Stephen King – Everything’s Eventual Audiobook

After almost two years, The Good Stephen King Reread is back, and this time I am not stopping until I reach the absolute end. Which is sort of how publishers feel about devoting collections of King’s short stories. You understand their urge to place out absolutely everything King ever wrote because it all makes cash, but sometimes that ends in audio books like Everything’s Eventual. Consisting of of the previously uncollected short stories composed by King, there are no new stories within this audio book. There are a number of excellent stories in EE, a few stinkers, and a handful of well-executed yawns, but the stinkers and yawns outnumber the excellent stories four to one. Stephen King – Everything’s Eventual Audiobook.
In 2007, ” King edited the annual Best American Short Stories collection and stated that it reignited his knack for writing short stories, something he had lost after years of focusing on long novels. I guess the tales in this collection were largely written during that fallow period since ten of the two were composed in a seven year span (1995 — 2001) when he published nine books. Call this The Stephen King Deja Vu Collection because every story in this feels as though you have seen it someplace before.
King’s a big fan of foreshadowing and he often teases viewers with ominous sentences dropped into early chapters that read along the lines of, “Julia Shumway ate the tunafish sandwich, not understanding this would be the last tunafish sandwich she’d ever eat”. Everything’s Eventual Audiobook Free Online. Often he will flash forward in a little character’s life to show they’d die a few weeks later, and as he gets older he frames more of his stories as recollections (in particular The Green Mile, Joyland, even From a Buick 8) allowing the narrator to skip around in time and do this sort of foreshadowing in a natural way. Not surprisingly, EE’s full of tales that deal with bad feelings, premonitions, deja vu, and additionally recycled ideas.
Six Stories was a limited edition King published himself in 1997, and five of the six stories are collected here (the rest narrative, “Blind Willie”, was reworked into 1999’s Hearts in Atlantis). In this one, Howard Cottrell is bitten by a fictitious snake, the Peruvian Boomslang, while golfing, and winds up paralyzed in an autopsy table, not able to tell anyone he’s still alive. It’s well-written but King confesses it is basically “Breakdown”, a 1955 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, just rather than Joseph Cotton crying a single teardrop to allow the pathologist know he’s alive, Howard Cottrell gets a boner. Stephen King – Everything’s Eventual Audiobook Free.

An American folktale written as an homage to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” that is pure, inauthentic corn on a kid going fishing and meeting the devil in the forests. Total of ten dollar words that sense wrong in your mouth, like “propritiate”, even King calls it “pedestrian” and “humdrum”, yet somehow it won the prestigious O. Henry Greatest Short Story competition. We are living in a strange world.

Almost a parody of a New Yorker story, “Everything You Love” is about a depressed salesman sitting out a gloomy snowstorm, in a depressing motel, trying to determine whether to kill himself or not. The narrative ends with his choice left ambiguous, a change requested by the New Yorker fiction editor himself who understands which dials to spin to make a simple story seem more like something that crawled out of an MFA writer’s workshop. The first paragraph of the story describes a snowstorm in great detail. Everything’s Eventual Audiobook Stephen King.

Describing in excruciating detail the slow lingering death of Jack Hamilton, a member of John Dillinger’s gang, whose gunshot wound goes gangrenous. King’s always wanted to become a crime writer, and has a great deal of admiration for simple masters such as Donald E. Westlake. As far back as Skeleton Crew he has been including crime stories in his selections, like “The Wedding Gig” and “The Fifth Quarter”, an urge which will culminate with his Mr. Mercedes trilogy.
First collected as part of an audioaudio publication, this really is a pulpy guys’s adventure-style story about a guy being tortured at a South American prison because the evil government minions think he understands information about a neighborhood freedom fighter. Stephen King Everything’s Eventual Audiobook Dpwnload. A fast timekiller with predictable mechanisms (guy is tortured with electricity that is introduced in leering fashion, evil woman is “a bitch”, a cigarette in the first pages pays off in the subsequent pages) King says he wanted to take this type of predictable story and write a model where the man being tortured gets off. Well, he did. And it is.
It quenched their thirst through a long dry spell, but has come to be somewhat overrated for what is basically a variant of the Clint Eastwood movie The Beguiled only with extra bugs and witches. By this stage in his profession, it is very hard for King to write poorly, and thus this story is a totally nice way to spend an hour or two, but it also feels plastic and thin, probably because it along with almost any story in this collection, feels just like a riff on a preexisting piece of pop culture rather something taken from life. Consider EE as a Stephen King waxworks screen.
He is hired as a worker of the massive and mysterious Trans Corporation. Later, long after the reader has done thus he figures out that they’re using his powers to destroy good people by sending them email. He quits. It’s a perfectly pleasant story about people being isolated from the harm their work does from the corporate structures that they belong to, and after six so-so stories it’s something of a relief if it’s not going to change anybody’s life. Stephen King – Everything’s Eventual Audiobook.
A wife buys her husband a puppy, and it hates him. He buys her kitty, and it comes to hate her. Then the spouse is killed by a serial killer. King says its his favorite in the group and he enjoys to see it at public appearances because it will get the audience laughing, but with a four-page description of a dog and cat fighting, and two pages devoted to a dog throwing up on a guy’s slippers, it feels padded. The ending turns unexpectedly depression, which is fine, but what that I remember the most from this one is a horrible contempt it shows for the working class characters. Nobody writes blue collar folks with clear-eyed respect and dignity like King, so it’s surprising to see so many jokes about Elvis paintings and SPAM mill jobs made at the expense of this narrative’s working class characters. People may laugh at the readings, but I wonder whether they’re laughing at these characters rather than with them?

According to a painting King possesses that everybody else in his family finds creepy, this can be another King story about a magic picture that changes, along the very same lines as M.R. James’s “The Mezzotint.” The owner of this film realizes that the picture is changing since the unsettling individual it simplifies approaches his house. Stephen King – Everything’s Eventual Audiobook Free. This idea was also the cornerstone of King’s novella “The Sun Dog” in 1990’s Four Past Midnight, but there was a Polaroid camera as opposed to a painting.
Eventually: the good stuff. This story, as well as the three which follow would be the very best from the sound book. Written with a hallucinatory clarity, it is set at a spotlessly polished Upper East Side restaurant that descends into bloody chaos as the maître d’ goes mad. The narrator is stretched (he is finalizing his divorce with his wife over lunch with her attorney) and he just gave up smoking after puffing a pack-a-day for 20 decades. King knows what it is like to stop smoking, and the whole story throbs like a blinding headache. Stuffed to bursting with frustration, miscommunication, and guilt, it eventually erupts in violence. It’s over-the-top, gory, gruesome, and pretty much perfect.

King’s got four stories he wrote for the New Yorker in here, which is the very best of the bunch. A girl and her husband are driving into their holiday location in Florida, a setting that pops up in King’s fiction since 1997 when he began spending off winters. It’s only a husband and a wife in a vehicle, but also not really, and it’s untangling what’s going on that makes this one an enjoyable puzzle. Everything’s Eventual Audiobook Download.

Although, as King says in the narrative intro, this is his version of the well-worn haunted resort tale (a genre that he helped create famous with The Shining) it is also among the better stories in this group and it led to his second-highest-grossing film of all time, 1408. A writer spends the night in a haunted hotel that turns out to become super-haunted. It’s that easy, but King rips it out of the park. In a audio book full of retold tales and riffs on familiar tales, that intuition reaches full bloom within this brief story filled with familiarity and foreshadowing. And it finishes with a guy recovering from a dreadful injury pondering the sunset, a picture that could pop up nine decades later in one of his very best novels from this period, Duma Key. Stephen King – Everything’s Eventual Audiobook.

A story about a hotel maid who finds a lucky quarter and uses it to get wealthy in a casino, then it turns out to have been a dream…or was it? Nothing wrong with it, but it is a short bit of fluff that does nothing more than finish the sound book and keep King’s obsession with the word “booger.”
King was a changed writer by the time that this audio book was published, his catastrophic accident in 1999 having made him deeply acquainted with the vocabulary of the fragility of the human body, each of which deeply inform Dreamcatcher. He was about to set the Dark Tower epic behind him and move on to other audio books, entering a late interval which is really really interesting. I would put this in the bottom of the pile for short stories but it’s really only simple statistics. Keep publishing King’s short stories for long enough and you’re bound to end up with a collection that’s not very great. It is certain to take place, eventually. Stephen King – Everything’s Eventual Audiobook.