Parallel Fiction - Ep 39: Red Herring - Scream & The Woman In Cabin 10

Ep 39: Red Herring - Scream & The Woman In Cabin 10

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06/30/21 • 69 min

Parallel Fiction

Hey friends! Everyone loves a good mystery, and this episode we're serving up two. Back in the old days, Red Herring's were used to train & condition dogs to use their sense of smell better, by throwing them off trail with the pungent fish. In literature and film, Red Herrings are a plot device to purposely throw the viewer off the correct track in order to shock them later on in the story. The 1996 slasher cult classic Scream is the absolute definition of Red Herring, with its constant misleading clues and "Who Dunnit" mentality and a perfect pick for this episode. For our novel this week, Heather picked Ruth Ware's thriller "The Woman In Cabin 10" which has some shocking twists and turns itself, choosing to narrate the story from the future using news paper articles in between chapters, making you wonder if you ever truly know whats what. Enjoy and share with anyone who loves a good mystery!

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Ep 38: Controversy - Dogma & A Spark Of Light

Hello all! Welcome back to Parallel Fiction. This week we will be covering controversial pieces of work, and with that we'd like to extend a trigger warning to all on numerous topics - if you feel that this episode may not be for you, we completely understand and hope to see you back in the next one. Otherwise, lets take a dive into some more thought provoking works - The 1999 comedy film Dogma (which was picketed at movie theaters when it came out) and Jodi Picoult's 2018 novel A Spark of Light. We dive into these two and discuss how people can try to better understand one another, and that our differences of opinion are sometimes what brings us together in the end. Enjoy!

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