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The best horror podcast I've found

Revisado: 11-20-23

An excellent podcast interviewing horror writers, plus some horror book reviews. Neil McRobert does a stellar job of both selecting authors to interview and interviewing them. I've gotten so many excellent book recommendations from this podcast, often by authors I'd never even heard of before.

Neil is great at sticking to the point. If you're sick of bloated podcasts with hosts going on and on about stuff that has nothing to do with the subject matter, Talking Scared will be a real treat for you.

If you want to sample it, I particularly enjoyed episode 168 (Tananarive Due & Locked in with the Monsters, on her book set in a haunted juvenile reformatory in the 1950s), 147 (Mike Flanagan & Lighting Up the Darkness, mostly on his Stephen King adaptations), 127 (Grady Hendrix and the Radical Puppet Collective, in which he reveals that he actually belonged to one), 54 (Stephen Graham Jones & Dancing with the Slasher, about My Heart is a Chainsaw), and 40 (Zakiya Dalila Harris & the Fear of not being Black Enough, about her book best read totally unspoiled, The Other Black Girl.)

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Scary and Superb

Revisado: 10-23-22

This review is for seasons 1 and 2 - I haven't started season 3 yet. But based on the first two, I can't wait. This is simply the best fiction podcast I've ever listened to. It took me an episode or two to really get into it, but once I was hooked, I was HOOKED. The story and acting is fantastic, it's very scary, and I got quite attached to the characters. If you like horror or polar exploration at all, this is for you. I loved the international angle and the many languages used.

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Very disappointing

Revisado: 10-16-22

I love Catriona Ward so I was very excited to see an audio original by her. This is nothing like her usual style and it seems like most of it was written by the other writer.

The performances are okay at first, but get more and more melodramatic as they go along. The sound effects are very loud and intrusive.

This story started out as a very promising Arctic horror-thriller, but devolved into a series of boring and annoying cliches, concluding in one of the most obnoxious possible twists.

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There are no ghosts. They did not really find a frozen cub on the ice. Almost all of what we thought occurred was actually a dream. I HATE that twist! Sure, it was a dream caused by an experiment in human hibernation, but it's still a story where everything exciting and interesting and mysterious was just a dream.

If this had been a physical book I'd have thrown it across the room.

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Excellent King podcast by thoughtful fans

Revisado: 07-30-22

I enjoy how thoughtful and insightful they are, while also being unabashed fans. The podcast is very entertaining, and I appreciate their enthusiasm and love of Stephen King's writing and characters. (Anyone who dislikes Susannah Dean or Frannie Goldsmith is dead to me.) I like that they're good at staying on-topic rather than chit-chatting about nothing, which is a problem that ruins many otherwise good podcasts. I tried it out for Dark Tower, but stayed for The Stand.

I hope they read The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon at some point. It has a Dark Tower connection and it's a very different but excellent but from any they've read so far.

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Excellent vampire drama with good twists

Revisado: 02-21-22

This started a bit slow but once a certain plot twist happened, I was hooked. It ended up surprisingly heartwarming, with the twists dictated by the characters and their relationships. I loved how many women were in it, with important roles and interesting relationships with each other, and that it's not the type of story where anyone showing compassion or kindness to a stranger is depicted as stupid or naive.

I really hope there will be a sequel.

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Audio ruined by obnoxious accent halfway through

Revisado: 10-18-21

This audiobook started out great. The story is really fun, and I loved the narrator's performance... until the 40% mark. A new character is introduced who has a Japanese accent, but it's not written phonetically or even into her dialogue at all - it's just stated that she has one. She does have an unusual way of talking, but not because she's Japanese.

The narrator's rendition of her dialogue is basically "Your racist uncle gets drunk at Thanksgiving and tells a wildly offensive joke involving a generic Asian accent that's equal parts 'Me love you long time' and Fu Manchu."

At that point I switched to the written book. I can't believe no one told the narrator to not do a horrendously racist accent which is additionally so annoying that it makes the book impossible to continue with in audio!

I liked the first part of the book, in Mythen Rood, more than the second, even in written form. But I enjoyed it a lot overall and will continue reading. NOT listening!

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Fantastic

Revisado: 06-24-21

I'm not even a fan of Rage Against the Machine, but this was GREAT. Genuinely inspirational, gripping, funny, moving. I need to check out Tom Morello's solo albums because I loved the songs from them.

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Gripping Story, Great Performance

Revisado: 03-02-21

One of the best things I've found on Audible. It's so much more than a true crime story, though it has plenty of startling twists and suspenseful moments. This is also a fascinating dive into a vividly evoked culture and place, and a very moving personal story. The writing, performance, and production are fantastic.

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