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Full Throttle

Contains IN THE TALL GRASS, now on Netflix!

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Full Throttle

By: Joe Hill
Narrated by: Ashleigh Cummings, Connor Jessup, George Guidall, Joe Hill, Kate Mulgrew, Laysla De Oliveira, Nate Corddry, Neil Gaiman, Stephen Lang, Wil Wheaton, Zachary Quinto
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Eleven short stories from award-winning author Joe Hill, building on the success of his blockbuster novels. Some new, some previously published, all terrifying.

Includes FULL THROTTLE and IN THE TALL GRASS, both collaborations with Stephen King and both being filmed at the time of writing.©2016 Joe Hill Anthologies & Short Stories Fantasy Fiction Horror Short Stories Scary
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Critic reviews

The poet laureate of everyday terrors returns with a baker's dozen of deliciously sinister tales. . . . Miniature masterworks of modern horror, proving that life is hard, weird, and always fatal
In his new collection of short stories, Joe Hill shows how insanely good he is at shocking, terrible, whoa, cover-your-mouth-and-gasp endings . . . Seamless and finely crafted work
This collection cements Hill's reputation as a versatile master of scares both subtle and shocking
Full Throttle is a great collection and just more proof that Hill is one of the great storytellers of the early 21st century. Highly recommended
This new collection of short fiction by acclaimed horror and suspense writer Joe Hill proves that Hill can do it all
Hill calls to mind Harlan Ellison at his absolute best, with a penchant for cruel characters learning hard truths
I found this to be an incredibly strong collection. While I think that Full Throttle would be worth purchasing for "Late Returns" alone, there are a host of great stories here. And they're varied enough that there's something here for just about everyone
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As always Joe pulls it out of the bag with this mixed bag of tales. They’re all brilliantly brought to life by the readers who have been chosen perfectly for this audiobook.

Beautiful works

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some really good stories here.... a few of which have been made tv or movies..... I would love to see Thorne come to screen.

Great collection

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I really enjoyed late returns and faun
The others were enjoyable, I really struggled with a couple of them and that meant it’s taken me over 1 year to finish. Never really had me hooked to pick it back up.

For that reason I can’t quite give it a great rating I put that down to some of the stories not being for me. They are good value for your credit and you may get more mileage out of and the mix of narrator’s was something I liked.

A good collection of short stories

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Awful amateurish performance and writing. I was sucked in by the all-star cast, but after two chapters I just couldn't stand any more.

I don't know who the narrator of the second chapter is, but after a good 30 seconds of him doing an impression of a truck horn getting louder, I just switched it off and refunded. It was like listening to a two year old who'd had too much sugar. Why would you pay for this amateur-hour drivel?

And then the writing. Open with some childish, unnecessarily prolonged, 15 minute step-by-step gloryification of some essentially everyday event: a road accident. But with little annoying quips thrown in that shows the author's appalling lack of knowledge and research... "It was like the truck was supercharged! Was it even possible to supercharge a semi?!" Erm dude... all modern "semi" tractor units are. That's what "turbo" is short for, you berk: turbine-driven supercharger. Stupid thing to say on so many levels.

Nah, just awful. Jarring narration and disappointingly second-rate story-telling. Never got to hearing Zach Quinto or Kate Mulgrew. Hang on, Wil Wheaton as well? Was he just at the Star Trek bus stop so they trawled him up in the same net?

Amateurish

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I was looking forward to listening to this. Being an avid Stephen King fan, (well, certainly his earlier stuff anyway), I thought this would be interesting.
Unfortunately, the stories weren’t scary and thrilling or even particularly eventful. I actually fell asleep listening to a couple of them. I guess if I had to pick any, “In the tall grass” wasn’t too bad and “You are released”, although the ending of the latter happened just as the story was getting interesting.

The voice performances were pretty good, for the most part, although the voice of the kid in “The the Tall Grass”, was like fingernails down a blackboard, and not in a scary way.

So, to sum up, it didn’t do it for me I’m afraid. I wanted scares but I got mostly snores.

A bit boring, sadly.

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