ◼   ► like hey wait a minute [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► like what it what you tryin to say like [TS]

00:31:15 ◼   ► I even even as a high schooler I I kind [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► of couldn't buy all the coincidences and [TS]

00:31:21 ◼   ► things that would happen in these in [TS]

00:31:23 ◼   ► these books but it was for me it was [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► easy to read so I I you know I it was [TS]

00:31:27 ◼   ► not a battle like some assigned reading [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► to read it it's not politically even [TS]

00:31:30 ◼   ► though I didn't you know I didn't love [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► it I thought it was you know it was fine [TS]

00:31:34 ◼   ► i think for me the problem with it and [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► many of these other books that I hated [TS]

00:31:37 ◼   ► so much was I when i'm consuming any [TS]

00:31:39 ◼   ► kind of media whether it be a book or [TS]

00:31:41 ◼   ► movie or TV show i like to have somebody [TS]

00:31:43 ◼   ► to root for and I just didn't like [TS]

00:31:45 ◼   ► anybody in a lot of these books whether [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► it was because their life was so vastly [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► different from mine and a character [TS]

00:31:51 ◼   ► wasn't written well enough to to be able [TS]

00:31:53 ◼   ► to convey any of the emotion that will [TS]

00:31:55 ◼   ► connect me to that that person or if it [TS]

00:31:58 ◼   ► was just because they were you know kind [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► of useless and making lots of poor [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► choices like paper and great [TS]

00:32:03 ◼   ► expectations so I think I was smarter [TS]

00:32:05 ◼   ► than some of the characters i was [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► reading in that I also important update [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► from the chatroom AF Waller tells the [TS]

00:32:11 ◼   ► story that they not only did they see [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► the scene with Romeo and Juliet with [TS]

00:32:15 ◼   ► boobs they saw it twice by lying to the [TS]

00:32:18 ◼   ► teacher about where they left off work [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► and waller comes up [TS]

00:32:24 ◼   ► okay i'm gonna i'm gonna pick something [TS]

00:32:26 ◼   ► and this is this gonna be love a love [TS]

00:32:28 ◼   ► hate story of a different sort one of my [TS]

00:32:30 ◼   ► assigned readings in i'm going to say my [TS]

00:32:32 ◼   ► junior in high school was the Red Badge [TS]

00:32:34 ◼   ► of Courage by Stephen Crane yes which is [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► a a civil war tail and i believe the [TS]

00:32:45 ◼   ► lines I I don't think this is actually [TS]

00:32:46 ◼   ► the book i think we summarize the style [TS]

00:32:48 ◼   ► of the book by by saying the youth ran [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► hither and thither because there was a [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► lot of running hitter and [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► there and it was always featuring the [TS]

00:32:57 ◼   ► youth I did not like the Red Badge of [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► Courage I thought it was weirdly written [TS]

00:33:03 ◼   ► it's short it's got that going for it [TS]

00:33:05 ◼   ► but but as a as a civil war tail I [TS]

00:33:09 ◼   ► didn't connect to it i thought his style [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► was really annoying my love story here [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► is that I really kind of love stephen [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► crane's poetry and i'm not a big poetry [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► person but i found a book of stephen [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► crane's poetry and it's great it's dark [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► and weird and mostly doesn't rhyme all [TS]

00:33:26 ◼   ► these things work for me when it comes [TS]

00:33:28 ◼   ► to poetry i really like it a lot but Red [TS]

00:33:30 ◼   ► Badge of Courage bug it's just I I feel [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► like it was assigned because it's like [TS]

00:33:35 ◼   ► well it's simple its American literature [TS]

00:33:37 ◼   ► its civil war [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► alright well we'll just assign revenge [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► courage it fits checks on the boxes like [TS]

00:33:43 ◼   ► yeah but it's really not very good [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► it's I I mean I appreciate that it's a [TS]

00:33:49 ◼   ► historical you know it's from somebody [TS]

00:33:51 ◼   ► in the period writing about it but no no [TS]

00:33:54 ◼   ► it's not good but and yellow stephen [TS]

00:33:56 ◼   ► crane's poetry so that's my love my love [TS]

00:33:58 ◼   ► him there were other there were other [TS]

00:34:00 ◼   ► kids in my high school who had to read [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► that because like I depending on the [TS]

00:34:03 ◼   ► teacher but I I was not in a class that [TS]

00:34:05 ◼   ► had to read that so I feel like I dodged [TS]

00:34:07 ◼   ► a civil war bullet and the hidden chat [TS]

00:34:09 ◼   ► room by the way is is celebrating now [TS]

00:34:11 ◼   ► because I i have i have nailed his is a [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► least favorite book of all time with the [TS]

00:34:16 ◼   ► Red Badge of Courage so if I did that [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► one for you [TS]

00:34:19 ◼   ► i I II and III the youth friend Heather [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► Heather and the other hitter in the [TS]

00:34:22 ◼   ► other there's so much the ring and hit [TS]

00:34:25 ◼   ► me in that book it is just visiting and [TS]

00:34:27 ◼   ► deterring ya know we are our high school [TS]

00:34:30 ◼   ► the the english and history worked [TS]

00:34:33 ◼   ► hand-in-hand because it was an open [TS]

00:34:36 ◼   ► space a design of a school so we had [TS]

00:34:40 ◼   ► these giant open areas and you would [TS]

00:34:43 ◼   ► have three classes in the same general [TS]

00:34:46 ◼   ► area no walls and you'd have your [TS]

00:34:48 ◼   ► english and history period smashed [TS]

00:34:51 ◼   ► together so sometimes you could do a [TS]

00:34:53 ◼   ► giant group to period thing or you can [TS]

00:34:56 ◼   ► just have your separate classes you know [TS]

00:34:58 ◼   ► just depending on what was that week and [TS]

00:35:00 ◼   ► so all of the books were you know tied [TS]

00:35:04 ◼   ► to whatever we were doing in history [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► oh yeah Red Badge of Courage presently [TS]

00:35:09 ◼   ► men were running hither and thither and [TS]

00:35:11 ◼   ► always be all the artillery booming [TS]

00:35:13 ◼   ► forward rearward and on the flanks made [TS]

00:35:15 ◼   ► jumble of ideas of direction i'm just [TS]

00:35:18 ◼   ► looking for a hitter a better number two [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► on google is sparknotes for Red Badge of [TS]

00:35:25 ◼   ► Courage right after wikipedia says hi a [TS]

00:35:27 ◼   ► high score of people who just want to [TS]

00:35:30 ◼   ► know what the hell was in that book they [TS]

00:35:31 ◼   ► don't want to read [TS]

00:35:32 ◼   ► I think that's telling maybe go a little [TS]

00:35:35 ◼   ► bit positive David you have something [TS]

00:35:37 ◼   ► positive to say about assigned reading [TS]

00:35:39 ◼   ► well I I'll do two at once ok there are [TS]

00:35:43 ◼   ► only two books there are no rules here [TS]

00:35:44 ◼   ► go ahead and i don't know let's let's [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► just say you know because because our [TS]

00:35:49 ◼   ► high school was a seven through 12 1 so [TS]

00:35:51 ◼   ► in six years there were two books that i [TS]

00:35:54 ◼   ► liked right off the bat and and [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► surprised me [TS]

00:35:57 ◼   ► one was to kill a mockingbird uh-huh [TS]

00:36:00 ◼   ► the other was the great gatsby this is [TS]

00:36:04 ◼   ► SB this is a book that with my wife and [TS]

00:36:06 ◼   ► I have you know she hates it she hates [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► everything about it she hates ok give [TS]

00:36:11 ◼   ► you a wife a fist bump for me this time [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► and also I don't like the story but i [TS]

00:36:17 ◼   ► but i like his writing I like yeah I [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► like some of his other stories better i [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► love the Pat hobby stories about life in [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► Hollywood [TS]

00:36:26 ◼   ► I i went on a Fitzgerald bender after [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► reading the great gatsby that Fitzgerald [TS]

00:36:30 ◼   ► bender could also mean an actual bender [TS]

00:36:33 ◼   ► but that you would be good name to move [TS]

00:36:36 ◼   ► its to Fitzgerald bender i love getting [TS]

00:36:39 ◼   ► babies and ghastly was on my list of [TS]

00:36:41 ◼   ► ones that I was gonna I was going to [TS]

00:36:43 ◼   ► bring up as a as as something that I [TS]

00:36:44 ◼   ► liked III and yes you there is there is [TS]

00:36:48 ◼   ► that aspect of the symbolism right over [TS]

00:36:51 ◼   ► the eyes the eyes is teaching you know [TS]

00:36:54 ◼   ► but but it means he's his style is great [TS]

00:36:57 ◼   ► i really appreciated the pro-style of ya [TS]

00:36:59 ◼   ► Fitzgerald and Gatsby and it was one of [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► those moments of like I'm actually [TS]

00:37:03 ◼   ► enjoying reading the assigned reading [TS]

00:37:05 ◼   ► what is happening exactly [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► absolutely absolutely correct and this [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► the story i don't i don't know how much [TS]

00:37:11 ◼   ► I like it but I just remember this [TS]

00:37:13 ◼   ► reading I did [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► I didn't have to read that in school I [TS]

00:37:16 ◼   ► bread it later but just the words though [TS]

00:37:19 ◼   ► and the way he's putting this together [TS]

00:37:20 ◼   ► and I felt like I felt funny just now to [TS]

00:37:24 ◼   ► like do a google search and look at the [TS]

00:37:26 ◼   ► let the the lead you talk about great [TS]

00:37:28 ◼   ► first pages that's because probably the [TS]

00:37:31 ◼   ► greatest last page ever all i really [TS]

00:37:34 ◼   ► feel the need to redo 3 flat 3 [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► paragraphs not even less for last 3 and [TS]

00:37:40 ◼   ► as I SAT there brooding on the old [TS]

00:37:42 ◼   ► unknown world I thought of Gatsby's [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► wonder when he first picked up the green [TS]

00:37:45 ◼   ► light at the end of Daisy's dock he had [TS]

00:37:47 ◼   ► come a long way to this blue lon and the [TS]

00:37:50 ◼   ► stream must have seemed so close that he [TS]

00:37:51 ◼   ► could hardly fail to grasp but he did [TS]

00:37:54 ◼   ► not know that was already behind him [TS]

00:37:55 ◼   ► somewhere back in that vast obscurity [TS]

00:37:58 ◼   ► beyond the city where the dark fields of [TS]

00:38:00 ◼   ► the Republic rolled on under the night [TS]

00:38:02 ◼   ► gets be believed in the green light the [TS]

00:38:05 ◼   ► orgastic future that year after year [TS]

00:38:07 ◼   ► recedes before us it eluded us then but [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► that's no matter tomorrow we will run [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► faster stretch out our arms farther and [TS]

00:38:15 ◼   ► one fine morning so we beat on boats [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► against the current borne back [TS]

00:38:20 ◼   ► ceaselessly ceaselessly into the past [TS]

00:38:22 ◼   ► and I can't think of many last pages i [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► just re-read as haha i reread the great [TS]

00:38:29 ◼   ► gatsby maybe once or twice a year [TS]

00:38:31 ◼   ► because for those there maybe a dozen [TS]

00:38:33 ◼   ► books that are just always on my iPad [TS]

00:38:35 ◼   ► because of I'll have booked some new [TS]

00:38:37 ◼   ► books i'm reading but I always maybe [TS]

00:38:38 ◼   ► want to dip into an old one but i can't [TS]

00:38:40 ◼   ► think without one where I just want to [TS]

00:38:42 ◼   ► read that last couple pages over and [TS]

00:38:45 ◼   ► over and over again it's intimate if [TS]

00:38:46 ◼   ► you're a writer it is intimidating to [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► see how good those words are wow i have [TS]

00:38:53 ◼   ► i have gets beyond my my thumbs down [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► list and hearing you read those [TS]

00:38:57 ◼   ► paragraphs reminds me why beautiful like [TS]

00:39:00 ◼   ► just it is not a stylet I mean it's just [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► like you know some people like to talk [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► just to hear the sound of their own [TS]

00:39:05 ◼   ► voice I feel like he was writing just to [TS]

00:39:07 ◼   ► hear the sound of his own words that is [TS]

00:39:09 ◼   ► exactly what my wife said this morning [TS]

00:39:11 ◼   ► alright she's like oh tell them i hated [TS]

00:39:15 ◼   ► gets back okay what happened how many [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► times have I have I read a [TS]

00:39:18 ◼   ► science-fiction book where while my god [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► that story is so intricate and the [TS]

00:39:23 ◼   ► science is so clever [TS]

00:39:25 ◼   ► but all my god put five words together [TS]

00:39:28 ◼   ► that make any sort of music please just [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► once this entire book and then the [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► captain put paint on the ship but the [TS]

00:39:36 ◼   ► pain was a different paint like oh for [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► God's sake [TS]

00:39:39 ◼   ► actually that's how I felt about doing [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► love the story but I couldn't get past [TS]

00:39:42 ◼   ► the press yeah can I can to do is I I so [TS]

00:39:45 ◼   ► I like the pro style of Gatsby I totally [TS]

00:39:48 ◼   ► I totally get where you're coming from [TS]

00:39:49 ◼   ► but I Erica but I I do like it [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► one of the things that I think struck me [TS]

00:39:54 ◼   ► at reading gatsby assigned reading was [TS]

00:39:58 ◼   ► the idea it i don't know who is the [TS]

00:40:02 ◼   ► first book but it's solidified in me [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► this and the fact that the narrator is [TS]

00:40:06 ◼   ► not Gatsby and that were observing [TS]

00:40:09 ◼   ► Gatsby and his and his story that really [TS]

00:40:12 ◼   ► struck me as about understanding about [TS]

00:40:14 ◼   ► perspective and seeing the the you know [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► the i guess you could say most important [TS]

00:40:20 ◼   ► character in the book is is seen from [TS]

00:40:23 ◼   ► someone else's perspective i just i [TS]

00:40:25 ◼   ► remember that really struck me at the [TS]

00:40:26 ◼   ► time like oh you could do that you think [TS]

00:40:28 ◼   ► that's a serious look at me just like [TS]

00:40:30 ◼   ► they'll allow you to do that yeah I mean [TS]

00:40:33 ◼   ► it's called the great gatsby but great [TS]

00:40:34 ◼   ► there but the Great Gatsby himself is [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► not the narrator there's a different guy [TS]

00:40:38 ◼   ► who's a narrator is kind of like on the [TS]

00:40:40 ◼   ► outside observing what's happening on a [TS]

00:40:43 ◼   ► whoa oh you know it maybe maybe my [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► biggest problem with it was just the [TS]

00:40:48 ◼   ► fact that there were no wizards or [TS]

00:40:49 ◼   ► dragons are spaceships or Reagan's [TS]

00:40:51 ◼   ► helicopter that is true the is though [TS]

00:40:55 ◼   ► the eyes it was almost called Trimalchio [TS]

00:40:57 ◼   ► in West Egg which almost sounds like [TS]

00:40:59 ◼   ► science fiction [TS]

00:41:00 ◼   ► yeah that listed that would've well [TS]

00:41:03 ◼   ► that's so bad [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► ya know that cover could work for a [TS]

00:41:06 ◼   ► bunch of science fiction stories though [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► that's true that there was one of a [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► handful of truly iconic book covers [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► where you kind of can't publish this [TS]

00:41:14 ◼   ► book without that cover so David did you [TS]

00:41:16 ◼   ► turn you threw in to kill a mockingbird [TS]

00:41:17 ◼   ► there is room to China which is I also [TS]

00:41:21 ◼   ► really liked [TS]

00:41:22 ◼   ► I you know I didn't want to read it was [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► not something that was remotely [TS]

00:41:26 ◼   ► interesting very few spaceships and that [TS]

00:41:28 ◼   ► and you know but everyone i started i [TS]

00:41:30 ◼   ► started skimming it because it's great [TS]

00:41:32 ◼   ► need to be able to talk about in class [TS]

00:41:34 ◼   ► and then I kept reading because the [TS]

00:41:36 ◼   ► writing was so good and you know maybe [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► it could have been shorter i often feel [TS]

00:41:43 ◼   ► that but I man he was just I couldn't [TS]

00:41:46 ◼   ► put it down once i started actually [TS]

00:41:48 ◼   ► reading it and I went back and read the [TS]

00:41:50 ◼   ► parts that i had skimmed because like [TS]

00:41:52 ◼   ► RNA i missed stuff so maybe I didn't [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► read it in the right order but oh so [TS]

00:41:58 ◼   ► where does where do i gets be and and to [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► kill a mockingbird show up on her or [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► what is it what's that website again I'd [TS]

00:42:06 ◼   ► forgotten the name of the weird one [TS]

00:42:07 ◼   ► already [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► snoop snoop choose before so we'll call [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► this the segment Erica now this segment [TS]

00:42:12 ◼   ► is called snoop watch [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► let's go to watch out for the smooth [TS]

00:42:16 ◼   ► much for your great gatsby great gatsby [TS]

00:42:19 ◼   ► number three on sparknotes number three [TS]

00:42:23 ◼   ► is spark notes on the associated with [TS]

00:42:25 ◼   ► wade and we're sorry scoop no luck for [TS]

00:42:28 ◼   ► you [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► I think it speaks well of know you're [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► smooth for yash before you kill a [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► mockingbird let's see where it ranks to [TS]

00:42:38 ◼   ► kill a mockingbird number two number two [TS]

00:42:40 ◼   ► Spartans a little a little harder to get [TS]

00:42:43 ◼   ► through i guess the Gatsby that's it is [TS]

00:42:46 ◼   ► longer totally scientific this this what [TS]

00:42:49 ◼   ► we're doing here totally scientific he [TS]

00:42:50 ◼   ► did you have a thing you would like to [TS]

00:42:52 ◼   ► speak positively of that wasn't yeah I [TS]

00:42:55 ◼   ► had to picked out of that for all these [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► I really assiduously tried not to do a [TS]

00:43:00 ◼   ► web search for what kind of books tend [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► to be assigned in English class i can't [TS]

00:43:04 ◼   ► remember stuff and I was i decided to [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► keep quiet when erica was picking great [TS]

00:43:08 ◼   ► expectations because a great [TS]

00:43:10 ◼   ► expectations is on my positive list i [TS]

00:43:12 ◼   ► have so many so many positive memories [TS]

00:43:15 ◼   ► of this book and one of the reasons why [TS]

00:43:17 ◼   ► I like it so much was the way that it [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► had been written that this is designed [TS]

00:43:21 ◼   ► to be episodic to try to get cheated by [TS]

00:43:23 ◼   ► the next installment of this which kind [TS]

00:43:26 ◼   ► of prevents an author from getting into [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► the wait a minute i need to go back to [TS]

00:43:30 ◼   ► chapter one and described the Rope again [TS]

00:43:32 ◼   ► because i do I don't think they'll get [TS]

00:43:34 ◼   ► their next when I say the word rope [TS]

00:43:36 ◼   ► I actually mean dreams it'sit's [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► but more than that but more than that [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► let me tell you something about really [TS]

00:43:44 ◼   ► great writing every time I'm like at a [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► friend's house or I'm and i hope to bury [TS]

00:43:50 ◼   ► a man hotel and the the soap that they [TS]

00:43:53 ◼   ► give you is like heavily perfumed every [TS]

00:43:56 ◼   ► single time I'm washing my hands and [TS]

00:43:58 ◼   ► this perfume from the soap it's my face [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► i always think of that scene from great [TS]

00:44:02 ◼   ► expectations where Mr Jagger's the [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► lawyer washing his hands every time he [TS]

00:44:07 ◼   ► sees a client specifically with perfume [TS]

00:44:09 ◼   ► so because it is such an evocative way [TS]

00:44:13 ◼   ► that he described this the scenes within [TS]

00:44:15 ◼   ► miss havesham's house with the moldering [TS]

00:44:18 ◼   ► wedding cake on the table still set for [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► her wedding party [TS]

00:44:21 ◼   ► I just have such a crystal-clear image [TS]

00:44:24 ◼   ► of what that place looked like and I'd [TS]

00:44:27 ◼   ► have to it's actually been a number of [TS]

00:44:29 ◼   ► years since the last time I read it I [TS]

00:44:31 ◼   ► did read it once or twice since 10th [TS]

00:44:34 ◼   ► grade or ninth grade wherever whenever I [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► was supposed to read it but there it I'd [TS]

00:44:38 ◼   ► just remember all of these evocative [TS]

00:44:41 ◼   ► scenes that just got me so engrossed in [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► this story that got me to the next one [TS]

00:44:45 ◼   ► the next one that I just remember being [TS]

00:44:48 ◼   ► a really pleasant experience it for a [TS]

00:44:50 ◼   ► long it was a long book for for high [TS]

00:44:52 ◼   ► school but I just remember just being a [TS]

00:44:55 ◼   ► book that I quickly found myself reading [TS]

00:44:57 ◼   ► just for pleasure just on that stack of [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► books on my nightstand [TS]

00:45:00 ◼   ► yes the I I couldn't get through Dickens [TS]

00:45:02 ◼   ► I I kept trying and trying because it [TS]

00:45:05 ◼   ► there I i was interested in a girl who [TS]

00:45:07 ◼   ► loved Charles Dickens and you know and [TS]

00:45:11 ◼   ► especially christmas carol i hated [TS]

00:45:13 ◼   ► Christmas care [TS]

00:45:14 ◼   ► oh yeah we're so up we were so upset [TS]

00:45:16 ◼   ► that well no wait wait wait wait I hated [TS]

00:45:20 ◼   ► it at the time it wasn't until Patrick [TS]

00:45:22 ◼   ► Stewart's one man christmas carol that [TS]

00:45:24 ◼   ► suddenly it came alive for me and I and [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► and I really enjoy it because he does it [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► straight from the text is it's not an [TS]

00:45:30 ◼   ► adaptation it's not well actually [TS]

00:45:33 ◼   ► actually it is he do have to prove that [TS]

00:45:35 ◼   ► the game has ever hurt them [TS]

00:45:37 ◼   ► it's trimmed but it's but he's not [TS]

00:45:38 ◼   ► changing the words of the dialogue [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► raining that all of the words are [TS]

00:45:41 ◼   ► Dickens's words and if it was just [TS]

00:45:46 ◼   ► lovely and i went back and read it with [TS]

00:45:48 ◼   ► his voice in my head [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► and and it was lovely and then I went [TS]

00:45:52 ◼   ► back and said all right well maybe I'll [TS]

00:45:53 ◼   ► try something that I still can't get [TS]

00:45:55 ◼   ► through them but you're right hey we [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► don't have to wait that's it we're not [TS]

00:45:59 ◼   ► seeking a record here we everybody has [TS]

00:46:02 ◼   ► their own views i think it's interesting [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► when somebody like something that [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► somebody else doesn't like because then [TS]

00:46:07 ◼   ► we know why i was assigned yeah that's [TS]

00:46:11 ◼   ► true i like some of these where we are [TS]

00:46:13 ◼   ► baffled Erica do you have a thing you [TS]

00:46:17 ◼   ► wanted to say nice things about yes i [TS]

00:46:20 ◼   ► have i have so many nice things to say [TS]

00:46:22 ◼   ► about a book that was it was assigned to [TS]

00:46:24 ◼   ► us in seventh grade and everybody else [TS]

00:46:27 ◼   ► hated this book with a passion except [TS]

00:46:30 ◼   ► for me and my friend Mike to people who [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► had been reading geeky stuff for many [TS]

00:46:33 ◼   ► years already and that is Ursula K Le [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► Guin's a wizard of Earthsea yes I had [TS]

00:46:39 ◼   ► died never heard of it before but when i [TS]

00:46:40 ◼   ► came home with that my parents were like [TS]

00:46:42 ◼   ► oh my god you're reading Ursula K Le [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► Guin you have the best teacher ever [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► and I was like okay well this gives me [TS]

00:46:47 ◼   ► hope so I cracked it open and it was [TS]

00:46:49 ◼   ► just this amazing story of a boy wizard [TS]

00:46:52 ◼   ► going away to wizard school and getting [TS]

00:46:55 ◼   ► into a duel with a fellow wizard where [TS]

00:46:57 ◼   ► he accidentally sort of cracks open the [TS]

00:46:59 ◼   ► fabric of reality and let the shadow out [TS]

00:47:01 ◼   ► and then has to deal with the fact of [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► this shadow being in the world for the [TS]

00:47:05 ◼   ► rest of his life until he can figure out [TS]

00:47:07 ◼   ► how to how to handle that and it was [TS]

00:47:09 ◼   ► just so many things that were up my [TS]

00:47:11 ◼   ► alley but written in I mean it was it [TS]

00:47:14 ◼   ► was a book that was I don't know if it [TS]

00:47:15 ◼   ► was exactly aimed at at kids but it was [TS]

00:47:18 ◼   ► it was very simple but it wasn't written [TS]

00:47:20 ◼   ► like a kids book that was written at the [TS]

00:47:23 ◼   ► time that i was reading it because this [TS]

00:47:25 ◼   ► thing was was from 1968 so so much much [TS]

00:47:28 ◼   ► older but it was it was it was like [TS]

00:47:30 ◼   ► written as a kids book that didn't talk [TS]

00:47:33 ◼   ► down to us and I think that was the [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► problem that a lot of the other kids in [TS]

00:47:36 ◼   ► my school had because some of them were [TS]

00:47:38 ◼   ► the brightest bulbs and they struggled [TS]

00:47:40 ◼   ► but man i just got totally wrapped up in [TS]

00:47:43 ◼   ► it i immediately went out and made my [TS]

00:47:44 ◼   ► parents get me the rest of the books in [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► the series and have read the multiple [TS]

00:47:48 ◼   ► times since then so I say a huge thanks [TS]

00:47:51 ◼   ► to my seventh grade English teacher [TS]

00:47:52 ◼   ► whose name I've forgotten but thanks [TS]

00:47:54 ◼   ► anyway lady shmoop check by the way [TS]

00:47:59 ◼   ► shmoop wins on this one fourth is a [TS]

00:48:02 ◼   ► schmoo play [TS]

00:48:03 ◼   ► to visit the best investment nobody i'm [TS]

00:48:06 ◼   ► saying that right in the ship moop it's [TS]

00:48:09 ◼   ► probably scoop anyways moving on what [TS]

00:48:11 ◼   ► are the other ones above shmoop though [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► everything else and ok and wikipedia [TS]

00:48:17 ◼   ► yeah I I always loved her work i went [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► every year we got to pick one book and [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► just you know read whatever we wanted [TS]

00:48:24 ◼   ► and report on it and you know you the [TS]

00:48:26 ◼   ► teachers would just sort of read it and [TS]

00:48:28 ◼   ► go yeah he read the book a and one year [TS]

00:48:32 ◼   ► I picked her book always coming home [TS]

00:48:34 ◼   ► which if you don't know it it's [TS]

00:48:37 ◼   ► wonderful it's it's like it's not [TS]

00:48:40 ◼   ► exactly a novel it's like part novel [TS]

00:48:43 ◼   ► part anthropological study of this [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► culture that and I have to get the quote [TS]

00:48:48 ◼   ► right might be going to have lived a [TS]

00:48:51 ◼   ► long long time from now in Northern [TS]

00:48:54 ◼   ► California and it's lovely because [TS]

00:48:57 ◼   ► because it's it's a great act of world [TS]

00:48:59 ◼   ► mad world building where it you know [TS]

00:49:03 ◼   ► she's presenting the culture and the [TS]

00:49:05 ◼   ► science and and you know how they [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► evolved and how their their society and [TS]

00:49:09 ◼   ► it was lovely and afterwards the teacher [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► came back to me like three months later [TS]

00:49:14 ◼   ► and said you know I picked that book up [TS]

00:49:16 ◼   ► because it sounded really interesting [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► that's really good i went on that I had [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► never read that one but but after [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► reading those books i went on just a [TS]

00:49:25 ◼   ► tarot reading all of her books i could [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► get my hands on [TS]

00:49:27 ◼   ► luckily there were quite a few in my [TS]

00:49:28 ◼   ► parents basement already so many easy [TS]

00:49:30 ◼   ► and then I actually get to meet her she [TS]

00:49:32 ◼   ► came and did our reading at a little [TS]

00:49:34 ◼   ► cafe bar that friend my parents owned in [TS]

00:49:38 ◼   ► the fort atkinson Wisconsin of all [TS]

00:49:39 ◼   ► places and and she was just delightful [TS]

00:49:42 ◼   ► and lovely and she signed her books and [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► it was it was a very exciting time for [TS]

00:49:46 ◼   ► me as a youngster very nice my I haven't [TS]

00:49:50 ◼   ► read percy left hand of darkness was my [TS]

00:49:52 ◼   ► look when that i read which I don't [TS]

00:49:55 ◼   ► think was assigned I don't think so but [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► it's possible it was I don't think I [TS]

00:50:00 ◼   ► don't think so though they're doing an [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► adaptation of that on BBC radio right [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► now I'm going to throw out at all so [TS]

00:50:08 ◼   ► this is in you knew this was going to [TS]

00:50:09 ◼   ► happen these are the things that are [TS]

00:50:11 ◼   ► like just close enough to the science [TS]

00:50:13 ◼   ► fiction genre that you latch onto it you [TS]

00:50:15 ◼   ► say nothing [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► yes i like that yes i will read that [TS]

00:50:19 ◼   ► slaughterhouse five [TS]

00:50:21 ◼   ► yeah I i really like kurt vonnegut I've [TS]

00:50:25 ◼   ► read a lot of vonnegut not all but a lot [TS]

00:50:28 ◼   ► I enjoy slaughterhouse-five a great deal [TS]

00:50:32 ◼   ► um I may be my favorite of we-we-we red [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► cat's cradle to which I don't which I [TS]

00:50:38 ◼   ► find a little off-putting [TS]

00:50:39 ◼   ► yeah but slaughterhouse-five is is just [TS]

00:50:42 ◼   ► so great and and let's be honest here [TS]

00:50:44 ◼   ► every movie or TV writer and probably a [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► lot of novelists in the science fiction [TS]

00:50:49 ◼   ► genre in the last 50 years have [TS]

00:50:52 ◼   ► endlessly ripped off the conceit of [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► slaughterhouse five people for their I [TS]

00:50:57 ◼   ► mean it'sit's lake and you either do [TS]

00:50:59 ◼   ► your christmas carol episode for you do [TS]

00:51:03 ◼   ► your unstuck in time episode that choice [TS]

00:51:05 ◼   ► is a dickens you're gonna get you choose [TS]

00:51:08 ◼   ► or your shaman episode yeah that's true [TS]

00:51:11 ◼   ► well then you throw that in there and i [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► was going to say you could also it could [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► also be your um I the the Christmas [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► genre starts with a christmas carol but [TS]

00:51:21 ◼   ► it goes off to it's a wonderful life [TS]

00:51:23 ◼   ► which is solved itself kind of a spin on [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► the Christmas carols so anyway sorry has [TS]

00:51:29 ◼   ► five so great it is about world war two [TS]

00:51:32 ◼   ► it is about the firebombing of Dresden [TS]

00:51:33 ◼   ► it is also about strange aliens from [TS]

00:51:35 ◼   ► planet travel family door and there and [TS]

00:51:39 ◼   ► they view time differently and billy [TS]

00:51:41 ◼   ► pilgrim becomes unstuck in time and the [TS]

00:51:42 ◼   ► book is told in a in this kaleidoscopic [TS]

00:51:45 ◼   ► time sequence which you know i guess [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► i'll also put a Quentin Tarantino down [TS]

00:51:52 ◼   ► on the list for like what we do the [TS]

00:51:55 ◼   ► narrative anyway we can't we just picked [TS]

00:51:57 ◼   ► up the times people figure it out maybe [TS]

00:51:58 ◼   ► but it's but i really do i I you know it [TS]

00:52:02 ◼   ► is i can appreciate this literature i [TS]

00:52:04 ◼   ► can appreciate it as a great style and [TS]

00:52:07 ◼   ► and also just as a really entertaining [TS]

00:52:10 ◼   ► book entertaining ride so I like wanna [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► get in general but that one in [TS]

00:52:16 ◼   ► particular and there was that moment of [TS]

00:52:17 ◼   ► like oh my god there's like time travel [TS]

00:52:19 ◼   ► and aliens and stuff innocent and they [TS]

00:52:21 ◼   ► made us read it what's the best how you [TS]

00:52:23 ◼   ► you're lucky we didn't have to read any [TS]

00:52:26 ◼   ► vonnegut although i was thinking about [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► this when David was mentioning reading a [TS]

00:52:29 ◼   ► book for fun to do but to also do a [TS]

00:52:31 ◼   ► report on that he got to choose and I [TS]

00:52:33 ◼   ► had a friend who had read breakfast of [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► champions in ninth grade to do a book [TS]

00:52:38 ◼   ► report on and he told me that it was by [TS]

00:52:40 ◼   ► far the worst book he had ever read it [TS]

00:52:42 ◼   ► was terrible and so of course I was like [TS]

00:52:44 ◼   ► it can't be that bad I have to read this [TS]

00:52:46 ◼   ► and see if it's terrible and I adored it [TS]

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00:52:52 ◼   ► through and read i think most of the [TS]

00:52:54 ◼   ► rest of his works at that time and i [TS]

00:52:57 ◼   ► think i came to slaughterhouse-five a [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► little bit late so I was kind of at the [TS]

00:53:00 ◼   ► end of my intense love affair with his [TS]

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00:53:04 ◼   ► the sirens of titan was my favorite of [TS]

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00:53:07 ◼   ► yeah we had we had slaughterhouse-five [TS]

00:53:10 ◼   ► like you could you could go through the [TS]

00:53:12 ◼   ► lingua Sharia zand and open up the [TS]

00:53:15 ◼   ► cabinets and sea stacks of books and I [TS]

00:53:17 ◼   ► had you know 1984 and slaughterhouse [TS]

00:53:19 ◼   ► five and fahrenheit 451 and they never [TS]

00:53:22 ◼   ► assigned any of them in the six years I [TS]

00:53:24 ◼   ► was there and it drove me nuts because [TS]

00:53:27 ◼   ► these are good [TS]

00:53:28 ◼   ► come on yeah and I quite liked cats [TS]

00:53:31 ◼   ► cradle i'm going to put it a thumbs up [TS]

00:53:33 ◼   ► for that one my family actually listened [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► to the audiobook version of that on the [TS]

00:53:36 ◼   ► way to Florida for Christmas vacation [TS]

00:53:38 ◼   ► that's the kind of nerdy family I got it [TS]

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00:54:46 ◼   ► Squarespace is introduced a new feature [TS]

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00:56:00 ◼   ► draft that has gone on for three rounds [TS]

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00:56:05 ◼   ► other things I've got like four or five [TS]

00:56:07 ◼   ► things laying here that I didn't get a [TS]

00:56:08 ◼   ► chance to mention let's get them out [TS]

00:56:10 ◼   ► before we before we say goodbye so David [TS]

00:56:13 ◼   ► what do you have left [TS]

00:56:15 ◼   ► well I've got the the complete works of [TS]

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00:56:20 ◼   ► love it or hate it [TS]

00:56:21 ◼   ► yeah it right through that and the [TS]

00:56:25 ◼   ► crucible not i'm not a big fan of the [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► crucible not a fan of the crucible that [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► was that was the worst 10 slaughterhouse [TS]

00:56:31 ◼   ► five by the way in the schmoop shmoop [TS]

00:56:32 ◼   ► watch a slaughterhouse five sparknotes [TS]

00:56:35 ◼   ► comes up fourth in the search for [TS]

00:56:37 ◼   ► slaughterhouse-five so pretty good bad [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► good job [TS]

00:56:39 ◼   ► it's a junker funny guys did I grew up [TS]

00:56:42 ◼   ► in a very poor like part of town that I [TS]

00:56:44 ◼   ► was buying monarch notes not sparknotes [TS]

00:56:46 ◼   ► the cliff notes without like that they [TS]

00:56:48 ◼   ► came [TS]

00:56:48 ◼   ► version of the notes i I've never heard [TS]

00:56:51 ◼   ► of mykenae is there I i think they [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► vanished i don't know what happened to [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► them I'm islaam there there there yeah [TS]

00:56:57 ◼   ► we got those yeah they're still around [TS]

00:56:59 ◼   ► yeah but yeah pretty much all the rest [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► of minor or hate them so you know the [TS]

00:57:04 ◼   ► crucible the human comedy by William [TS]

00:57:08 ◼   ► Saroyan I I really reacted badly to the [TS]

00:57:12 ◼   ► the heartwarming slices of Americana [TS]

00:57:15 ◼   ► books [TS]

00:57:16 ◼   ► yeah how'd you feel about our town i'm [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► ok with it after we produced it I hated [TS]

00:57:23 ◼   ► reading it [TS]

00:57:24 ◼   ► we didn't produce it out here at the [TS]

00:57:26 ◼   ► college a couple years ago it was [TS]

00:57:27 ◼   ► slightly differently and it was really [TS]

00:57:29 ◼   ► nice [TS]

00:57:30 ◼   ► it's long it could be shorter again but [TS]

00:57:36 ◼   ► but but i like it because it's it's dark [TS]

00:57:38 ◼   ► we found the the sort of dark it's not [TS]

00:57:40 ◼   ► it's not sweetheart for me the same way [TS]

00:57:43 ◼   ► Serena Serena is just goop movement on [TS]

00:57:48 ◼   ► and they made us read Siddhartha by [TS]

00:57:52 ◼   ► Hermann Hesse which I hated so much I [TS]

00:57:55 ◼   ► title because we had to write an essay [TS]

00:57:57 ◼   ► after each one is a was titled own is [TS]

00:58:00 ◼   ► where city's heart is and the it was the [TS]

00:58:03 ◼   ► only SI i did not get a perfect score on [TS]

00:58:05 ◼   ► a pretty much because of the title [TS]

00:58:07 ◼   ► that's that sounds like what you're here [TS]

00:58:11 ◼   ► at the end of a political episode 2 next [TS]

00:58:12 ◼   ► week fall apart as the guy who wrote all [TS]

00:58:17 ◼   ► those all those terrible puns and all [TS]

00:58:19 ◼   ► the incomparable radio theatre scripts [TS]

00:58:20 ◼   ► it's I know it was shared so early [TS]

00:58:23 ◼   ► Friday but they were i hope so messed up [TS]

00:58:25 ◼   ► so yeah it was the dog museum it was the [TS]

00:58:29 ◼   ► museum now so there's a good chance you [TS]

00:58:32 ◼   ► will pass this on to your children [TS]

00:58:33 ◼   ► genetically oh it's too late for that [TS]

00:58:35 ◼   ► yeah it's they're there they're well on [TS]

00:58:38 ◼   ► their way and then and then against the [TS]

00:58:40 ◼   ► one book you know it's it's weird [TS]

00:58:43 ◼   ► because I don't really go for anything [TS]

00:58:45 ◼   ► she stands for but i did enjoy reading [TS]

00:58:48 ◼   ► the fountainhead it's it's Florida it's [TS]

00:58:51 ◼   ► soap operatic she was brilliant in that [TS]

00:58:54 ◼   ► she came up with a philosophy where no [TS]

00:58:56 ◼   ► one was allowed to edit her [TS]

00:58:58 ◼   ► so you know because that would be [TS]

00:58:59 ◼   ► running counter to what the Creator was [TS]

00:59:02 ◼   ► doing in the Creator is right but for [TS]

00:59:05 ◼   ► all that it's you know it's a good [TS]

00:59:07 ◼   ► potboiler if you just sort of ignore the [TS]

00:59:09 ◼   ► philosophy and then you go wow that [TS]

00:59:12 ◼   ► wasn't so bad i'll read Atlas Shrugged [TS]

00:59:13 ◼   ► don't read Atlas Shrugged you know Two [TS]

00:59:18 ◼   ► and then and then the the very last one [TS]

00:59:20 ◼   ► in AP English never that was that was a [TS]

00:59:24 ◼   ► nice one because we did we got a list of [TS]

00:59:26 ◼   ► books and you got to pick any any book [TS]

00:59:29 ◼   ► you want to read in any order and you [TS]

00:59:31 ◼   ► only had to read five of them and it's [TS]

00:59:33 ◼   ► alright yeah and you did a lot of [TS]

00:59:35 ◼   ► one-on-one discussion with the teacher [TS]

00:59:37 ◼   ► and so great and and I finally picked [TS]

00:59:40 ◼   ► Graham Greene I'd never read any Graham [TS]

00:59:42 ◼   ► Greene and you had a choice you could [TS]

00:59:44 ◼   ► read The Third Man which in retrospect I [TS]

00:59:47 ◼   ► should have read haha [TS]

00:59:48 ◼   ► or you could read the power and the [TS]

00:59:50 ◼   ► glory and I read the power and the glory [TS]

00:59:53 ◼   ► which is about when the Catholic Church [TS]

00:59:55 ◼   ► was outlawed in mexico mix [TS]

00:59:55 ◼   ► was outlawed in mexico mix [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► spain and and it's the last priest in [TS]

01:00:02 ◼   ► the country on the run and people are [TS]

01:00:04 ◼   ► hunting him to kill him and it is just I [TS]

01:00:08 ◼   ► mean it's i will say it's a beautifully [TS]

01:00:10 ◼   ► written portrait of despair but it I [TS]

01:00:14 ◼   ► couldn't get through it because it was [TS]

01:00:16 ◼   ► changing me i was getting so into it was [TS]

01:00:19 ◼   ► so beautifully written that and my [TS]

01:00:21 ◼   ► mother finally said you have to stop [TS]

01:00:23 ◼   ► reading that you have to put it down and [TS]

01:00:26 ◼   ► I put I've never read the last I don't [TS]

01:00:28 ◼   ► know 50 60 pages of it and I put it down [TS]

01:00:31 ◼   ► and life was sunny again so that's [TS]

01:00:34 ◼   ► that's my list that's your last okay [TS]

01:00:35 ◼   ► fair enough [TS]

01:00:36 ◼   ► Andy the only other one that was on my [TS]

01:00:40 ◼   ► list [TS]

01:00:41 ◼   ► I'm amazed that if I if when I set out [TS]

01:00:43 ◼   ► to think of not just love books today [TS]

01:00:46 ◼   ► was forced to read that I really liked [TS]

01:00:48 ◼   ► and I really didn't like but how about [TS]

01:00:49 ◼   ► all of them [TS]

01:00:50 ◼   ► it was a short list of ones i could [TS]

01:00:52 ◼   ► actually remember wasn't it would be you [TS]

01:00:55 ◼   ► I was you would come up with well how [TS]

01:00:57 ◼   ► about the tempest okay well yeah I did I [TS]

01:01:01 ◼   ► think happened I had to read The Tempest [TS]

01:01:02 ◼   ► to but man there's so few that would [TS]

01:01:05 ◼   ► really stand out but the other one that [TS]

01:01:07 ◼   ► was on my list as a positive was the [TS]

01:01:10 ◼   ► call of the wild for a couple of major [TS]

01:01:12 ◼   ► reasons i thought the number one it was [TS]

01:01:14 ◼   ► a great story well if there's nothing [TS]

01:01:16 ◼   ► written about this that was designed as [TS]

01:01:19 ◼   ► a great literature it was just designed [TS]

01:01:21 ◼   ► to be a pot boiling thriller that [TS]