Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen King cast, One Man's Musings on the Works of Stephen King.

Each week I will review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King and the chronological order of publication.

And today we are going to examine the novella apt pupil from 1982's collection of different seasons.

Now, just a little disclaimer before we get any further into this episode.

This review was first published in 2014, and you're currently hearing my voice from outside of time.

I am recording this new introduction from 2026 because I feel that I wanted to include

a little update onto apt pupil because I think that since this original recording, there's a lot

of thoughts that Stephen King included within this novella

that are very pertinent to the world that we find ourselves currently living in

especially for that of young men

so as you know and I don't believe that I talked about it much

in the original review,

but there is a term for a type of young person who feels entitled and feels drawn to treating others poorly due to a sense of superiority.

And it's much more complicated than that, but the term is in cell.

And though that wasn't a term that was written, that was around at the time of this original publication,

when Stephen King first wrote apt pupil,

I believe that it is very applicable

to the novella itself.

And I think that what we see from, from Todd Bowden in this novella,

can be transplanted into today. Now, I'm not saying that this is, that would lend itself to a

modern adaptation because so much of this, this, tethered to the particular period of time.

But if you were to take the Nazi component out of it and substitute it for something else,

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