Everything's Eventual

5 Dark Tales (Unabridged Selections)

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Judith Ivey, Oliver Platt

Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins

Publisher's summary

Five unabridged dark tales from Stephen King:

Everything's Eventual features Dinky Earnshaw - a 19-year-old delivery boy - who gets hired by a mysterious stranger for a unique and totally "eventual" (awesome) job. Read by Justin Long.

Autopsy Room Four. The last thing Howard Cottrell remembers is entering the woods to find his golf ball. He wakes up as he is being rolled into an autopsy room. Read by Oliver Platt.

The Little Sisters of Eluria. Roland is a gunslinger in a deserted town when he gets ambushed. Read by Boyd Gaines.

Luckey Quarter. Darlene is a single mom struggling to raise two kids on her income as a chambermaid in Reno. When Room 322 leaves her a quarter for a tip, Darlene lets that quarter take her for a ride. Read by Judith Ivey.

The Road Virus Heads North tracks an author who buys a creepy painting at a yard sale, which was painted by a metal-head neighbor just before he committed suicide. Read by Jay O. Sanders.

Intense, eerie, and instantly compelling, these five stories announce the stunningly fertile imagination of perhaps the greatest storyteller of our time.

These unabridged selections also appear in the print edition of Everything's Eventual. More unabridged stories from Everything's Eventual are available in Blood and Smoke, Riding the Bullet, "LT's Theory of Pets", and "The Man in the Black Suit".

©2002 Stephen King, All Rights Reserved (P)2002 Simon & Schuster Inc., All Rights Reserved, AUDIOWORKS Is an Imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio Division, Simon & Schuster Inc.

Critic reviews

"Each of these stories draws the reader into King's slightly off-center world...developing characters and atmosphere more fully in the span of 50 pages than many authors can in a full novel." (Amazon.com)
"The author is not only immensely popular but immensely talented, a modern-day counterpart to Twain, Hawthorne, Dickens...No one does it better." (Publishers Weekly)

Creepy

The best of the bunch is "Autopsy Room Four," which is so creepy you'll never watch CSI again without thinking about this. Oliver Platt does a great job in reading this. The other stories are OK, but not as memorable as this one.

Careful, this one is abridged

I bought this one before I realized it was abridged... It only includes a small (Unabridged) subset of all of the stories actually in this book, so if you want the WHOLE book, keep looking, it's in the store.. And it, my friend, is worth every penny!

Stephen king is my hero

Thank you stephen king, you continue to enrich my life and shape the art I create.

3 Awesome Stories

3 Excellent Stories. Everything's Eventual, Autopsy Room 4 and The Little Sisters of Auloria (I don't know if I spelled that correctly). The other two are good, but not King's best. The Little Siter's is a must read for Dark Tower fans, which I am. The only complant I have is that there were only 5 stories, where the book has 14. I especially think they should have done The Man in the Black Suit. It is definately worth listening to for the 3 stories mentioned.

great listen

I love listening to audio books, love them even more when an actor that I recognize is the reader. I also enjoy when Mr King narrates. great stories

excellent for a long drive

Would you listen to Everything's Eventual again? Why?

yes

What other book might you compare Everything's Eventual to and why?

if you love stephen king you will love this

What aspect of Judith Ivey and Oliver Platt ’s performance would you have changed?

nothing

Any additional comments?

the recording had a few small glitches

it's King, what else can be said!!

If you like the Dark Tower series then here is one more story from Roland, as well as the story of another character in endworld....Dinky!! definitely worth the listen!!!

Good but not great

Some of the stories were good but as a whole not his best work

This isn't the entire book

The story that the entire cover art of the book is not included. I'm super disappointed.

hard to follow

the first story is hard to follow, I have not been able to listen to the rest of the book because the first story jumped around too much. A big disappointment, the last stephen king book was great. So far this is below average.