Details:
- author: Stephen King
- full title: Later
- narrator: Seth Numrich
- genre: mystery, horror
- topics: #paranormal #ghosts
- publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- publish date: 02.03.2021
- timing: 6:32:00
My Rating of the Audiobook:
- content: 💙💙💙💙
- narration: 💙💙💙💙💙
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Excerpt from the Book:
I don't want to start with an apology – there's probably even a rule against it, like never ending a sentence with a preposition – but after reading over the thirty pages I've written so far, I feel like I have to. It's about a certain word I keep using. I learned a lot of four-letter words from my mother and used them from an early age (as you will find out), but this is one with five letters. The word is later, as in »Later on« and »Later I found out« and »It was only later that I realized.« I know it's repetitive, but I had no choice, because my story starts when I still believed in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy (although even at six I had my doubts). I'm twenty-two now, which makes me later, right? I suppose when I'm in my forties-always assuming I make it that ar-I'll look back on what I thought I understood at twenty-two and realize there was a lot I didn't get at all There's always a later, I know that now. At least until we die. Then I guess it's before that.
My Thoughts:
Jamie is a son of a single mother and doesn’t know his father. As it soon turns out, he’s not an ordinary kid. He has some paranormal abilities. Actually, he can see dead people. In its essence, this is a horror story, as Jamie often emphasizes. It is. It is a horror story on more levels, not just concerning dead people. It’s a horror story for Jamie and what he had to go through at a young age.
Later is a blend of multiple genres: mystery, horror, thriller, and coming-of-age. The book itself is interesting and gripping enough that you want to know more and more and more. Until you finish the book. Later was a quick and smooth listen, and Seth Numrich’s narration was great. His voice suits Jamie.
About the Author:
Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother.Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men's magazines. Many were gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies.
In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching English at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels.
