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    5 Stories
    5 Stories
    5 Stories
    Audiobook4 hours

    5 Stories

    Written by Peter Straub

    Narrated by Michael Easton

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    About this audiobook

    “Little Red’s Tango” incorporates a vampire story, miracle legends, a saint’s legend, an epistle, beatitudes, and jazz minutiae within a contemporary faux-gospel.

    “Lapland, or Film Noir” is a journey to a place of the dark, paranoid crime movies made in Los Angeles between 1948 and 1956, which Straub calls “one of the most compelling periods in American film history.”

    “The Geezers” is a fascinating exercise in withholding everything that might explain what the protagonists and their friends were up to, and describing instead their reactions to the consequences of the unstated actions. It is Straub at his best.

    “Donald Duck” is a surreal study of how a family can be changed irrevocably by the decisions of one reckless member.

    The final tale, “Mr. Aickman’s Air Rifle” reveals itself in clever homage as Straub deliberately assumes the mantle of “a great and respected elder, with felonious intentions.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJul 10, 2012
    ISBN9781455830107
    5 Stories
    Author

    Peter Straub

    Peter Straub (1943–2022) was the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels, including A Dark Matter, The Talisman, and Black House, which he cowrote with Stephen King. He has won the Bram Stoker Award for his novels Lost Boy Lost Girl and In the Night Room, as well as for his collection 5 Stories. Straub was the editor of the two-volume Library of American anthology The American Fantastic Tale.

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    • 1/5
      It's exhausting to listen to the narrator. He's trying way too hard to sound cool instead of read it properly and it's irritating. Some people have a naturally husky rough voice like this and it's actually natural and effortless and it sounds amazing. This is not one of those times. "IM BATMAN" vibes. Could barely get through the first 10 minutes. May browse through to find another audiobook by a different narrator.
    • 3/5
      Peter Straub definitely knows how to hook a reader and seduce that person with his writing. Straub's style is poetic and lyrical. He is a master at crafting a scene and pulling the imagery through to the reader. This remains true for his characters too which evolve into fully dimensional characters. With all the images being created, his stories generally take a little while to build up; when they do get that time, they are awesome. This book is a collection of five short stories and unfortunately, none of the stories really have the length that they need to become gripping."Little Red's Tango" is a great character visualization; the short pulls multiple scenes together to illustrate a guy named Little Red. However, there is no story; it could have continued and revealed more of the characters or stopped earlier to reveal less."Lapland, or Film Noir" and "The Geezers" both had more story but not enough to pull me along."Donald, Duck" was the most interesting of the five. It revealed the life of Donald Duck and the rest of the Duck clan as they are beseeched by a Black Widow. A Black Widow that Donald is too love-blind to see.And the final story "Mr. Aickman's Air Rifle" fell into the same problem of not having enough story to actively engage me. The writing is gorgeous and very beautiful to picture but I was hoping for a bit more action to occur.