Episode 252 – Carrie
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2024
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Hold onto your tampons: we read Carrie by Stephen King. Our friend Nicole returned to the podcast to read this classic horror novel that’s even bloodier than Gerald’s Game. Listen to this episode while honing your telekinetic powers!
Content warnings: Religious extremism, child abuse, death of children
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Episode 41 – Gerald’s Game
“And Eve Was Weak” from Carrie: The Musical
Coming up next: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about the horrors of menstruation so you don't have to. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:16.9 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:18.3 | And for this episode, we read Carrie by Stephen King. |
| 0:22.1 | Joining us to discuss this 50-year-old classic is writer Stephen King fan and Dr. RJ Sinister, |
| 0:29.3 | Nicole. |
| 0:30.1 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:33.0 | Welcome back, Nicole. |
| 0:34.4 | Glad to have you here. |
| 0:35.7 | I'm glad that I'm apparently now you're Stephen King expert. Hell yes. Well, Nicole. Glad to have you here. I'm glad that I'm apparently now your Stephen King expert. |
| 0:39.2 | Hell yes. |
| 0:40.9 | Well, we made you read Gerald's game, and now we had to make you read something that wasn't Gerald's game. |
| 0:49.2 | Yeah, I do appreciate that. |
| 0:52.6 | Yeah, there's still a lot going on here too, though. |
| 0:57.3 | It's true, but like, I, here's the thing. Like, as I was reading this, I was like, I know that this is, that there are parts of this that are very bad. Like, I know that there is so much, like, written man itis in this book but also like I still feel |
| 1:16.5 | like it's slap I don't I don't disagree um there are certainly parts of this that slap I even |
| 1:24.2 | put that in the show notes. |
| 1:34.3 | And I mean, it is wild. This book is literally 50 years old. I read the 50th anniversary edition. And it was his first book, his first published book. And there's a lot about |
| 1:43.0 | that that is just fucking wild. |
| 1:45.8 | I guess I don't know, because Renada, I know you don't like reading a lot of spooky books and whatnot. |
| 1:50.6 | So I did try to keep that in mind that when I was reading it because there's like some |
| 1:55.3 | lore behind the publication of this book that I'm sure Kate's also familiar with. |
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