Hill, Joe. Heart-shaped box.HILL, Joe. Heart-shaped box. Read by Stephen Lang Stephen Lang is:
Aging rocker Jude Coyne is a collector of the macabre ma·ca·bre adj. 1. Suggesting the horror of death and decay; gruesome: macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle Ages. See Synonyms at ghastly. 2. . He also collects a seemingly endless string of short-term live-in girlfriends he refers to only by their state of origin. Currently he's hooked up with Georgia, a former exotic dancer and druggie drug·gie also drug·gy n. pl. drug·gies Slang One that takes or is addicted to drugs: "They're like druggies, but without drugs; they're drugged on their own apathy" . When he's conned into purchasing a ghost, via a rigged online auction, he and Georgia become locked in a battle to survive. His spooky purchase turns out to be the ghost of the stepfather of a former girlfriend--a woman who may have been mentally unbalanced and who may have killed herself. Jude's past opens for review as he fights his seemingly indestructible in·de·struc·ti·ble adj. Impossible to destroy: indestructible furniture; indestructible faith. [Late Latin ind and hell-bent spectral enemy. The tale takes the listener from a feel-scared mood to an eventual feel-good one. Hill, author Stephen King's son, shows great promise here, and creates vividly colorful images of supernatural occurrences with style and dash. Lang reads with fitting ghostly solemnity SOLEMNITY. The formality established by law to render a contract, agreement, or other act valid. 2. A marriage, for example, would not be valid if made in jest, and without solemnity. Vide Marriage, and Dig. 4, 1, 7; Id. 45, 1, 30. and he is adept at portraying female voices, while maintaining an appropriately somber mood throughout the story. Miles Klein, Frisco, TX A--Recommended for advanced students and adults. This code will help librarians and teachers working in high schools where there are honors and advanced placement students. This also will help extend KLIATT's usefulness in public libraries. |
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