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UR (edició 2010)

de Stephen King, Holter Graham (Reader)

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FIRST TIME ON AUDIO... An Unabridged Novella Unavailable In Any Collection! Tapping into our primal fears of modern technology that made Cell a #1 bestseller, Stephen King sets his sights on the latest high-tech gadget in UR, in which a mysterious e-book reader opens a disturbing window into other worlds. Reeling from a painful break-up, English instructor and avid book lover Wesley Smith is haunted by his ex-girlfriend's parting shot: "Why can't you just read off the computer like everyone else?" He buys an e-book reader out of spite, but soon finds he can use the device to glimpse realities he had never before imagined, discovering literary riches beyond his wildest dreams...and all-too-human tragedies that surpass his most terrible nightmares. From vintage cars (Christine and From a Buick 8) to household appliances (Maximum Overdrive) to exercise equipment (Stationary Bike), Stephen King has mesmerized us with tales of apparently ordinary machines that take on lives of their own. UR gives this classic theme an up-to-the-minute spin, resulting in a horror masterpiece for our time and for the ages.… (més)

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Membre:	sxh36
Títol:	UR
Autors:	Stephen King
Altres autors:	Holter Graham (Reader)
Informació:	Simon & Schuster (2010), Edition: Kindle
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Etiquetes:	horror fiction, Neil's Kindle

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Wonderful. Classic King. (

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CasSprout | Dec 18, 2022 |

Nel complesso è un buon racconto, ai fan del Re farà piacere sentire parlare di Torre Nera e Uomini bassi in soprabito giallo. Ma mettiamoci in testa una cosa, il corso della storia non può essere cambiato. "Tutte le cose servono il Vettore". :) (

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L3landG4unt | Oct 11, 2022 |

Ur reminds me of a Dad saying to a son, "All of all the opportunities you had in life and that's what you chose to do?" Well, at least he won the girl in the end, right? (

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nab6215 | Jan 18, 2022 |

In UR, Wesley Smith decides to buy a Kindle after breaking up with his girlfriend - or rather, her walking out of his life. He purchases a couple of titles before exploring the Experimental option on the Main Menu. The usual stuff appears, but it's the UR Functions that catch his attention. Soon after, Wesley discovers several novels from writers like Hemingway that were never published and some that came to being after his death. Soon, realization sets in - this e-reader taps into alternate realities, providing its owner with archive newspapers from other URs and ultimately, future newspaper editions of the Wesley's UR.

The story's a great read, using a popular science fiction device with a hint of stories like The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper and stories like it - which is the one about the reader gets future obituaries only to die of a heart attack when he receives his? It's clear, though, that Stephen King has a some beef against technology. Which is cool, considering a man who keeps writing about all the messed up ways things can kill us. (

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ennuiprayer | Jan 14, 2022 |

Nice, quick novella that sits very nicely as a companion piece to many other King books. Seemed almost like a bite-size version of 11/22/63. I really enjoyed this one quite a bit.

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Nom de l'autor	Càrrec	Tipus d'autor	Obra?	Estat
Stephen King	—	autor primari	totes les edicions	calculat
Graham, Holter	Narrador	autor secundari	algunes edicions	confirmat

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Moore College, Moore, Kentucky, USA

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When Wesley Smith's colleagues asked him - some with an eyebrow hoicked satirically - what he was doing with that gadget (they all called it a gadget), he told them he was experimenting with new technology, but that was not true. He bought the gadget, which was called a Kindle, out of spite.

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Like all instructors of English, he thought he had a novel in him somewhere and would write it someday.

...the novel in him might remain in him (like a wisdom tooth that never comes up, at least avoiding the possibility of rot, infection, and an expensive--not to mention painful--dental process), but he loved books. Books were his achilles heel.

Of course it was hard to be a hundred per cent sure, but it appeared that he had stumbled on 10.4 million alternate realities and he was an unpublished loser in all of them.

"The Tower trembles; the worlds shudder in their courses. The rose feels a chill, as of winter."

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FIRST TIME ON AUDIO... An Unabridged Novella Unavailable In Any Collection! Tapping into our primal fears of modern technology that made Cell a #1 bestseller, Stephen King sets his sights on the latest high-tech gadget in UR, in which a mysterious e-book reader opens a disturbing window into other worlds. Reeling from a painful break-up, English instructor and avid book lover Wesley Smith is haunted by his ex-girlfriend's parting shot: "Why can't you just read off the computer like everyone else?" He buys an e-book reader out of spite, but soon finds he can use the device to glimpse realities he had never before imagined, discovering literary riches beyond his wildest dreams...and all-too-human tragedies that surpass his most terrible nightmares. From vintage cars (Christine and From a Buick 8) to household appliances (Maximum Overdrive) to exercise equipment (Stationary Bike), Stephen King has mesmerized us with tales of apparently ordinary machines that take on lives of their own. UR gives this classic theme an up-to-the-minute spin, resulting in a horror masterpiece for our time and for the ages.

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