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Terrible Tads whine DNF

Reviewed: 2025-01-18

Dear lord this narrator voice for Tad made me quit. That terrible terrible whining voice, Quit my first Stephen King book because of that voice.

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Horrendous absolutely awful, and bad

Reviewed: 2024-11-27

Listened to several excruciating hours, it’s just utter garbage, that I pray they return this book.
But I'm going to tell you this- everyone suffers from exceptional stupidity. I mean stupidity. In this book the people who go blind are rageful, but if you are quiet, you can sometimes get by them. Instead, our intrepid idiots have idiotic conversations instead of saying "You must NOT make noise". No one says this- instead they do the absolute stupidest things. Guy who's cheating on his pregnant wife, goes and rescues and brings home to his wife, his mistress. And she hugs her, instead of quietly killing her. I gave up about then.
The EVIL people of the book are so over the top too, All they need are twirling mustaches, and some jackboots.
It's really terribly written.

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I'd like it darker!

Reviewed: 2024-05-26

I adore Stephen King, have since Carrie came out, I am a Constant reader. Most books I own are his and I listen to many over and over. His recent work I also love- Billy Summers, The Institute, and Fairy Tale are 3 favs. One because of a dog named Radar. :)

That said, I'm almost done this audiobook and am wondering where's the darkness here? Full Dark, No stars- was pretty dark, and I loved it. This one is quite enjoyable but not so dark at all. In fact... Joe Hill sounds more like Old King, than Old King does!
He's mellowed like wine perhaps. I'm not interested in getting jump scared at my age particularly either, so the mellowing happened on both our parts.
SO happy that my favourite narrator Will Patton, does most of the narrating. He makes any book shine.
I may change my review after listening to the last 6 hours.
Actually, I have. Rattlersnake(s) with it's tie to Duma Key- absolutely great story.
Lori (Laurie?) because dog- I loved. And two Talented Bastids,

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For a Holly book It was just ok- disappointing

Reviewed: 2023-09-08

I love Holly Gibney- she's been my favourite character since her first moment of life, but I have to admit the narrator, isn't my Holly. Not even close.
My Holly sounds like she's autistic, her voice sounds often like mine...I absolutely relate to her. She also has always been voiced by Will Patton- not Justine Lupe. 4 books and in another short novel. Justine does an ok job, but she injected no personality into Holly, and as such, it was just another book, which completely disappointed me.
I wanted Will's Holly, who has character galore. The Covid stuff makes more sense if you KNOW Holly, Oooof. She'd be completely horrified, terrified, like most of us were at the beginning, but she's also OCD and germs are NOT cool with Holly. Will gets her. Justine missed.

I love Stephen King, I own most of his writing, but Stephen, stop writing about Trump- I hate him and his name drags me screaming from what was an enjoyable story.
It is a good book, but it's not a favourite and I likely won't listen to it again, not like my favourite books which I listen to over and over.

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I loved it and hated it too

Reviewed: 2023-09-01

I didn't know anything about this writer, and I'm not a young reader, but I figured going into it I'd know the ending, so why not see how they got to there?
I'll admit honestly to having cried listening to this. I also laughed. Rufous and Matteo were a great team, and showed so much personal growth, you just want them to have long lives.
They won't, thus the tears. But getting to that stage is a really tender, sweet story.
As others have mentioned, I wish we knew why Deathcast knew who'd die, but that's a quibble and not a necessity. I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did. It surprised me in a lot of ways.

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Loved it and Bronson's accents!

Reviewed: 2023-08-23

Roland, not the Dark Tower's Roland, but a Roland- is an ok king, but he's murdered by good old Randal Flagg (From the Stand and from the DT) and the one boy who is meant to be king, is imprisoned for his murder. His younger, weak willed brother becomes king, but not a good one.

This is a fun story, and Bronson Pinchot sells it. How are people listening to the same narrator as I? Obviously they didn't listen long, Just his slithery sounding Flagg with the long pronouced "s'es" like a snake- is both repulsive and fitting- loved it.

He tunes some of the characters with an Irishy-Scottishy sounding accent- which sounded fine to me. He gives the inhabitants of Delain their own accents.

It's not typical Stephen King- it's more along the lines of The Dark Tower, and that makes it a keeper for me.

"You didn't bring any turnips, did you?" If you get this, you get this. :)

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A few hits, a few not quite hits.

Reviewed: 2023-07-09

LowMen in Yellow coats, is part of the Dark Tower series and as such I ADORED it. I also adore Hurt's narration. He speaks impeccably well and takes his time, I thoroughly enjoyed him.
My least favourite was Hearts in Atlantis, it was funny, and sweet and So much what I remember of the 60s, and Hearts. (He also played Wist) We fondly remember Oches's I'm not marching anymore. I've got used to
Stephen's narration, but it's not polished like Hurt's.
John Hurt's back for Why We're in Vietnam, another one I like a great deal.
Hoping for Bobby to bring it all home in the last story. He did and that makes this a success.

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Loved it

Reviewed: 2023-05-07

Appreciated the AA theme, he knows his stuff. The narrator was very good, I’ll listen to more from him..

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My favourite series

Reviewed: 2023-01-03

I loved this series, though by the end I was getting tired of Roland and loss. Far and away my preference was Wizard and Glass. Susan will always make me cry.

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Red ad a kid and now as a grannie

Reviewed: 2022-11-25

This book terrified me when I first read it when it came out. It’s the one Stephen King book I’ve been reticent to listen to because I have a fear of clowns and he made it no easier. But after being in my library for the last 4 years in audio form was time to try it again. I wasn’t totally terrified this time but I was in bed with 3 German Shepherds around for safety. The reader was straight out excellent and I’ll listen again to his narration.

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