Bag of Bones » (Unabridged, 20 CDs, 22 hours)

Few authors have tapped into our secret fears as adeptly as Stephen King, Master of the Macabre and one of the most widely read novelists writing today. With his trademark blend of fantasy, horror, and psychological suspense, this prolific and immensely popular contemporary writer continues to remind us that evil is still a potent force in the world.

Stephen King's new novel, Bag of Bones, is one of his most ambitious books ever. It's a sprawling story about a bestselling author who, four years after his wife's tragic death, is still battling ghosts -- some imagined and others all too real. Good and evil preside over the tale in both earthly and supernatural form, and it's at once terrifying and unusually melancholy. King is obviously proud of the work: he insisted that the audiobook be available only in unabridged form, and to further maintain the book's integrity he does the reading himself.

National Review - James Bowman

. . .[T]he quality of [King's] writing is considerably less than tremendous. . . .Even at the level of basic metaphor King almost invariably disappoints. . . .Nor is there must to admire in the story of the blocked writer. . . .[his] prose is not close enough to the standard we ought to expect of literary artifacts that aspire to be taken seriously.