Claim OwnershipThe Great Stories
Subscribed: 95Played: 2,023
Subscribe
© Copyright 2024 Trevor Downey
Description
Is there anything better than being told a good story? Well, yes. Being told one of the truly great stories probably beats it. In this podcast, Trev Downey reads the very best in the genre and discusses them with his guests.
65 Episodes
Reverse
Trev Downey reads and then discusses The Color Out Of Space by H P Lovecraft
Trev Downey reads and then discusses Reunion by John Cheever.
Trev Downey reads and then discusses The Man Of The World by Frank O'Connor
Trev Downey reads and then discusses A Worn Path by Eudora Welty
Trev Downey reads and then discusses The Summer People by Shirley Jackson.
Trev Downey reads and then discusses Korea by John McGahern
Trev Downey reads and then discusses Who's-Dead McCarthy by Kevin Barry
Trev Downey reads and then discusses A Painful Case by James Joyce
Trev Downey reads and then discusses Casting The Runes by M R James
Trev Downey reads and then discusses The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
Trev Downey reads and then discusses The Dream Of A Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Trev Downey reads and then discusses The Creature by Edna O'Brien
Trev Downey reads and then discusses Pretty Mouth And Green My Eyes by J D Salinger
Trev Downey reads and then discusses Shooting An Elephant by George Orwell
Trev Downey reads and then discusses Tower of Babylon by Ted Chiang
Trev Downey reads and then briefly discusses Oh, Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad by MR James
Trev Downey reads Sea Oak by George Saunders
Trev Downey reads and then discusses Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut
Trev Downey reads and then discusses A Cruelty by Kevin Barry
Trev Downey reads and then discusses Dagon by H P Lovecraft
Top Podcasts
The Best New Comedy Podcast Right Now – June 2024The Best News Podcast Right Now – June 2024The Best New Business Podcast Right Now – June 2024The Best New Sports Podcast Right Now – June 2024The Best New True Crime Podcast Right Now – June 2024The Best New Joe Rogan Experience Podcast Right Now – June 20The Best New Dan Bongino Show Podcast Right Now – June 20The Best New Mark Levin Podcast – June 2024
Download from Google Play
Download from App Store
United States
A belter of a story from Trev. Ted Chiang's first published story. Note previous 50 stories was 90 % brilliant as well.
it was obvious from the First, I understand completely
And the sex? Are you a pair of prim Victorian nuns? It seemed to me that you nearly fell over yourselves trying to get away from the topic. It's a key element within the story. Four men and one women. It's a whole dynamic. You spoke at length about the kinder human gestures, but didn't mention sex once. Ellen clearly uses sex as a kindness to the others. For example, Ted tells us how she let him have two goes out of his turn. We also know that she didn't get any pleasure from the experience, but only did it for Ted. It's also striking that in a world designed as a hell, that AM lets them keep sex as a pleasure. This was worthy of a whole section of discussion. You also spoke about how the others protected Ellen on the walk, with one ahead and one behind, as if this were an act of kindness. But the obvious question was 'are they being kind, or selfishly guarding their one source of pleasure?' I feel like you're building a potentially great podcast, but you're already staking 'no-go
Guys, you need to inform yourselves about James Corbett before you start recommending his views on the first world war, or anything. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/James_Corbett