#78 | The Road (novel)

KnockBack: The Retro and Nostalgia Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Leisure, Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2019

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

Even the darkest fiction we watch and read typically has some sort of light at the end of the tunnel. But not Cormac McCarthy's The Road. First published in 2006 (and later turned into a film in 2009), The Road is unlike any father-and-son tale you've ever experienced. Civilization is in ruins, the sun is blotted out by endless smoke, almost everyone is dead, and the world and its few remaining inhabitants are completely unrecognizable. What does it take to survive in such an unimaginably dark situation? And is it even worth surviving at all? Let's delve into this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and ask ourselves a simple question, the question at the very heart of McCarthy's narrative: Is there any limit to what you'd do for love? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:03.5	Dagen how are you today?
1:08.8	That was the apocalypse.
1:10.1	Phew!
1:11.1	Phew! Pchchpchpchoohhoo! So I'm going to play with G.I. Josie. Yeah, exactly. That's exactly what I was like.
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