Strawberry Spring
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This is a podcast based on a short story. I really should not be adding it to my 2022 list. Unless a podcast is super long and time consuming, I normally do not add them. But, since I endured this thing to the end, it's going on here. I endured it while I was pulling weeds and weed whacking. I hate whacking weeds.
Why do I make myself finish Stephen King stuff? Why? Someday my eyes are going to get stuck in the back of my head from the rolling. This was no different. From the cardboard cut, idiotic characters (including the always present pre-Carrie King in the story) to the screeching anachronisms (is this the 70s or the 50s?). I gritted my teeth and endured.
Then came the last episode and reveal. WTF. I should have taken out the ear show more buds much, much sooner.
As an aside, there was nothing wrong with the voice actors or the sound production. They were good, in fact. I wish I could rate this higher, but this is GoodReads, not a podcast site. The story and script was just bad, bad, bad.
I pulled out a piece of whacking string from my pants yesterday. I have a scratch and bruise that will leave a scar. Maybe I'll look at it when I am tempted to read or listen to another King piece. show less
Why do I make myself finish Stephen King stuff? Why? Someday my eyes are going to get stuck in the back of my head from the rolling. This was no different. From the cardboard cut, idiotic characters (including the always present pre-Carrie King in the story) to the screeching anachronisms (is this the 70s or the 50s?). I gritted my teeth and endured.
Then came the last episode and reveal. WTF. I should have taken out the ear show more buds much, much sooner.
As an aside, there was nothing wrong with the voice actors or the sound production. They were good, in fact. I wish I could rate this higher, but this is GoodReads, not a podcast site. The story and script was just bad, bad, bad.
I pulled out a piece of whacking string from my pants yesterday. I have a scratch and bruise that will leave a scar. Maybe I'll look at it when I am tempted to read or listen to another King piece. show less
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Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21, 1947. After graduating with a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Maine at Orono in 1970, he became a teacher. His spare time was spent writing short stories and novels. King's first novel would never have been published if not for his wife. She removed the first few show more chapters from the garbage after King had thrown them away in frustration. Three months later, he received a $2,500 advance from Doubleday Publishing for the book that went on to sell a modest 13,000 hardcover copies. That book, Carrie, was about a girl with telekinetic powers who is tormented by bullies at school. She uses her power, in turn, to torment and eventually destroy her mean-spirited classmates. When United Artists released the film version in 1976, it was a critical and commercial success. The paperback version of the book, released after the movie, went on to sell more than two-and-a-half million copies. Many of King's other horror novels have been adapted into movies, including The Shining, Firestarter, Pet Semetary, Cujo, Misery, The Stand, and The Tommyknockers. Under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, King has written the books The Running Man, The Regulators, Thinner, The Long Walk, Roadwork, Rage, and It. He is number 2 on the Hollywood Reporter's '25 Most Powerful Authors' 2016 list. King is one of the world's most successful writers, with more than 100 million copies of his works in print. Many of his books have been translated into foreign languages, and he writes new books at a rate of about one per year. In 2003, he received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. In 2012 his title, The Wind Through the Keyhole made The New York Times Best Seller List. King's title's Mr. Mercedes and Revival made The New York Times Best Seller List in 2014. He won the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 2015 for Best Novel with Mr. Mercedes. King's title Finders Keepers made the New York Times bestseller list in 2015. Sleeping Beauties is his latest 2017 New York Times bestseller. (Bowker Author Biography) Stephen King is the author of more than thirty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Among his most recent are "Hearts in Atlantis", "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon", "Bag of Bones", & "The Green Mile". "On Writing" is his first book of nonfiction since "Danse Macabre", published in 1981. He served as a judge for Prize Stories: The Best of 1999, The O. Henry Awards. He lives in Bangor, Maine with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. King's book, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: Stories, made the 2015 New York Times bestseller list. (Publisher Provided) show less
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