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Stephen Kingcast

Episode 228-The Ending of Pet Sematary

Stephen Kingcast

Constant Reader

Tv & Film, Arts, Arts:books, Books

4.7680 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

As endings go, this one is BLEAK! So let's debate whether bleak=good on this installment as I continue to examine the conclusions of King's books to determine whether or not he deserves his reputation for not being able to end his books.

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0:00.0

Under the Alcouver where the steam burns,

0:10.0

Inche Gables and Walo

0:13.0

Come at the ground light making a sense

0:16.0

The smell of death is all around

0:20.0

And you're not when the cold wind blows

0:22.6

No one cares nobody knows

0:26.6

I don't want to be buried in a bed cemetery

0:34.6

I don't want to live my life again

0:40.3

Hello everyone, welcome to the Stephen King's Mewsings on the Works of Stephen King.

0:45.3

Once I reviewed each of his works in the chronological order of publication, but Ka is a wheel, it all goes round again, and here I am once more,

0:53.3

back at the beginning on a new phase of the journey

0:55.3

to examine each of the endings of the works of Stephen King, to determine whether or not King deserves

1:00.9

the reputation that he has for having an inability to successfully land his endings.

1:06.8

The focus of the podcast is going to be to examine the climax, the falling action, and resolution of the endings of each of his novels and break it down by character themes conflict and plot to determine whether or not it meets the criteria of being an objectively good ending.

1:21.6

I'm also going to weigh in on whether or not I happen to like the ending itself.

1:26.3

So we can start to parse out the difference between

1:28.6

objectivity and subjectivity when it comes to engaging with the endings of Stephen King's works.

1:35.5

So I apologize, guys. It's been a while. It's been over 10 days since I released the last

1:42.1

episode on Christine, which gave us the first break in terms of the objective

1:50.1

and the subjective.

1:51.2

Last week, if you remember, when discussing the ending

1:54.5

of Christine, based on the factors that went into the ending,

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