Helpful Score: 1
A disturbing story by Stephen King and his son, Joe Hill loses a lot in the narration by Stephen Lang. Not sure if it was just me, but I never hear the characters in his voice. I had to really focus to know which character was which while listening to his reading.
The story itself is good (not King's best work, but good), so i would recommend finding this in print and reading it yourself instead of listening to Lang's less than emphatic reading.
The story itself is good (not King's best work, but good), so i would recommend finding this in print and reading it yourself instead of listening to Lang's less than emphatic reading.
As a previous reviewer stated, this book is disturbing. Well, maybe it should be, it's a horror story, plain and simple. Or at least I thought so. It wasn't until I finished it, that it really hit me what bothered me about it. It wasn't the reading, I thought it was just fine. It was the simple fact that there is no depth, no meat, nothing to grab onto mentally. It's written just for the shock value, like the author was just throwing more and more "stuff" at the listener, to see just how much we could take. In my opinion, this is horror without any socially redeeming value to it. It's just well written garbage, and I guess you can tell I didn't like it. Cujo, Carrie, Christine, now there's some really fine horror writing. "...Tall Grass.." pales in comparison.
