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Blood And Smoke Cd
by: Stephen King

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Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780671046170
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
ISBN: 0671046179
Label: Simon & Schuster Audio
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Audio
Number Of Items: 4
Publication Date: January 01, 2000
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Release Date: November 22, 1999
Sales Rank: 407431
Studio: Simon & Schuster Audio

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THREE SHORT STORIES FROM THE MASTER OF MODERN FICTION AVAILABLE ONLY AS AN AUDIOBOOK

Stephen King has forced us to confront our greatest fears. He has guided us through the depths of our imagination to places we never would have ventured alone. Now, in Blood and Smoke, he takes us inside a world of yearning and paranoia, isolation and addiction. It is the world of the smoker.

In this audio-only collection, the now politically incorrect habit plays a key role in the fates of three different men in three unabridged stories of unfiltered suspense.

In Lunch at the Gotham Café, Steve Davis is suffering through intense withdrawal -- from both nicotine and his wife. His desperation for a cigarette and for his ex are almost too much to bear, but that's nothing compared to the horrors that await him at a trendy Manhattan restaurant.

In 1408, Mike Enslin, bestselling author of 'true' ghost stories, decides to spend the night in New York City's most haunted hotel room. But he must live to write about it without the help of his ex best-friends, his trusty smokes.

And in In the Deathroom, a man named Fletcher is held captive in a South American stronghold. His captors will use any tortuous means necessary to extract the information they want from him. His only hope lies with his last request -- one last cigarette, please.

A cartonfull of chills and thrills, Blood and Smoke is classic Stephen King. The most mesmerizing storyteller of our time is at his inventive and compelling best.

Amazon.com Review:
Stephen King had such fun recording the epic, unabridged audio version of his haunting novel Bag of Bones, he decided to publish the three-story collection Blood and Smoke exclusively on audio. They're horror stories, good and dark, loosely linked by the theme of cigarettes and a macabre humor. The flip-top cigarette-box package is amusingly cool, too.

In the first tale, 'Lunch at the Gotham Café,' Steve Davis quits smoking two days after his wife dumps him. King cleverly compares the two kinds of withdrawal: obsession blends with emotional flatness, and you're left 'with a feeling the world has taken on a decidedly dreamy cast.' Driven, Steve meets with his wife and her lawyer at a midtown Manhattan restaurant, where the nightmare begins. 'I was pretty sure something was wrong with the maitre d' almost as soon as I saw him,' says Steve, and gothic café events soon prove him right.

But the gory denouement actually worked better on the page, in the 1995 book Dark Love. King's two new stories, written directly for audio, outdo the first. In '1408,' Mike Enslin, a writer who once studied with Jane Smiley, dreamed of being a Yale Younger Poet, and 'starved on the payroll of The Village Voice,' is reduced to hacking out stuff like '10 Nights in 10 Haunted Houses.' For a follow-up, he visits room 1408 of the film noir-ish Dolphin Hotel. 'Five women and one man have jumped from that room's single window, Mr. Enslin,' notes the proprietor. 'Twelve suicides in 68 years.' Ah, but Mike is wearing his 'lucky Hawaiian shirt--it's the one with the ghost repellent,' and an unlit cigarette is tucked behind his ear.

'In the Deathroom' evokes another scary small space: a bloodstained basement Ministry of Information in which Fletcher, a reporter who quit smoking long ago, asks Escobar and his torturer's assistants--Ramon and a woman who reminds Fletcher of the Bride of Frankenstein--for a last cigarette. Fletcher recognizes the 'we don't need no steenkeeng badges' cliché he's trapped in, and is 'amazed to discover that one's sense of humor ... could function this far into a state of terror.' But when Fletcher takes a drag, 'knowing he might be dead before it burned down to the filter,' you'll be tense. King's nasal, sarcastic delivery puts you right in there with his horrified protagonists. --Tim Appelo

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- commuter listening
Purchased the audio cd for listening to while commuting back and forth to work.....better than being on the cell phone. Not sure if I enjoyed Stephen King's voice narrating as this was my first audio cd. Have been a big Stephen King fan forever....just wanted to get the stories, and the only way was on this audio cd. Although the one story room 1408 sounded familiar as maybe it was published in another book before. Short story format was good for commute since it took about a week to listen to....25 minutes each way, every day

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- Great for a short ride or commute to work
As a pretty big fan of Stephen King, it was nice to find an audio book version of three short stories, making each the perfect companion for a long commute to work or short day trip. The three stories are as follows:

"1408" - The most famous of the stories is about Mike Enslin, a bestselling horror author who doesn't believe in his own profession. He goes from haunted gravesite to hotel to amusement park (inserted for Scooby Doo fans) to disprove the notion that there are spirits, ghosts, poltergeists, or hauntings. He's completely cynical about his job until he makes his way to room 1408 in an upscale NY hotel. While staying the night, Enslin is scared senseless, as the room comes alive and attempts to kill him.

"In The Deathroom" - I think I enjoyed this story the most out of the three. In it, a reporter named Fletcher must deal with Central American interrogators who have no qualms ... Read More

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- Being Mislead
I think some of you may be being mislead. All three of these short stories have been published in the book Everything's Eventual : 14 Dark Tales. It is a good collection of short stories but the site's review and some reader reviews seem to be saying the only way you can get these stories is to buy the expensive audio version which just is not true.

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- When King Reads, You Better Listen Boy!
Stephen King writes short stories that are made for reading outloud, and no one reads them better than King does himself. The audio recording of "1408" outdoes the movie of the same name, while "Lunch at the Gotham Cafe" is bloody entertaining. If you enjoy King's readings, you need to check out the audiobook of King's Bag of Bones, also read by the author.

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