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The Langoliers

Four Past Midnight, Book 1

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The Langoliers

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Willem Dafoe
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About this listen

Number one best-selling author Stephen King's unforgettable novella - first included in his 1990 award-winning collection Four Past Midnight and made into a highly acclaimed miniseries - about a terrifying plane ride into a most unfriendly sky is now available as a stand-alone publication.

The flight attendants were gone; almost all the passengers were gone; Brian Engle was willing to bet the 767's two-man cockpit crew was also gone. He believed Flight 29 was heading east on automatic pilot.

On a red-eye flight from LA to Boston, 10 passengers wake up to discover everyone else has disappeared. Brian Engle, a trained pilot, remembers something about a strange aurora borealis and turbulence reports over the desert. Now he has to try to land the plane.

But the safe haven of Bangor airport is not what it seems. It's eerily empty. The clocks have stopped. The food and drink is tasteless. The fuel doesn't burn. And the sound, like 'radio static', is getting closer. Craig Toomy, an investment banker, believes he knows what's coming. The Langoliers. Which means time is, quite literally, running out....

A spine-tingling, propulsive novella, The Langoliers is a brilliant listen from the masterful Stephen King.

©1990 Stephen King (P)1990 Simon & Schuster Audio Fantasy Genre Fiction Horror Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Paranormal Fiction Aviation Scary Exciting

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First of all, the narration by Willem Dafoe is as good as you would expect, the problem is that a goodly chunk of Chapter 6 is missing. In the middle of a conversation, the recording jumps to the beginning of Chapter 7, Audible have been made aware of the issue. PE

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Each time the English character is voiced it ruins the scene and I'm taken out of the story through distraction, not only is the pronunciation too bad to ignore, at times it's almost incomprehensible (flukkie/flukey).

English accent ruins it

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The TV dramatisation was my first exposure to Stephen King in the 90’s, I love it. And the book absolutely did not disappoint

Love this story

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One of King's best and extremely dodgy English character accent aside, Willem Dafoe is a great narrator.

King Dafoe

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I really enjoyed this book . I'm a big fan of Stephen King and wasn't disappointed. I liked the way the story was quite gripping from the outset with a little less back story for a SK book and the idea of waking up to a virtually empty plane was brilliant and had me hooked as to what would happen .
My only criticism would be the narration on this one like others have mentioned. I love Willem Dafoe as an actor but I found he didn't pull off the different accents and characters very well in this . But still worth a listen !

loved the story .

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