Lloyd Alexander's "The Black Cauldron"
From Appendix N Book Club by Jeff Goad, Ngo Vinh-Hoi, and special guests
February 2, 2026 · 1h 1m
About this episode
The episode discusses Lloyd Alexander's 'The Black Cauldron' and various related topics including its adaptation and character dynamics.
Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss Lloyd Alexander's "The Black Cauldron", the case of Joseph's unreturned hardback, the unsuccessful animated adaptation, the advantage of nostalgia, complaining about invisibility, the butchering of the Welsh language, annoying anatogonists, a horse's suicide, Thor's hammer, bringing relatively low-level characters into a big epic continent-spanning war, contacting the Alexander estate, and much more!
People in this episode
Hosts: Jeff Goad, Ngo Vinh-Hoi
Topics covered
- Lloyd Alexander
- The Black Cauldron
- animated adaptation
- nostalgia
- Welsh language
- epic war
- character development
Keywords
- Lloyd Alexander
- The Black Cauldron
- animated adaptation
- nostalgia
- Welsh language
- epic war
- character development
- Joseph
- Thor
- Alexander estate
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Alexander estate
Books & works: The Black Cauldron
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