2 Minutes to Midnight

Strange Tales of the Unusual

By: Steve D. Lang

Narrated by: John Pirhalla

Twenty-six short stories that will amaze you.

Controversial technology, rumored to be in use by a global shadow government, to weave worlds of a fantastic future.

Curiosity Rover discovers a locked door in the side of Mount Sharp, on Mars, and three scientists are sent on a mission to discover what lies within the ancient structure. Will they locate the mysterious libraries of a civilization lost, and survive to tell about their discoveries in "The Mars Tetrahedron"?

When Hell is full of souls, and Satan can take being ignored by his adversary in Heaven no longer, he walks off the job in frustration. Cedric, the demon slayer, will have to set aside his differences with the lord of the flies, and get him back to work before the angels find out he's missing and a final war between good and evil begins in "The Day Satan Quit."

Plus much more!

©2015 Steve Lang (P)2016 Steve Lang

First time writer. Hit and miss

Is there anything you would change about this book?

The writer wrote a story a week for a year. Usually writers will leave most of those stories tucked away in a folder to never see the light of day. But Lang put them all out there. I say more power to him. Even though several of these stories were not so good and most needed a little editor TLC, a handful were really fun. You can tell with practice this writer will get better. The stories are short and very diverse and the narrator is actually really good.

Intellectual Storytelling

While this audio book is a lot of fun, it really thrives in its ability to represent something greater than what's happening in the text, or in your headphones in this case. Whatever your interpretation of the text might be, you'll probably be able to derive something from Lang's ability to think about the scope of humanity as a whole through the parables presented in the audiobook.

Whether you pick out themes about the environment, or the general critique of morality, you'll find something deeper if you look for it. That's the beauty of these simple stories, which are more complex in ideology than you might realize.

I'd love to see Lang do something a little bigger though. His ability to condense might help him write novels that can really reach bigger ideas. I would imagine his approach to character development is different in his full-length novels and that the ideas presented in them are less like little sparks and more like flames.

Anyway, great listen. Lots of fun, and totally engaging.

Great listen

Read this book when it came out. It was great to hear the audio version and give life to the characters. Good book to get lost in.

great ride

The stories really jump out at you. You can never tell what's going to be around the next metaphorical turn.

Outstanding

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes, the story line is great and keep you engage to what's going to happen next.