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Stephen Kingcast

Episode Eighty Five-From A Buick 8

Stephen Kingcast

Constant Reader

Arts, Tv & Film, Books, Arts:books

4.7681 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2015

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, I examine Stephen King's OTHER evil car story, From A Buick 8.  What does this story tell us about loss and moving on?  Find out this week in the Stephen Kingcast!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone's music and the

0:02.0

Little boy blue and the man and the moon

0:07.0

When you're coming home, Dad a Dawn

0:09.0

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Stephen King cast,

0:12.0

One Man's Musings on The Works of Stephen King.

0:14.0

Each week, I'll review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King

0:18.0

and the chronological order of publication, and this week week I'm reviewing a novel that when I had originally sat down thinking about creating a Stephen King filled podcast. This book gave me pause. In my review of Dreamcatcher, I mentioned that there were a couple books that I did not

0:37.7

look forward to rereading, and this one sat at the top of the list. I remember getting it for

0:44.3

Christmas. I still remember the feeling of a new Stephen King book all wrapped up underneath

0:51.6

the Christmas tree. A perfect present from Santa Claus to me.

0:57.0

You know, not in school at the time, on school vacation, no responsibilities, no plans,

1:02.6

nothing to do, just opportunity to just sit around under the Christmas lights, staying warm, drinking tea or hot chocolate,

1:14.1

feeling just full from eating a Christmas dinner,

1:17.5

maybe going out and using some of the gift cards

1:20.8

that I had gotten if I get bored from not doing anything

1:23.5

and just enjoying life, right?

1:26.5

And reading this new Stephen King book, what could go wrong?

1:31.3

The result is that my Christmas experience was all about reading a ponderous, meandering, and sad to say,

1:41.2

boring novel about a killer car.

1:47.0

But a killer car that never does anything.

1:49.5

The book itself is a huge... What?

1:50.4

I mean, he'd already written his book about a killer car.

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