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Summary: Not bad
Review: Every time Dick smokes, his wife is given a shock and his retarded son is given a severe beating.
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Summary: great short story
Review: GREAT BOOK...THIS SHORT STORIE DESERVES TO BE MADE INTO A FEATURE FILM...IT HAS GREAT POTENTIAL. JSUT LIKE MOST OF THE SHORT STORIES FROM THE NIGHT SHIFT COLLECTION, QUITTERS INC GIVES THE READER A NICE CHANGE OF PACE ALWAYS UTILIZING KING'S OWN SINGULAR STYLE...I RECOMMEND THIS COMPILATION OF SHORT STORIES TO BE READ BY READERS WHO ARE NOT VERY FAMILIAR WITH KINGS STYLE....
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Summary: great short story
Review: GREAT BOOK...THIS SHORT STORIE DESERVES TO BE MADE INTO A FEATURE FILM...IT HAS GREAT POTENTIAL. JSUT LIKE MOST OF THE SHORT STORIES FROM THE NIGHT SHIFT COLLECTION, QUITTERS INC GIVES THE READER A NICE CHANGE OF PACE ALWAYS UTILIZING KING'S OWN SINGULAR STYLE...I RECOMMEND THIS COMPILATION OF SHORT STORIES TO BE READ BY READERS WHO ARE NOT VERY FAMILIAR WITH KINGS STYLE....
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Summary: a sure-fire way to quit smoking
Review: I'm not a smoker, but this story helped me understand what smokers really go through when they try to quit. Even with his wife and his son on the line, the main character still reaches for his cigarettes. A great story.
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Summary: This is...pragmatic.
Review: It looks like I'm the lone commentator. NEway, this book is about a guy who really, really wants to quit smoking...but. He's addicted and he just can't get off. He goes to this place, Quitters, Inc (hence the title) and they make him quit, literally, make him! All +s up to a thrilling ride. Nice nice nice. -=Dazz=-
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Summary: This is...pragmatic.
Review: It looks like I'm the lone commentator. NEway, this book is about a guy who really, really wants to quit smoking...but. He's addicted and he just can't get off. He goes to this place, Quitters, Inc (hence the title) and they make him quit, literally, make him! All +s up to a thrilling ride. Nice nice nice. -=Dazz=-
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Summary: I can't believe King wrote this!
Review: It's hilarious! A surefire way to quit smoking...I wish there was a Quitter's Inc. in Seattle!
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Summary: Stephen King tells YOU how to quit smoking for good...
Review: Psychologists, chemists, and other scientists have all endeavored to find various ways of helping people to quit smoking. But it takes a master of horror like Stephen King to come up with a foolproof way for getting addicted smokers to stop that the world is just not ready yet to accept. That is the simple genius of "Quitter's Inc." the classic King short story read by Eric Roberts. Dick Morrison is trying once again to stop smoking and on a tip from a friend shows up at the doors of Quitter's Inc." "Quitter's Inc." is a one-joke story, but King comes up with a great joke. The company has a shockingly simple way of "persuading" smokers to quit with contingencies for each and every occasion. Dick might think he can outsmart Quitter's Inc., but he does not stand a chance, and that is what makes this story a treat. Because this is a Stephen King story there is an assumption that the motivation because this successful program is obviously fear, but King explicitly points to another emotion, declaring: "Love is the most pernicious drug of all. Let the romantics debate its existence. Pragmatists know it and use it." An audiotape with a single short story on it seems a bit sparse, but there is a pragmatic reason for this approach. If you want somebody you know who smokes to read this story as a way of inspiring them to quit, you can certainly tied them to chair, but you cannot make them read something they do not want to read. With this audiotape you can make them listen, as long as their hands are tied in such a way that they cannot cover their ears. You could, of course, simply read the story out loud to them yourself, but chances are you are not as good as Erik Roberts. Besides, if you are reading the book you cannot keep an eye on them to make sure they do not struggle free from their bonds.
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Summary: Stephen King tells YOU how to quit smoking for good...
Review: Psychologists, chemists, and other scientists have all endeavored to find various ways of helping people to quit smoking. But it takes a master of horror like Stephen King to come up with a foolproof way for getting addicted smokers to stop that the world is just not ready yet to accept. That is the simple genius of "Quitter's Inc." the classic King short story read by Eric Roberts. Dick Morrison is trying once again to stop smoking and on a tip from a friend shows up at the doors of Quitter's Inc." "Quitter's Inc." is a one-joke story, but King comes up with a great joke. The company has a shockingly simple way of "persuading" smokers to quit with contingencies for each and every occasion. Dick might think he can outsmart Quitter's Inc., but he does not stand a chance, and that is what makes this story a treat. Because this is a Stephen King story there is an assumption that the motivation because this successful program is obviously fear, but King explicitly points to another emotion, declaring: "Love is the most pernicious drug of all. Let the romantics debate its existence. Pragmatists know it and use it." An audiotape with a single short story on it seems a bit sparse, but there is a pragmatic reason for this approach. If you want somebody you know who smokes to read this story as a way of inspiring them to quit, you can certainly tied them to chair, but you cannot make them read something they do not want to read. With this audiotape you can make them listen, as long as their hands are tied in such a way that they cannot cover their ears. You could, of course, simply read the story out loud to them yourself, but chances are you are not as good as Erik Roberts. Besides, if you are reading the book you cannot keep an eye on them to make sure they do not struggle free from their bonds.
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Summary: Brilliant Comedy and Tragedy
Review: Stephen King just may be America's greatest writer of the later half of the 20th century. I loved Quitter's Inc. It was funny, but I'm not completely sure King had wanted that. It was more satire of how obssesed people have come on trying to overcome their addiction and parts of themselves they hate. It was wonderful.
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