Long days, pleasant nights, and welcome to Kingslingers, a doof media podcast jourting through Stephen King's Dark Tower series and beyond.

I am your host, Constant Reader Scott Daly, and I'm joined, as always, by King Newby Matt Freeman.

Matt confess.

I actually really liked the Dreamcatcher movie.

Ooh.

Folks, can he be forgiven?

Not by us.

Not by us.

We turn to a higher power in this regard.

Stephen King.

Also no.

Yes, also. This week on the show show the talisman continues as we begin our time in the sunlight home it has sun at the same matt how could it be bad it's got to be good right

right yeah there would never be some kind of subversion in play matt what did you think of this

week's reading?

I mean, delightfully horrible.

Just real unpleasant, you know?

I mean, the book really excels of getting you to care about our character's plight and then just really piling on.

Yeah.

And I mean, it's a very interesting structure.

And this is not the first time we've pointed this out.

But now it has gone from like, oh, that's kind of interesting to like, okay, this is absolutely what we're doing is we're moving from like imprisonment to imprisonment.

And we're just absolutely torturing this kid at each station of the cross. I, station of the, of the cross.

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