Review of Reading McCarthy - Reveals spoilers and can be narrowly

Reveals spoilers and can be narrowly academic

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“The podcast is well produced and has a good host but could be better. For starters, listeners had better have read all of McCarthy's works before listening to individual episodes, because even if a particular episode focuses on one work, the host and his guests frequently reveal spoilers about other works. So, for example, an episode about All the Pretty Horses, the first novel in McCarthy's Border Trilogy, will contain spoilers about the other two books in the trilogy, The Crossing and Cities of the Plain. This is frustrating for someone who comes to the podcast after having read one or two of McCarthy's works. Moreover, depending on the guest(s), discussions sometimes become narrowly academic and pedantic, thus missing the forest for the trees. (In my opinion the best guest has been Steven Frye, who has written several books on McCarthy and is able to discuss McCarthy's work in interesting and insightful ways without using jargon and going off on tangents that appeal only to specialists.) The podcast would better serve listeners if the host and his guests would limit discussions in episodes about individual McCarthy works to those works. It would also be nice to have episodes in which the host and/or his guests respond to listeners' questions about McCarthy and his works.”Read full review »

赤尾のすり via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 07/08/24