The End of "The Road"

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

This week we begin with a brief “Posts for the Hosts” segment before diving into conversation about the final passages in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Topics include passages that are most moving to each of us, whether the final pages are truly hopeful, the archetypal nature of the story, the question of God in the book, and much more. Happy listening!

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm David Kern.
0:03.9	I'm Heidi White.
0:05.2	I'm Kim McIntosh.
0:06.6	And I'm Sean Johnson.
0:08.3	And you were listening to Close Read the podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are discussing Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road, his Pulitzer Prize winning novel.
0:16.5	And we are, in particular, discussing the end of the book.
0:19.8	Well, the whole book.
0:20.8	We have the whole thing in front of us now and we can discuss.
0:23.5	We can, we can spoil it, so to speak.
0:27.0	We can talk about all of it.
0:28.9	Tim is actually on the road right now.
0:31.8	He is, like the characters in this book, somewhere in the mountains,
0:36.6	where the connection is poor and the ashes flowing freely.
0:39.8	Is that right?
0:40.5	Did I get that right, Tim?
0:42.2	That's exactly right.
0:43.0	And I'm actually in a car, like our main characters lived for various evenings in a burned-out car.
0:50.0	That's what I'm doing.
0:50.9	I'm podcasting from a car.
0:52.4	But are you hot boxing in this car?
0:54.9	And I'm hot boxing in the car. Man, that is a throwback to like year two or year three, isn't it?
1:02.5	I was back when I was a mere listener. Wow. Yeah. Wow. So.
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