long days, pleasant nights, and welcome to Kingslingers, a doof media podcast journeying through Stephen King's Dark Terror series and beyond.

I am your host, Costa Reader Scott Daley, and joining me, as always, is the man who can't get enough of cruelty.

It's Matt Freeman.

How's it going today, Matt?

I just love the cruelty.

I wish there was a whole other book just like this one.

Well, you're in luck.

Of course, that's not what we're talking about today, but...

Not today, not today.

But you have...

I think you finished it, actually, right?

I did finish it, yes.

We will not be talking about the regulators at all today, but I think if it's any

testimony how you feel about that book, you've read it pretty quick.

Yeah, that's true.

I did.

I read it very quick.

Weeks away from the episode, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, here we are.

But this week, our 11-part coverage of Stephen King's desperation continues as we reach the overview episode.

This is the one where we take a look back at the novel as a whole, spend a little bit of time talking about the forest, not the trees, and find out kind of our conclusion on what this novel was and what it was doing.

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