Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
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Today we have a special treat for you - we got Henry from\\xa0FireStarters\\xa0\\xa0to read\\xa0Grace Metalious\'\\xa0Peyton Place\\xa0with us and let me tell you... it\'s a real Peyton Place in there.
I honestly can\'t even describe the plot of this book so let me just give you the trigger warnings, I guess?\\xa0 So this book is trying really hard to shock you, which shouldn\'t shock you - the stuff that\\xa0isn\'t\\xa0intentional in it, therefore, is... more shocking?\\xa0 So on that front look out for rampant 1950\'s racism that thinks it\'s progressive including\\xa0whoa\\xa0n-word count and awful depictions of mental illness, including a character who dies by suicide.\\xa0 The stuff you\'re here for, though - the\\xa0Peyton Place\\xa0stuff - includes but probably is not limited to because my god: incestuous rape and abuse, secret illegal abortion(s), an industrial carnival accident, a cat strangled in absolutely bizarre circumstances (I mean seriously usually I\'m the one freaked out by animal cruelty but the dead cat\\xa0barely registers\\xa0it\'s like that), suicide by hanging, a hard ravishing, and oh yeah a murder.
FireStarters is a podcast dedicated to discussing all the cultural references in Billy Joel\'s "We Didn\'t Start the Fire", and therefore they\\xa0already did an episode on Peyton Place\\xa0 - but they only watched the movie!\\xa0 Henry had no idea what he was in for.
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