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Summary: Sound leaves much to be desired
Review: As a person who purchases over $800 worth of audio products each year I can say I have some experience in regards to audiobooks. As far as production goes this book is pretty good. The sound effects are nicely done and some of the actors play their roll well. Waht fails for me is the story. I mean folks its been done before over and over and over and over again. Of course there is the added annoyance of the kid's voice and that one cheap sexual encounter. Add the abrupt ending and what do you have left? An audiobook full of great sound and sound effects and nothing much else. If you want something a bit more better, try the audio play version of Pet sematary done by the BBC; that one is much better and a whole lot more scarier then this mess. My copy ended up in the garbage after all.
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Summary: Formulaic and lame
Review: As a person who purchases over $800 worth of audio products each year I can say I have some experience in regards to audiobooks. As far as production goes this book is pretty good. The sound effects are nicely done and some of the actors play their roll well. Waht fails for me is the story. I mean folks its been done before over and over and over and over again. Of course there is the added annoyance of the kid's voice and that one cheap sexual encounter. Add the abrupt ending and what do you have left? An audiobook full of great sound and sound effects and nothing much else. If you want something a bit more better, try the audio play version of Pet sematary done by the BBC; that one is much better and a whole lot more scarier then this mess. My copy ended up in the garbage after all.
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Summary: Bad Handling of a Great Story
Review: I am a big Stephen King fan, and have really enjoyed other audiobooks of his. So, I was excited when I saw a cassette of "The Mist," a novella which I thought was excellent. Well, I was doomed to be disappointed by this tape. It starts out by informing the listener that it was recorded in 3-D sound. Indeed, it does sound a little more textured than the usual audiobook. But I think it was a big mistake to read it as a play. I think the listener would have gotten a lot more out of it if it was read straight from the book. You see, in the process of rewriting it for the audio book, they changed the integrity of the story. In the cassette, David Drayton and his wife yell at each other like shrews, and their son sounds like somebody is pinching his nose shut while he talks. Another irritant: all the pitches for name brand foods. "Here, have some Post Toasties!" "How 'bout some Ruffles Potato Chips." I don't know if this was intentional or not, but it certainly wasn't in the book, and it was enough to make me want to gag. One more thing; true, the 3-D sound is neat, but it is not good to listen to while you're driving. Nobody in the car will be satisfied with how well they can hear. All in all, avoid this audiobook. Reading the story will let you absorb the atmosphere much, much better.
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Summary: Bad Handling of a Great Story
Review: I am a big Stephen King fan, and have really enjoyed other audiobooks of his. So, I was excited when I saw a cassette of "The Mist," a novella which I thought was excellent. Well, I was doomed to be disappointed by this tape. It starts out by informing the listener that it was recorded in 3-D sound. Indeed, it does sound a little more textured than the usual audiobook. But I think it was a big mistake to read it as a play. I think the listener would have gotten a lot more out of it if it was read straight from the book. You see, in the process of rewriting it for the audio book, they changed the integrity of the story. In the cassette, David Drayton and his wife yell at each other like shrews, and their son sounds like somebody is pinching his nose shut while he talks. Another irritant: all the pitches for name brand foods. "Here, have some Post Toasties!" "How 'bout some Ruffles Potato Chips." I don't know if this was intentional or not, but it certainly wasn't in the book, and it was enough to make me want to gag. One more thing; true, the 3-D sound is neat, but it is not good to listen to while you're driving. Nobody in the car will be satisfied with how well they can hear. All in all, avoid this audiobook. Reading the story will let you absorb the atmosphere much, much better.
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Summary: Awsom and Spookie !
Review: I love this audio book! I was listening to it one night when it was storming out and it got me going ! I had to sleep with my little girls night light on! The naration is very well done and the sound affects are masterfully done to creat a real environment! It pulls you into the story and trans ports you into the happinings! I think everyone should own this one! I can't stop listening to it!
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Summary: Awsom and Spookie !
Review: I love this audio book! I was listening to it one night when it was storming out and it got me going ! I had to sleep with my little girls night light on! The naration is very well done and the sound affects are masterfully done to creat a real environment! It pulls you into the story and trans ports you into the happinings! I think everyone should own this one! I can't stop listening to it!
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Summary: A Great Short Story Turned to Trash
Review: I loved this short story when I read it, but this so-called "3-D" version of the story on audio tape cut out essential scenes, sounds cheap, and was poorly cast. If you liked the story or if you like Stephen King at all, don't punish yourself with this audio book.
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Summary: Not enough
Review: I've been an avid Stephen King fan since he wrote under Richard Bachman. This book was good but could have been better and the story more evolved. The abrupt ending was a letdown. But otherwise kept me on the edge -- as always.
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Summary: Stephen King Fan, greatly disappointed.
Review: Imagine my suprise when I found "The Mist" on Amazon.com, I have been looking for this recording for years. I ordered it immediately. I got it today and couldn't wait to sit down and listen to it. Though the 3-D sound was incredible the story lacked substance and seemed to jump all over the place. In one part a man is trapped in a store with his son, his wife is at home miles away and probably dead, so he decides to sleep with another woman. What this had to do with the story or the plot is beyond me.Don't get me wrong, I've been a Stephen King fan since I first started reading thrillers, you could even say that he is my favorite writer. But, "The Mist" is nothing like anything by Mr. King that I have ever heard before. I was disappointed. Maybe it was the medium used to deliver the story that disappointed me? If it were in book form I might have been able to "crawl into" or "become part" of the story and then I may h! ave enjoyed it.
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Summary: I think I was listening to a series of product commecials...
Review: My previous experience with audiobooks hasn't been all that great, so I decided to try something shorter and by an author I'd also read. "The Mist" was my choice, and it was an unfortunate choice.
I have to wonder whether or not there was much corporate sponsorship in the making of this audiobook. For one, at the sight of a mutated insect-monster set aflame trying to put itself out by smashing into the sauces aisle of a supermarket the reaction is not shock or dismay. It's literally a character moaning that there's "Ragu and Prego everywhere!" Uh, what? Ruffles, Bud Light, many products get quite a bit of audio-time.
The story itself was likely a good one: after a quick storm, people find themselves trapped inside a grocery store, surrounded by a thick mist, and monstrous horrors attack and kill anyone who steps out into the horrible thick fog. But alas, the voices chosen for the characters were very poor -especially the apparently sinous-infected young boy, and the reactions of the voice-overs to the attacks are just as bad -"Oh my god, get it off me!" never sounded so flat as on this tape.
I'm not done with trying audiobooks quite yet, but I'm beginning to think it's just a genre not for me. At the very least, I suggest that if you, too, are flirting with the audiobook, try something by Stuart MacLean, not Stephen King. Certainly not, "The Mist."
'Nathan
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