The Stand Audio now available


The Stand became available on audio today.  HERE is the audible edition.

47 hrs and 41 mins
Read by Grover Gardner

Yes, I am very happy. 

Now, wher is Pet Sematary?
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13 comments:

  1. Bryant BurnetteFebruary 14, 2012 at 12:37 AM

    I hope to someday be able to get my hands of Frank Muller's version of "The Mist."

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  2. Bryant BurnetteFebruary 14, 2012 at 12:38 AM

    Make that "get my hands ON" Frank Muller's version. Stupid typos!

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 14, 2012 at 8:13 AM

    And the Dead Zone and the other stories from Skeleton Crew and Night Shift.
    I hope the quality is good, I don't trust audible.

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    1. David SquyresFebruary 14, 2012 at 8:22 AM

      Oh yeah! Dead Zone would b awesome. And those old stories from Skeleton Crew.

      I have not had problems with quality at audible. ?

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    2. AnonymousFebruary 14, 2012 at 9:03 AM

      Some of their stuff are just cassette tape rips rather than the re-mastered cd versions. But they sell them at the same price.
      http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_3_19?asin=B002VA8SWO&qid=1329238706&sr=3-19

      This should not even be allowed to be sold, the quality is so bad:
      http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_4_4?asin=B002UZKRK6&qid=1329238823&sr=4-4

      That's all, I just think they are cheating the customer.
      -mike

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 14, 2012 at 9:12 AM

    Well it's nice to know your happy with the finished product Reverend.

    For me the moment I knew they'd chosen the wrong reader was when I heard him do the voice for Stu Redman.

    Say what you will about the Garris version of the Stand, at least Gary Senise gave the character his dignity and didn't make him sound like a nerd pretending to be a good ol' boy.

    ChrisC

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  5. David SquyresFebruary 14, 2012 at 1:13 PM

    I liked the Garris version of The Stand. It's Bryant who doesn't ! I think the Stand was a great mini-series. Perhaps the best of King on TV.

    As for the reader -- I can live with it. Thing is, he already did the abridged edition years ago, so I don't know why they went that rout again. However, I have learned to enjoy his approach. The words create the visiual for me, not the reader. The readers job is really to get out of the way.

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 14, 2012 at 3:16 PM

    I'm sure a group reading would have been preferred by everyone right?

    The audio of Golden Compass books were great,
    I think there were only a handful of actors and the narrator, that would have been awesome for the Stand or It.

    I won't be getting this for awhile, so it's hard for me to judge just based on samples but right now I am listening to Dan Simmons' Summer of Night and the narrator of that one is pretty bland, reading the story like a dictionary.

    I guess that just shows you what an art reading the stories are!
    -mike

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  7. AnonymousFebruary 14, 2012 at 9:07 PM

    Just be grateful your nowhere near an early audio version of It I once heard if you haven't yet, Anonymous.

    If you haven't heard it yet, I advise you to stay as far away from it as possible, the guy reading is another nerd voice, although I guess i should just be grateful he was nowhere near the level Eddie Deezen, although he was in the neighborhood.

    He also tended to treat the action as if it was a children's storybook, reminding of narrator's of certain books on tape a listened to as a six year old. That kind of combo just doesn't mix for a story like It.

    I haven't heard the Steven Webber version of It yet. Does anyone know if it's any good?

    ChrisC

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  8. Bryant BurnetteFebruary 15, 2012 at 10:57 PM

    I've heard great things about Webber's version of "It," but I haven't bought it yet.

    I like what David said above about it being the narrator's job to get out of the way of the story. I tend to agree with him on that point. That's a HUGE part of the reason why I dislike what Craig Wasson has done in the King audios he has performed. All that crap with the character voices he does ... just awful.

    For the record, by the way: I do, indeed, hate Mick Garris's version of "The Stand." It's not only bad in some places, but embarrassingly bad. Trash Can Man, for example; most of the rest of the bad guys are pretty bad, too.

    However, I've got NOTHING bad to say about Gary Sinise in that movie. He's really, really good. That was an excellent summer for him, too, because his next role was "Forrest Gump," in which he was similarly awesome.

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  9. Sharman PrinceFebruary 20, 2012 at 3:06 PM

    "The Stand" audiobook doesn't appear to have been released in the UK then?

    And how many different audiobook versions are there of Stephen King's books? The list on King's website only has one entry for each listed story.

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    1. AnonymousFebruary 21, 2012 at 9:03 AM

      Yes, I agree it would be nice to have a comprehensive list of all audio books.
      There was a website about 6 years ago that had a good list but I no longer can find it.

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  10. ConstantReaderMarch 7, 2012 at 12:19 PM

    Yeah once again the UK loses out and I have bbeen waiting for this for ever!

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