![]() ![]() Among prestigious awards, he is a recipient of the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and the 2014 National Medal of Arts. Stephen King is the author of more than 50 novels, many of them works of horror and all of them worldwide best sellers. Like his predecessor, Guidall masterfully voices the intrigue, adventure, and danger of The Dark Tower. ![]() ![]() George Guidall, a prolific Audie Award-winning narrator, took over the series after Muller’s death. Frank Muller, an acclaimed master of narration and Audie Award winner, was hand-picked by King to read his books, and here he pulls out all the stops. Two masters of narration, personally chosen by Stephen King, command this epic series. In seven volumes written over a 30-year span, The Dark Tower follows Roland on his quest through parallel worlds and into the unimaginable, encountering unexpected allies and evil forces along the way. Roland sets out in search of the Dark Tower, the nexus of the universe, which, he believes, holds the key to the world’s unsettling state. Roland of Gilead is the last gunslinger to walk the earth before the world “moved on” to raging wars, vanishing cities, and oddly flowing time. I'll probably now have to read/listen to 'The Stand', 'The Shining', 'Cujo', and a handful of the other pillars of horror thrown upon us by Maine's Dark King.Stephen King’s magnum opus, The Dark Tower masterfully mixes horror, fantasy, and the Wild West! He recognized early that true horror isn't born from just blood or a knife, but from the emotions and fanaticisms and the brain. He possesses/ed a certain vision and creative ability to mine all the dark, dank and soft corners. This, the earliest of King's novels, shows clear sign that King was always more than just your run-of-the-mill hypergraphic. So, I've been waiting patiently and now I've finished 'Carrie' and it was about what I expected. I don't want to just know 'Carrie' by the movie (or I guess movies and a musical is more technically correct). But there is also this strange magnetism of his work. While following the deserted I-70 toward a distant glass palace, they hear the atonal. They have soaked into the collective consciousness. Roland, Eddie, Susannah, Jake, and Jake’s pet bumbler survive Blaine the Mono’s final crash, only to find themselves stranded in an alternate version of Topeka, Kansas, one that has been ravaged by the superflu virus. Some of his better known novels seemed a bit like a redundant read. I've read a couple of his mid-career "also" novels (The Dark Half, Needful Things, etc). True sorrow is as rare as true love.” ― Stephen King, Carrie There is a giant, dark gap in my reading history where Stephen King belongs. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. “Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. And just how cruelness to others can bring out the worse in people who are actually good, but pushed to the brink of madness. I don't see Carrie as a horror book or movie, I see it as a tragedy. Perhaps because I was about their age when it came, out, and years of life can give you a new sense of understanding. Despite the fact I read it years ago, it was more enchanting and captivating then before. I couldn't resist listening to this book again especially with Sissy Spacek as the reader. I also have read most of Stephen Kings books, including this one years ago. I actually watch this film when it came out. A moment of what I felt was guilt, love, and friendship, and perhaps for Sue growing up. The ending, when Sue and Carrie were together. Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you? She is great, and considering she starred in the original movie, I think she connected to this book in a personal way Have you listened to any of Sissy Spacek’s other performances before? How does this one compare? How detailed it was, it actually made you connect to the characters and understand the unfolding of a tragedy Where does Carrie rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far? The best of Stephen Kings books, and to think he a ![]()
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