Thinner

De: Stephen King

Narrado por: Joe Mantegna

This “superbly crafted…extraordinary” (Booklist) #1 New York Times bestseller from Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, “pulsates with evil…[and] will have you on the edge of your seat” (Publishers Weekly).

Attorney Billy Halleck seriously enjoys living his life of upper-class excess. He’s got it all—an expensive home in Connecticut, a loving family…and fifty extra pounds that his doctor repeatedly warns will be the death of him. Then, in a moment of carelessness, Halleck commits vehicular manslaughter when he strikes a jaywalking old woman crossing the street. But Halleck has some powerful local connections and gets off with a slap on the wrist…much to the fury of the woman’s mysterious and ancient father, who exacts revenge with a single word: “Thinner.”

Now a terrified Halleck finds the weight once so difficult to shed dropping effortlessly—and rapidly—by the week. Soon there will be nothing left of Billy Halleck…unless he can somehow locate the source of his living nightmare and reverse what’s happened to him before he utterly wastes away…

Great!

Narrator was mostly awesome, really great male voices. But the female voices did get kind of ridiculous sometimes. Still great though!

Sickness can be Evil. In this case it was so.

This was an interesting read. Just what would be expected but then a wicked twist. And an ending that makes you think.

Nail bitter.

I listen fast enough! Excellent narration, though funny to hear someone with a New York accent try to do a Maine one!

Great!

Great story and great narration! Horrific ending but good...feels more like a King novel than a Bachman one but good nonetheless

Unnecessary EXCESSIVE music

I enjoyed this book a lot. I love the Bachman of King’s works, because of the lack of need for a warm & fuzzy, happy ending every time. However, this reading has, what I assume to be “suspense building”, music at every chapter/plot transition that is, not only completely unnecessary, but at times would be louder than the reading of the text, to the point that you could not hear what the narrator was saying. Great story, silly editing choice.