tuttle300
March 23rd, 2009, 12:26 PM
Throttle is the newest short story by King (co-written with his son, Joe Hill)
I wasn't able to get a copy of the book, "He is Legend " as it was out of my price range (I hate limited editions grrrrr... to me, a signature on a page, while valuable to an extent, can't be read or enjoyed, just collected.) but I did manage to get an audio copy of the story (called Road Rage by Midwest Tape) through my local library.
Throttle AND the classic Duel are on 2 audio discs.
I have to say that this story ranks up there with King's very best short stories of all time. (which is of course, my opinion)
An homage to the classic, Duel, by Richard Matheson, the story is just as much about parents and their children as much as it is about a group of bikers mixed up in some trouble and they are well aware that this is more than likely their final ride together.
King and Hill really get dirty and gritty in this one and you can feel the age of the bikers as well as the heat of the desert as they get chased by an anonymous truck driver and his very large and very dangerous semi.
The reader of the piece, Stephen Lang manages to play all the voices, young and old convincingly.
There is a nice twist at the end of the story as well that really caps the story quite nicely. Kudos to both Stephen and Joe.
I now look forward to "Mortality" which is due out in the July issue of Esquire
as well as the elusive "UR" which is supposed to eventually be available to the non-Kindle-philes and non-iPhon-philes of King's Constant Readership in another month or so, hopefully.
I wasn't able to get a copy of the book, "He is Legend " as it was out of my price range (I hate limited editions grrrrr... to me, a signature on a page, while valuable to an extent, can't be read or enjoyed, just collected.) but I did manage to get an audio copy of the story (called Road Rage by Midwest Tape) through my local library.
Throttle AND the classic Duel are on 2 audio discs.
I have to say that this story ranks up there with King's very best short stories of all time. (which is of course, my opinion)
An homage to the classic, Duel, by Richard Matheson, the story is just as much about parents and their children as much as it is about a group of bikers mixed up in some trouble and they are well aware that this is more than likely their final ride together.
King and Hill really get dirty and gritty in this one and you can feel the age of the bikers as well as the heat of the desert as they get chased by an anonymous truck driver and his very large and very dangerous semi.
The reader of the piece, Stephen Lang manages to play all the voices, young and old convincingly.
There is a nice twist at the end of the story as well that really caps the story quite nicely. Kudos to both Stephen and Joe.
I now look forward to "Mortality" which is due out in the July issue of Esquire
as well as the elusive "UR" which is supposed to eventually be available to the non-Kindle-philes and non-iPhon-philes of King's Constant Readership in another month or so, hopefully.