A Canticle for Leibowitz: To the End

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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As we come to the end of the fascinating book, we’re discussing the change in the authorial voice, the various enigmatic figures of part three, and whether this is a novel which ends in notes of hope or notes of despair. So hit that play button and join us as we discuss the final section of Walter J. Miller’s novel! Happy listening!

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Heidi White.
0:04.0	And I'm Sean Johnson.
0:06.0	And this is Close Reads, a podcast for The Incurable Reader, on which we are discussing a canticle for Libowice, the final chapters, chapters 26 or 25 to the end.
0:19.0	And David is not here today.
0:21.6	So it's just Sean and I.
0:23.1	And as we were,
0:24.2	Sean,
0:24.4	as we were talking off the air,
0:26.4	like,
0:26.5	what is there to even talk about about this book,
0:28.4	right?
0:29.0	Like,
0:29.2	how are we going to fill space and time?
0:31.8	I'm saying.
0:32.8	Hard to say.
0:34.0	Yeah.
0:34.4	So we're going to give it her best shot.
0:36.9	I texted you in the group chat earlier, Sean,
0:40.4	that I was like physically tired after reading the end of this book. I was not ready. I don't,
0:45.7	I don't know what I expected, but I was, like, not ready for the end of this book. Is that
0:53.2	your experience the first? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah,
0:55.7	even returning to it, I'm never quite prepared. It just has to happen to you. There is, man, so much.
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