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I see hole like eyes. My mind is full of them.

Desperation by Stephen King

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Stephen King. Stephen King. Ok. So this is an audiobook edition of the novel from 1996 read by the author. All in all aside from professional actors reading memoirs, some poets, and a few rare birds, authors tend to be terrible reading their work. Stephen King is perfectly adequate. Though this is a long one to stay with him. I wonder as he’s reading this one, one that is a) not that good and b) full of a lot of casual sexual references and sexual […]

…and his name that sat upon him was Death, and Hell followed with him

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Out on a lonely stretch of desert highway, there’s a cop. This cop is not the sort you’d ever want to meet, let alone so far from civilisation, but a bunch of unrelated travellers – a family, a couple, a writer and his road trip manager – are about to do so anyway, and find themselves entering a living nightmare in the aptly named town of Desperation. A lot of this book feels incredibly cinematic, with the images of the open door of the abandoned […]



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