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Full Dark, No Stars

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Craig Wasson,Jessica Hecht
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Summary

‘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 mesmerising tales from Stephen King, linked by the theme of retribution. 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.

In 'Big Driver', a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters the stranger is along a back road in Massachusetts when she takes a shortcut home after a book-club engagement. Violated and left for dead, Tess plots a revenge that will bring her face to face with another stranger: the one inside herself.

'Fair Extension', the shortest of these tales, is perhaps the nastiest and certainly the funniest. Making a deal with the devil not only saves Harry Streeter from a fatal cancer but provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment. When her husband of more than 20 years is away on one of his business trips, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up against a box under a worktable, and she discovers the stranger inside her husband. It’s a horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling intensity, and it definitively ends 'A Good Marriage'.

Like Different Seasons and Four Past Midnight, which generated such enduring hit films as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, Full Dark, No Stars proves Stephen King a master of the long-story form.

©2010 Stephen King (P)2010 Simon & Schuster Audio division

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All thriller no killer

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Don't start listening unless you are prepared to fake illness so you can keep listening without interruption for hours at a time. So people are having parties to which you're invited? So it's Monday morning and you have a job? So a giant centipede is crawling across the ceiling above your bed? Tough: you've started listening to this and you have to keep going. Great stories and great readers.

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Slow read

Although the stories were interesting and the characters well rounded and believable, I felt the stories went on just too long - more padding than content.

Under the Dome was a big read, but was fantastic, interesting and I wanted more. With this I wanted it to hurry up and end.

Craig Wasson does an excellent job of narrating the story but I found Jessica Hecht grating and annoying, it was like listening to a computer read, getting the tone wrong and sounding joyful in gloomy bits and vice versa. I found myself losing focus on the story as I began to wonder why she said it that way or this way as it didn't feel right.

If you like full on horror - this is not for you, it's very tame. If you like gentle, roaming stories with huge gaps between action, then you may like it.

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Wow - this is excellent!

My first SK book and I'm looking out for my next as this was superb. All 4 stories were great but the 1st 2 were excellent and the 2nd my favourite. I was on tender hooks and thought it was just as edge of the seat as it would have been had it been on the screen, the narration is flawless, both narrators brought the stories to life and had me hooked.I suggested my son give this a go for his intro to audio and he's hooked now too! Even if you think you're not usually a SK fan you will be after this. One of my favourites now. Highly recommend.

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Superb!

I waited with a huge amount of anticipation for this book of short stories and boy was I not dissapointed. King has the most amazing talent for short stories and I have to admit that while I thouroughly enjoy his novels, I am most in awe of his collection of short stories.

Short stories is perhaps an incorrect discription,they are more like 4 novellas, each stand alone, and what makes them all the more thrilling is that they are about 'ordinary people in extraordinary situations' to quote Steve himself. And to be perfectly true, I could quite imagine actual ordinary people in these situations........perhaps this piece of work is art imitating life, which is very rare in the horror genre.

This is a first class piece of work and dare I say one of Kings finest creations and perhaps my most favourite of all.....early King at his best!!

Get it, even if your not a huge King fan, at least one of these novellas will make you stop in your tracks and wonder....

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Good Yarns, Bad Narration

This is not Stevies finest collection of books, certainly not a patch on Four Past Midnight. But while the yarns are good, two of them are ruined by the sickly narration Jessica Hecht.

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poor

Probably one of the worst SK series of short stories. frustrated at lack of ending for these stories and the characters were humdrum and uninteresting.

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A familiar stranger, makes it all dark.

Short but not sweet stories that are among the best Stephen King has written full of tension, like a wire to the throat, that cuts deep, to the last tug. Well thought out and presented like a tasters meal of macabre concoctions that feel like classics.
Superb narration by both persons.

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Another outstanding compilation

This book contained 4 stories fabulously depicted that even as you read you can't help but want to see them on the big screen if ever a book was made for a movie this was it...

Gloriously dark tales that instantly have you hooked...

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one star or five stars

I could not decide if this deserved one star or five stars. Its a bizzare but wonderful collection.

The characters and situations grab you instantly as only stephen King can, but I felt myself feeling sad, depressed and confused.

But I suppose that is Stephen King for you, drags you into the most intimate parts of people lives and then shatters it.

SO in the end I think 5 stars, I will be thinking of these stories for a long time to come and I suppose that means the book has got to me in some way, so that good...isnt it...im confused

but well worth the time to listen to

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4 great stories

This is a fantastic collection. All four are tightly written, well paced and horrifying. Die hard King fans should really enjoy it. Highly, highly recommended!

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