Ep 109 - The Girl Next Door, by Jack Ketchum

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2015

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door is not for the faint of heart. The story is based on the grisly murder of Sylvia Likens by her de facto guardian in the 1960s. What preceded her death is too reprehensible to print here, but Ketchum dives headlong into the awful, determined to suss out the causes (and bounds) of human evil.

Suffice to say, this makes for a difficult discussion on-air, and we spend nearly half the show trying not to talk about the rougher aspects of the book. So please join us for a discussion of phishing, safewords from the future, childhood games, and the parts of The Girl Next Door that made Craig feel terrible.

Caveat lictor: This episode contains explicit language and discussion of graphic material.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, this is Craig, one of your co-hosts.
0:05.1	Hi Craig.
0:05.7	Andrew, I thought you were going to back me up.
0:07.4	Sorry.
0:09.5	This is your show.
0:10.5	I'm Andrew.
0:11.1	Hi.
0:12.3	Usually you would be hearing the opening theme song of the show,
0:18.0	but we, uh, we want to take a moment to still kind of listen to the opening theme song.
0:22.1	Well, yeah, but usually be hearing it now.
0:23.8	This is, this Dix disclaimer is going on very long.
0:27.4	The book that we're going to talk about this week, Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door, is pretty
0:33.1	graphic in its depiction of violence of both just a horrible and sometimes a sexual nature.
0:39.6	So, uh, and there's, there will need to be swearing as we talk about it.
0:44.0	There are quotes from the book that have swearing in them.
0:46.1	So not only if you have sensitive ears, but if you, if you are sensitive to that type of material,
0:50.4	I really don't feel like I want you to listen to it if you aren't for it.
0:57.0	Yeah, I mean, it's, it's, I did not, I did not read it, but I have read up on it.
1:01.8	And yeah, it sounds like there, you know, there's some, there's some torture, there's some,
1:06.2	some rape.
1:07.6	There's a lot of, there's some mutilation.
1:09.5	I don't know.
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