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Stephen Kingcast

Episode 71-Thinner

Stephen Kingcast

Constant Reader

Tv & Film, Arts, Arts:books, Books

4.7680 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Take a trip down Bachman lane with the last "true" Bachman book before King was outed as the real author. How does this compare to the other Bachman novels? Does it feel more like a Bachman book or a King book? Is it any good? Find out in this week's episode of the Stephen Kingcast! As always, write in at stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow me on Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Bluesky. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com Check out bonus material, early episodes and reviews of all things pop culture over at patreon.com/stephenkingcast

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:04.2

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

0:09.5

And this week I turned my attention to the Richard Bachman novel, Thinner.

0:14.8

Before I get any further, I've gotten some listener emails over the last couple weeks that I just wanted to share.

0:19.9

And this one is from Jonathan,

0:21.2

who writes, hi. I just found your Stephen Kingcast, and I love what you're doing. I listen to the first podcast on Carrie, and we'll be going through all of them. I've also listened to the podcast on Lillia's library as well, and I love listening to podcasts on Stephen King. Have you listened to these? I'm a huge king fan and I'm a constant reader of his.

0:39.0

So to answer that, Have you listened to these? I'm a huge King fan and I'm a constant reader of his.

0:39.0

So to answer that, I have listened to some O'Lillian Loo's before I started my King cast.

0:48.1

But when it comes to other Stephen King-related podcasts, When I started this one,

0:54.8

I'm purposefully staying away from others.

0:57.7

I will plug

0:58.5

Lilia's library.

1:01.6

There's a couple others

1:03.7

that I can't remember

1:05.5

and I apologize.

1:09.2

But I've heard really good things about them.

1:12.0

Hold on.

1:12.3

I'm going to find out their names just so I can give a good plug.

1:17.3

So the books and nachos and the Now Playing Podcasts.

1:24.3

The Books and Nachos reviews.

1:31.5

The Books of Stephen King and the Now nachos reviews the the books of stephen king and the now playing podcast reviews the the movies of stephen king and better off undead used to discuss all things horror so those are

1:38.4

there was a listener email that i got from ashley um and she she spoke very highly of those podcasts.

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