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, except this week.

I have been focusing not on Stephen King, but on his hard-boiled alter ego, the dastardly Richard Bachman, who authored Thinner.

Today, I will examine 1996's Tom Holland adaptation,

starring John Robert Burke and Joe Montania.

Before I get any further, I just wanted to take the opportunity

to share a listener email, this one from Ashley.

And as you know, from previous episodes,

I really look forward to getting, um,

listening to email. I've been, uh, tweeting to a lot of you out there. Um, Instagram has always

been a great source of, uh, interaction. But I just, you know, call me a sucker for old

fashion emails. I just, I think that you're able to, you know, get me a sucker for old-fashioned emails.

I just, I think that you're able to, you know, get so much out of that, that back and forth.

And as always, everyone, please feel free to write in at Stephen Kingcast at Yahoo.com.

And just share about your Stephen King experiences, because a lot of you have been writing that you don't have an outlet for Stephen King that maybe either you're not friends with people that read Stephen King or there aren't any places for you to go to to really get into the Stephen King world. So if this is a resource for you guys, I want to be

able to make it as applicable to you as possible. So share your stories so I can share them with others.

So this is from Ashley. I was so happy when I saw your podcast through Twitter. I've been listening

to every podcast that I can that discusses Stephen King. I started with Better Off Undead that used

to discuss all things horror, but it's now just about random and really funny discussions.

Then I started the Stephen King podcast by Lilia and Lou, and then Books and Notches, where the main guy is reading a review of everything in publication order. This podcast is paired with the now playing podcast, which is doing the movies while the other is covering the books. Before 2012, I had only read three of his books, my first being desperation. The other two were called Cell and Bag of Bones. Starting in 2012, I decided to give

him a real shot, and since then I've read a little more than half of his works, several of which

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