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Wolff here returns with fresh revelations - about biding one's time, or experiencing first love, or burying one's mother - that come to a variety of characters in circumstances at once everyday and extraordinary. A retired Marine enrolls in college while her son trains for Iraq. A lawyer takes a difficult deposition. An American in Rome indulges the Gypsy who's picked his pocket.
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- De chris en 04-11-08
De: Tobias Wolff
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Double Feature
- A Novel
- De: Owen King
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
- Duración: 16 h y 12 m
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Unraveling the tumultuous, decades-spanning story of the Dolan family’s friends, lovers, and adversaries, Double Feature is about letting go of everything - regret, resentment, ambition, dignity, moving pictures, the dead - and taking it again from the top. Combining propulsive storytelling and mordant wit against the backdrop of indie filmmaking, Double Feature brims with a deep understanding of the trials of ambition and art, of relationships and life, and of our attempts to survive it all.
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Worst book ever! Well maybe.
- De Randall en 08-11-17
De: Owen King
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The Talisman
- De: Stephen King, Peter Straub
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
- Duración: 28 h
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On a brisk autumn day, a 13-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: His father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America - and into another realm. One of the most influential and heralded works of fantasy ever written, The Talisman is an extraordinary novel of loyalty, awakening, terror, and mystery.
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Still Good
- De Bill S. en 03-24-10
De: Stephen King, y otros
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Kissing Games of the World
- De: Sandi Kahn Shelton
- Narrado por: Myra Platt
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What if the one person you can't bear to be with is also the one person you can't bear to be without? Jamie McClintock is a free-spirited artist and single mother who has at last found peace and freedom sharing a farmhouse with an elderly man and his young grandson. But when the old man dies suddenly her idyllic country life comes to a halt as the old man's estranged son, Nate, returns to claim the house and his child.
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Great Writer, Great Narrator ! Loved it!
- De Ms. Critic en 05-30-09
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Stories
- All-New Tales
- De: Neil Gaiman - author/editor, Al Sarrantonio - editor, Joe Hill, y otros
- Narrado por: Anne Bobby, Jonathan Davis, Katherine Kellgren, y otros
- Duración: 18 h y 11 m
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The best stories pull readers in and keep them turning the pages, eager to discover more—to find the answer to the question: "And then what happened?" The true hallmark of great literature is great imagination, and as Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio prove with this outstanding collection, when it comes to great fiction, all genres are equal.
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Something for Everyone
- De Nicole en 05-24-17
De: Neil Gaiman - author/editor, y otros
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God-Shaped Hole
- A Novel
- De: Tiffanie DeBartolo
- Narrado por: Rachael Warren
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
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When Beatrice Trixie Jordan replies to a personal ad, she meets Jacob Grace, a charming, effervescent 30-something free-spirit writer passionately seeking life. He possesses his own turns of phrase and ways of thinking and feeling that dissonantly harmonize with Trixie's off-center vision. As they rollercoaster through the joys and furies of their wrenching romance, they try to come to terms with the hurt brought about by both of their distant fathers who, in different ways, forsook them.
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To see a fortune teller or not to see one...
- De Renee en 08-08-18
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Bullet in the Brain
- De: Tobias Wolff
- Narrado por: Anthony Heald
- Duración: 13 m
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Anders is an angry, cynical man. A book critic known for his scathing reviews, he finds any excuse to dismiss, belittle, or insult. This afternoon is no more agitating than the next. Angers finds himself in a long line at the bank, waiting to reach a teller. Even after two men - wearing masks and carrying guns - take control of the building, Anders is unfazed. It's this behavior that lands him with a pistol against his stomach and a man screamingin his face. And when the bank robber, indignant over Anders' behavior, shoots the book critic in the head, his mind floats through the memories of his life, settling on one particular event....
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The Perfect Example
- De Sarah en 08-01-17
De: Tobias Wolff
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Summer at Willow Lake
- The Lakeshore Chronicles, Book 1
- De: Susan Wiggs
- Narrado por: Joyce Bean
- Duración: 12 h y 49 m
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Real estate expert Olivia Bellamy reluctantly trades a trendy Manhattan summer for her family's old resort camp in the Catskills, where her primary task will be renovating the bungalow colony for her grandparents, who want one last summer together filled with fun, friends and family. A posh resort in its heyday, the camp is now in disarray and Olivia is forced to hire contractor Connor Davis - a still-smoldering flame from her own summers at camp.
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Finding Love at Summer Camp
- De Pamela Dale Foster en 02-13-15
De: Susan Wiggs
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Deal Breaker
- The First Myron Bolitar Novel
- De: Harlan Coben
- Narrado por: Jonathan Marosz
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
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Sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big-time. So is Christian Steele, a rookie quarterback and Myron's prized client. But when Christian gets a phone call from a former girlfriend, a woman who everyone, including the police, believes is dead, the deal starts to go sour. Suddenly Myron is plunged into a baffling mystery of sex and blackmail.
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Deal Breaker
- De Lisa en 07-02-08
De: Harlan Coben
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Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See
- De: Juliann Garey
- Narrado por: Dan Butler
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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In her tour-de-force first novel, Juliann Garey takes us inside the restless mind, ravaged heart, and anguished soul of Greyson Todd, a successful Hollywood studio executive who leaves his wife and young daughter and for a decade travels the world giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he's been forced to keep hidden for almost 20 years.
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Psychosis or Syphilis?
- De Vira en 04-02-13
De: Juliann Garey
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The Colorado Kid
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No one but Stephen King could tell this story about the darkness at the heart of the unknown and our compulsion to investigate the unexplained. With echoes of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon and the work of Graham Greene, one of the world's great storytellers presents a surprising tale that explores the nature of mystery itself.
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Too many reviewers seem to miss the point.
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Later
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The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine—as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.
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Another amazing story
- De Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com en 03-02-21
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Blaze
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Blaze is the story of Clayton Blaisdell, Jr., of the crimes committed against him and the crimes he commits, including his last, the kidnapping of a baby heir worth millions. Blaze has been a slow thinker since childhood, when his father threw him down the stairs and then threw him down again. After escaping an abusive institution for boys when he was a teenager, Blaze hooks up with George, a seasoned criminal who thinks he has all the answers.
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Good story
- De Randall en 04-25-09
De: Richard Bachman, y otros
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Revival
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In a small New England town, over half a century ago, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister. Charles Jacobs, along with his beautiful wife, will transform the local church. The men and boys are all a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls feel the same about Reverend Jacobs - including Jamie’s mother and beloved sister, Claire. With Jamie, the Reverend shares a deeper bond based on a secret obsession.
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Sinister and Classic King
- De David Shear en 11-12-14
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Cell
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- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Campbell Scott
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The cause of the devastation is a phenomenon that will come to be known as The Pulse, and the delivery method is a cell phone. Everyone's cell phone. Clay and the few desperate survivors who join him suddenly find themselves in the pitch-black night of civilization's darkest age, surrounded by chaos, carnage, and a human horde that has been reduced to its basest nature...and then begins to evolve.
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Very, very compelling
- De Vicki en 01-27-06
De: Stephen King
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The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Anne Heche
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Anne Heche reads The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, the story of nine-year-old Trisha McFarland who gets lost in the woods while on a walk with her family. Boston Red Sox closing pitcher Tom Gordon becomes Trisha's imaginary companion - and the key to her survival against an unidentified someone (or some thing) leaving death and destruction in its wake.
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Amber Alert
- De Tango en 03-22-15
De: Stephen King
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The Colorado Kid
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No one but Stephen King could tell this story about the darkness at the heart of the unknown and our compulsion to investigate the unexplained. With echoes of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon and the work of Graham Greene, one of the world's great storytellers presents a surprising tale that explores the nature of mystery itself.
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Too many reviewers seem to miss the point.
- De Amazon Customer en 04-19-06
De: Stephen King
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Later
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Seth Numrich
- Duración: 6 h y 32 m
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The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine—as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.
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Another amazing story
- De Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com en 03-02-21
De: Stephen King
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Blaze
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Blaze is the story of Clayton Blaisdell, Jr., of the crimes committed against him and the crimes he commits, including his last, the kidnapping of a baby heir worth millions. Blaze has been a slow thinker since childhood, when his father threw him down the stairs and then threw him down again. After escaping an abusive institution for boys when he was a teenager, Blaze hooks up with George, a seasoned criminal who thinks he has all the answers.
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Good story
- De Randall en 04-25-09
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Revival
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- Narrado por: David Morse
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
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In a small New England town, over half a century ago, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister. Charles Jacobs, along with his beautiful wife, will transform the local church. The men and boys are all a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls feel the same about Reverend Jacobs - including Jamie’s mother and beloved sister, Claire. With Jamie, the Reverend shares a deeper bond based on a secret obsession.
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Sinister and Classic King
- De David Shear en 11-12-14
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Cell
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The cause of the devastation is a phenomenon that will come to be known as The Pulse, and the delivery method is a cell phone. Everyone's cell phone. Clay and the few desperate survivors who join him suddenly find themselves in the pitch-black night of civilization's darkest age, surrounded by chaos, carnage, and a human horde that has been reduced to its basest nature...and then begins to evolve.
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Very, very compelling
- De Vicki en 01-27-06
De: Stephen King
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The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Anne Heche
- Duración: 6 h y 29 m
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Anne Heche reads The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, the story of nine-year-old Trisha McFarland who gets lost in the woods while on a walk with her family. Boston Red Sox closing pitcher Tom Gordon becomes Trisha's imaginary companion - and the key to her survival against an unidentified someone (or some thing) leaving death and destruction in its wake.
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Amber Alert
- De Tango en 03-22-15
De: Stephen King
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Roadwork
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: G. Valmont Thomas
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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Barton Dawes' unremarkable but comfortable existence suddenly takes a turn for the worst. A new highway extension is being built right over the laundry plant where he works - and right over his home. Dawes isn't the sort of man who will take an insult of this magnitude lying down. His steadfast determination to fight the inevitable course of progress drives his wife and friends away while he tries to face down the uncaring bureaucracy that has destroyed his life.
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Great narrator; awful book
- De Petra47 en 07-24-16
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From a Buick 8
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: James Rebhorn, Bruce Davison, Becky Ann Baker
- Duración: 13 h y 23 m
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Stephen King's first full-length solo novel since Dreamcatcher, the long-awaited From a Buick 8 is "nearly flawless and one terrific entertainment," says Publishers Weekly. A strange car acts as a conduit between our world and some other...and the boogeyman of this creepy story is our collective fascination with deadly things.
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Narration nightmare
- De Randall en 03-24-18
De: Stephen King
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Full Dark, No Stars
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Craig Wasson, Jessica Hecht
- Duración: 14 h y 55 m
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"I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger...." writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up "1922", the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerizing tales from Stephen King. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife, Arlette, proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness.
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Eerie, honest, frightening!
- De 9S en 01-15-11
De: Stephen King
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Hearts in Atlantis
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Stephen King, William Hurt
- Duración: 20 h y 9 m
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All the stories in this collection from Stephen King are related to the Vietnam War. King fans will recognize echoes of The Dark Tower series in the collection's first story, "Low Men in Yellow Coats." As the characters develop over the next four stories, King's version of the Vietnam War becomes one of his most frightening tales ever.
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Touching, Funny - Amazingly well written and read.
- De Kindle Customer en 01-15-03
De: Stephen King
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Lisey's Story
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Mare Winningham
- Duración: 19 h y 21 m
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Lisey lost her husband, Scott, two years ago, after a 25-year marriage of profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was an award-winning, best-selling novelist and a very complicated man. Early in their relationship, before they married, Lisey knew there was a place Scott went - a place that both terrified and healed him, could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed in order to live. Now it’s Lisey’s turn to face Scott’s demons, to go to that terrifying place known as Boo’ya Moon.
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Oh, wow.
- De Joseph en 11-24-08
De: Stephen King
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Elevation
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Stephen King
- Duración: 3 h y 46 m
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Although Scott Carey doesn’t look any different, he’s been steadily losing weight. There are a couple of other odd things, too. He weighs the same in his clothes and out of them, no matter how heavy they are. Scott doesn’t want to be poked and prodded. He mostly just wants someone else to know, and he trusts Doctor Bob Ellis. In the small town of Castle Rock, the setting of many of King’s most iconic stories, Scott is engaged in a low-grade - but escalating - battle with the lesbians next door whose dog regularly drops his business on Scott’s lawn. One of the women is friendly; the other, cold as ice.
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Meh...
- De Wendy en 12-11-18
De: Stephen King
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The Dark Half
- De: Stephen King
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Thad Beaumont would like to say he is innocent. He'd like to say he has nothing to do with the twisted imagination that produced his best-selling novels. He'd like to say he has nothing to do with the series of monstrous murders that keep coming closer to his home. But how can Thad deny the ultimate embodiment of evil that goes by the name he gave it - and signs its crimes with Thad's bloody fingerprints?
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Sparrows
- De Tyler Schnabel en 08-22-16
De: Stephen King
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The Regulators
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
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Peaceful suburbia on Poplar Street in Wentworth, Ohio, takes a turn for the ugly when four vans containing armed "regulators" terrorize the street's residents, cold-bloodedly killing anyone foolish enough to step outside their homes. Houses mysteriously transform into log cabins, and the street now ends in what looks like a child's hand-drawn Western landscape. Masterminding this sudden onslaught is the evil creature Tak, who has taken over the body of an autistic eight-year-old boy, Seth Garin.
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Frank Muller was the best
- De Red1973 en 03-27-16
De: Stephen King
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Gerald's Game
- De: Stephen King
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Gerald and Jessie Burlingame have gone to their summer home on a warm weekday in October for a romantic getaway. After being handcuffed to her bedposts, Jessie tires of her husband's games, but when Gerald refuses to stop, the evening ends with deadly consequences. Still handcuffed, Jessie is trapped and alone. Over the next 28 hours, in the lakeside house that has become a prison, Jessie will come face to face with all the things she has ever feared.
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Please get rid of the sound effects
- De Peeps en 12-29-16
De: Stephen King
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Duma Key
- A Novel
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: John Slattery
- Duración: 21 h
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A terrible accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. When his marriage suddenly ends, Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived his injuries. He wants out. His psychologist suggests a new life distant from the Twin Cities, along with something else.
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Play the Book and Let the Book Play You
- De OldDog en 11-09-09
De: Stephen King
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The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
- Stories
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Stephen King, Dylan Baker, Brooke Bloom, y otros
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A master storyteller at his best - the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. Magnificent, eerie, utterly compelling, these stories comprise one of King's finest gifts to his constant fan. "I made them especially for you," says King. "Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth."
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HE'S A CUP OF COFFEE
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 12-10-15
De: Stephen King
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Just After Sunset
- Stories
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Stephen King, Jill Eikenberry, Holter Graham, y otros
- Duración: 14 h y 49 m
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Just After Sunset - call it dusk, call it twilight, it's a time when human intercourse takes on an unnatural cast, when nothing is quite as it appears, when the imagination begins to reach for shadows as they dissipate to darkness and living daylight can be scared right out of you. It's the perfect time for Stephen King.
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King scores another coup
- De Jeff G. en 03-21-09
De: Stephen King
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Joyland
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- Cynthia
- 06-06-13
King in his Summer Finest
I read Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes" (1962) years ago and never forgot it. I've reread it several times, and always find something new in the story of a traveling carnival lead by Mr. Dark, whose followers are marked by tattoos.
I felt the same way when I listened to Stephen King's "Joyland" (2013), even though the plots of the books are quite different. The atmosphere is the same, and so is the sense of evil. The carnival rides play a key part in both.
"Joyland" is a regional 'Six Flags' type of amusement park, not an international destination like Disneyland. I loved the new 'carny' language I learned. Guess that makes me a 'greenie', but at least I'm not a 'rube' if I know the lingo. That makes this the perfect book for a patient parent to listen to/read if she's been drafted as chaperone on one of those long, hot summer days of not-quite-cutting edge rides, junk food, and sunburned children excited enough to throw up on her shoes.
"Joyland" is a true mystery. Solving the mystery does not rely on the supernatural elements in "Joyland", so mystery fans won't be disappointed by vague clues from beyond being the key to figuring out 'who dunnit'. Finding the killer was no easy task for Devin Jones, the protagonist (aptly narrated by Michael Kelly) and it isn't easy for the listener/reader either.
"Joyland" is also a sweet coming of age story of love lost and love found, set against the backdrop of the most powerful love of all.
This book has some mild, not explicit sex. There is some violence, but it doesn't come near the violence in J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" series. It's good for 'young adult' readers. For Stephen King fans, there are plenty of references to his other works - and it's fun to find them. However, the book stands on its own - you don't need to get the inside joke from King's "The Dead Zone" (1979) to love the story.
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- Mark
- 07-11-13
great Stephen King crime/mystery
I enjoyed this Stephen King novel as much as any I have read of his in a long while. King captures the life of a 21 year-old in 1973. At the center of this novel is an unsolved murder on one of the rides at an amusement park, Joyland. Some claim that the ghost of the murdered woman comes out at times. King drew me in to the time and place, and I liked the fact that there was just a small supernatural twist to this. Mostly, it's a college student and his friends enjoying their summer and trying to solve an old murder on the side. I found myself caring about the main character and the subplots. It's a short, fun, fast-moving novel. The reader is good. Overall, it was a 4.5 star book to me. It's a perfect summer book (light, escape fiction), with a good ending that made me round my rating up to a 5.
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- Tomsde
- 07-02-13
Somewhat Typical
I have had a love/hate relationship with Stephen Kings writings over the years; I either loved or hated many of his books and TV miniseries. In this case Mr. King takes us back to the 1970s in a mystery/horror tale about a young college student struggling to come to grips with the loss of his first love. Mr. King's 70s are a bit anachronistic as he mentions things that either were not prevalent or hadn't been heard of in 1973. Devon Jones, is a bit too sensitive and effeminate for my tastes as the big hero of the piece, and the carnival talk he learns as he works at the Joyland Amusement Park sounds a bit clichéd'. I really couldn't decide if this was supposed to be a mystery, a horror story, or a coming of age story. We have the usual King potboiler cast of characters, the sensitive youth, psychic handicapped child, a somewhat lack-luster psychic who goes around giving Devon dire warning that he doesn't heed, and the ghost of a murdered woman who lives in the haunted house of the park. The performance of the reader was very good and I certainly don't fault him for my mixed emotions about the story. If you are expecting big chills you're bound to be disappointed, but the mystery part of the tale is entertaining without the help from the paranormal part of it.
Final analysis: Joyland is somewhat of a hodge podge of the types of things you've come to expect in a King novel--if you like his usual stick, you'll like this, if you're kind of over the formula than skip it. It rather fails as a mystery novel or a supernatural one--it's a book that didn't know exactly what it wanted to be when it grew up.
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- Jim N
- 06-11-13
A Fine Novel
I like Stephen King's writing, particularly his flair for character, but I've always preferred his shorter work. Some of his novels are so massive and ambitious that for me, they suffer a bit. This lean, tightly written tale doesn't have that problem. It's a coming of age story, a mystery and a ghost story all rolled into one and King's ability to write believable, interesting characters is definitely on display. It's less "hard" than many of the other entries in the Hard Case Crime library but it's the most enjoyable thing I've read or listened to by King in quite some time. I recommend it but not for King fans expecting a horror novel.
Michael Kelly's reading of the book was superb.
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- Jackie
- 06-23-13
A Ghost Story Sweet as Cotton Candy
The idea of a haunted amusement park draws you in and holds you until the end. Who doesn't remember walking through the sleazy and dirty carnivals when we were younger--looking for thrills and fun, the games and the rides--and maybe a kiss in the haunted house?
Devin is the young, innocent boy/man who learns a lot about life that summer in the early 70's. He loses his first love, finds more gratifying sexual fun with an older woman, and helps solve an old murder that happened in the much desired haunted house ride. As it happens a ghost of the murdered woman is still hanging around hoping someone will free her of her prison and solve the mystery surrounding her death.
Devin loves the "carny life" and is a natural at fitting in. He's given a 10 minute lesson on running the rickety rides and then thrown into his jobs to sink or swim. He especially has a gift for making the kids laugh while dressed as a big dog --this is known as "wearing the fur" -- and this becomes his usual gig.
This was a sweeter more innocent era, and a fun story worth the credit. It isn't one of SK's best, nor scariest, but he still has you relishing the memory of those teenage years while delivering a few chills along the way.
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- H James Lucas
- 02-18-14
An infectious performance
Shortly after listening to Joyland the week after its release in the summer of 2013, I gave Michael Kelly's performance three stars. It was professional, it was nicely paced, and it was pleasant, but it didn't blow me away the way that Craig Wasson did with Mr King's previous novel, 11/22/63. Listening to it again now, I can't find anything that directly contradicts that first impression, but in the intervening months, my thoughts have often drifted to Mr Kelly's reading. His quiet performance fits in so perfectly to the canon of Summers Past, where Scout Finch is drinking a Co-Cola, where Gordie and his friends walk the tracks in search of a body, where Radio Raheem blasts Public Enemy from dawn to dusk. Joyland is a nice piece of writing and well representative of Mr King's past decade of work, but it's Mr Kelly's performance that is sticking with me months later in the dead of winter.
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- Bob Dobalina
- 05-05-18
Terrific story and narration
I had not heard much about this book and found it by chance on audible. What a pleasant surprise. Compelling story made even better by a very good narrator. Two thumbs up!
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- Kendall
- 08-14-18
Great fan. Not disapointed
Stephen King is a master story teller. You will enjoy this book from beginning to the end. It made me laugh many times, It also made me cry. Please do not pass this book up.Overall rating for this book should be a 10, but I am only allowed to rate this a 4
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- Erik J. Larsen
- 11-01-13
Very Enjoyable
What did you love best about Joyland?
the details, the narration. King's use of dialog has reached Elmore Leonard skill level.
What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
The story itself was very entertaining, but i would say that it does not pace itself very well. I found that i enjoyed listening to it, but it really isn't until the last third of the book that it gets really, really interesting.
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- Kelly
- 01-24-17
Loved it!
What about Michael Kelly’s performance did you like?
I am pretty sure that I could listen to Michael Kelly read the phonebook and be impressed. This story was already great but it became awesome when read by Michael.
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