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Kingslingers | A Dark Tower Podcast

3.53: Duma Key (Part 1)

Kingslingers | A Dark Tower Podcast

Doof! Media

Darktower, Stephenking, Books, Arts

4.9680 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2024

⏱️ 158 minutes

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Summary

This week, it's new book week as we head down to sunny Florida with our pick for King's 2000s: Duma Key. We read and discussed through chapter 3 of the novel this week!

Discussion Question:  Duma Key is very clearly King's take on a Gothic novel. What is your favorite Gothic story?

Next week, Duma Key continues with How to Draw a Picture (III) through Chapter 7!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Long days, pleasant nights, and welcome to Kingslingers, a Dove Media podcast journeying through Stephen King's Dark Tower series and beyond.

0:25.0

I am your host's Constra Reader Scott Daly, and I'm joined, as always, by the little red-headed doll I yell at when I'm angry.

0:31.8

I forgot his name, but I think it starts with Matt Freeman?

0:37.5

That's right.

0:38.3

Just a weird rage doll over here.

0:41.2

Just a normal thing to have.

0:46.0

Yeah, totally, totally.

0:47.0

Nothing concerning about that at all.

0:48.7

Yep.

0:50.0

This week on the show, Matt, do you smell that?

0:55.1

It smells like the new book smell is in the air once again.

1:01.8

I wasn't sure if we were going for like the smell of the sea or what?

1:05.9

Yeah, it's the new book smell.

1:07.0

That's right.

1:08.8

This week we are moving into the 2000s and starting our selected book for this decade,

1:13.8

which will be Stephen King's Duma Key.

1:16.7

We will be with Duma Key for the next eight weeks as we work our way through it, section by section.

1:21.8

This week we read up to chapter three of the novel in which we meet our protagonist,

1:26.4

Edgar Fremantle, a successful construction

1:28.2

company owner in Minnesota who heads down to Duma Key, Florida. After a work accident takes

1:33.7

his arm and gives him some mere brain injury, he heads down to Duma Key to recover and rediscover

1:39.5

some latent talents, the most of which being art.

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