Tales to Terrify 274 Karlo Yeager Rodriguez Allison Mulder
Tales to Terrify
Drew Sebesteny
4.5 • 703 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2017
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Love this podcast? |
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| 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, everyone has a story in the District of Wonders. |
| 0:46.7 | Come and find yours. |
| 0:53.1 | Good evening, children of the night. |
| 0:57.9 | I wrapped up reading Jeff Van Damir's Annihilation recently. |
| 1:01.9 | That's the first book of the Southern Reach trilogy. |
| 1:04.6 | This book won the Nebula Award, and is a great example of a time I'm puzzled as to a book's popularity. |
| 1:13.0 | Now, hey, just before someone thinks I'm about to disrespect Van Damir's accomplishments, let me make sure I'm framing |
| 1:17.6 | things correctly. Have you ever had a pizza with anchovies? If you're not sure the answer |
| 1:23.3 | is no. Either you discovered how wonderfully delicious those salty little fish are, or you discovered |
| 1:29.1 | how incredibly gross they are. Either way, you'll remember that flavor. It's polarizing. |
| 1:35.5 | With both annihilation and anchovies, I'm in the minority. I like those fish and didn't really |
| 1:41.9 | care for annihilation. If you take a trip to the book's Goodreads page and check out those comments, you'll find that polarization. |
| 1:50.7 | People who have commented on it as a life-changing read as an homage to true style to H.P. Lovecraft. |
| 1:57.5 | And people like me who didn't get it. |
| 2:00.8 | So did I get behind the microphone to tell my podcast audience that I didn't care for a book |
| 2:05.7 | that if they read statistically probably liked? |
| 2:09.4 | Sort of, but here is a contradictory side of things. |
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