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Firestarter A Novel

Stephen King

Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic #1 Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for an experiment orchestrated by the clandestine government organization known as The Shop. But the outcome unlocked exce...

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My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

Patton Oswalt mentioned that he'll likely let his daughter read Firestarter, but acknowledged a bizarre section involving a psychiatrist's fetish for garbage disposals and ladies' underwear while masturbating.

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Ooh. Firestarter is very much, that'll be one that I'll let her read.

— Episode: Celebrity Hometowns with Patton Oswalt

Episode: Celebrity Hometowns with Patton Oswalt

Patton Oswalt mentioned that he'll likely let his daughter read Firestarter, but acknowledged a bizarre section involving a psychiatrist's fetish for garbage disposals and ladies' underwear while masturbating.

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Ooh. Firestarter is very much, that'll be one that I'll let her read.

The only thing about Firestarter is there's a very weird section where this psychiatrist who is studying the kid who can start fires has a weird sexual kink where he puts on ladies' underwear and then jerks off while he looks at a garbage disposal running.

It's totally Stranger Things.

It's Stranger Things with a weird jerking off to a garbage disposal fetish.

I literally think about that part of that book every time I use my garbage disposal.

Episode: 71 - Put It In A Door

It was mentioned briefly in relation to a conversation about investigative journalism and the importance of journalists. The speaker had read it as a teenager and found it to be quite frightening.

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I don't know if that's, that's the end of firestarter.

When they, they're like running, running, running from the government and the black ops and the, you know, men in black and all that.

And they finally like the dad has killed. Anyone?

I haven't seen it. So I read it when I was like 13. I was obsessed. It gave me nightmares when I read it and I was like probably the same age as you.

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