At long last, Rodney and I are finally presenting our discussion of The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth. Due to circumstances beyond our control, we had to trash our first attempt at this episode completely. This episode is our second attempt to record a discussion for this novel. There’s probably a lot that we left out from our first conversation, but the general gist of our thoughts and feelings on this novel are still intact. It’s a varied discussion, complete with hateful diatribes about technology, monumentally anti-climactic character deaths, and the announcement of our next book for discussion.
Neither of us had ever heard of this novel before drawing it randomly from the list. Hell, we had never even heard of the author. To make it worse, the back-of-book plot description did absolutely nothing to make us wish we had. In short, this is not a book that either of us would have bothered to check out had we stumbled upon it randomly at the local library. Rodney stated it best, though, in our very first episode: leaving our comfort zones is part of what this podcast is about.
You’ll see from our discussion that we struggled with this one, but there’s still plenty to discuss.
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