A Gathering of Old Men: 110-167

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This week David, Tim, and Heidi discuss which characters are most villainous in Ernest Gaines' novel, and dig in to the narrative and dramatic effect of leaving the gathering of old men right in the middle of the story.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm David Kern.
0:03.6	I'm Heidi White.
0:04.7	And I'm Tim McIntosh.
0:06.2	And you were listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are discussing Ernest J. Gaines' book, A Gathering of Old Men.
0:14.7	And we're here to discuss through page 167.
0:19.8	So that section ends with T. Jack's bar scene, basically.
0:28.9	So, Tim, you were not here last week.
0:32.2	You were in Arizona, I believe.
0:36.0	Correct.
0:36.8	So this will turn to you first. You can give us a temperature check
0:41.4	on your feelings about this novel. And then we'll dive into some questions that I have for this
0:47.9	section. So we got a chance to emote and discuss it. Oh, you did. Can you? I mean, I still, I love this book.
0:57.1	No, I don't think we were like, we didn't run counter to that. We both still
0:59.8	like this book. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you,
1:02.6	what was the nature of your emoting?
1:06.9	Positive.
1:07.3	I'll listen to it on the podcast. Oh, I see. Okay.
1:13.1	I'll send you the link to the app where you can download podcasts. Oh, okay.
1:13.6	Yeah.
1:14.1	Yeah.
1:14.6	You can find it on iTunes, Stitcher, wherever you get your podcast.
1:17.7	Exactly.
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