Tales to Terrify 265 Leslie Bohem Diane Awerbuck Brendan Wilhem
Tales to Terrify
Drew Sebesteny
4.5 • 703 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2017
⏱️ 88 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Love this podcast? |
| 0:01.7 | Support this show through the ACAST supporter feature. |
| 0:05.4 | It's up to you how much you give, and there's no regular commitment. |
| 0:09.1 | Just click the link in the show description to support now. Welcome to Tales to Tales to Terrify, part of |
| 0:21.6 | Part of the District of Wonders Network. |
| 0:40.3 | Featuring Starship, Sofafer and Far-Fetched Fables, |
| 0:43.7 | everyone has a story in the District of Wonders. |
| 0:46.7 | Come and find yours. |
| 1:01.4 | Good evening, children of the night. Well, I did it. I managed to find time to finish Joe Hill's The Fireman. And I'll tell you, I enjoyed it. It's a very well-crafted read and I can see |
| 1:07.9 | exactly why it managed to find itself on last year's Goodreads |
| 1:11.9 | Reader's choice finalist for horror. Joe Hill's dad, Stephen King, makes use of direct literary |
| 1:18.0 | music and movie references. Joe continues in that tradition and right as I was thinking about |
| 1:24.0 | how this book feels ever so slightly like McCarthy's The Road. |
| 1:28.8 | His character mentions the work by name. |
| 1:32.2 | If Cormick McCarthy took the burnt-up world of post-apocalyptic to 11, |
| 1:36.8 | this finds itself somewhere around, I'll say six. |
| 1:40.6 | I mean, don't get me wrong. |
| 1:42.0 | The book is filled up with human beings burning alive and charred corpses, but it doesn't |
| 1:46.8 | weigh down the reader's soul constantly. |
| 1:49.5 | You can read it before bed without wondering how bad things would have to get before you |
| 1:53.6 | start cannibalizing hapless strangers. |
| 1:56.5 | Pick it up from a Barnes & Noble or your local library. |
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