The Book of the Dun Cow: To the End

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Join David, Heidi, and Tim as they dig into the conclusion of The Book of the Dun Cow, discussing the nature of heroism in this novel and our protagonist rooster's ultimate fate.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm David Kern.
0:03.6	I'm Heidi White.
0:04.8	And I'm Tim McIntosh.
0:06.5	And you were listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are discussing Walter Wengren Jr.'s The Book of the Duncow.
0:13.9	And we are here to discuss, I guess it's part three, right? Yeah, part three.
0:18.6	It's the little, I got penultimate section.
0:21.5	Yeah, the penultimate section, because part four is like short compared to these first three parts.
0:26.4	We're going to discuss this third part and I guess the first three parts together.
0:30.8	So we're not going to spoil how it ends, but we are going to spoil the battle stuff.
0:36.7	We'll just put it that way. So if you haven't listened,
0:39.1	I mean, if you haven't read the battle stuff, then make sure you do that if you don't want to
0:43.8	get it spoiled. Before we dive into that, I just want to let you know that, uh, season two of
0:49.1	Whittie Wendell, our podcast for kids is coming. The teaser trailer has been released, so you can go check that out with your kids.
0:56.2	And we have some incredible guests coming on season two.
0:59.4	Should I, should I say some names, do you think?
1:01.9	Yeah.
1:02.6	Drop that.
1:03.0	Yeah.
1:03.1	Yeah.
1:04.0	Some of the guests coming up on season two of Withy Windle, which is our podcast for kids,
1:08.8	of course, include Trenton Lee Stewart,
1:17.3	who is the author of The Mysterious Benedict Society, which just had a season one of its Disney Plus show launch. That's, that's going to be a really fun one. We've got, towards the end of the
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