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Stephen King- Still Near the Top of His Game, February 12, 2009
This review is from: UR (Kindle Edition)
Stephen King has graced us kindle owners with a bit of surprise. Coming out a few weeks early, UR downloaded to my Kindle this morning and 90 minutes later I had devoured its 1737 locations.
UR settles into a space somewhere between a short story and a novella. The premise is simple but fascinating. After a mild mannered college professor orders a Kindle, he is met with a pink Kindle that downloads books not only from Amazon.com, but from Urs. Each of the more than 10 million Urs seem to represent a different reality where authors have written different books. Ever wanted to read the unpublished Hemingway book, or six Poe novels? King explores the possibilities and in the process makes every literary mind jealous.
Of course, being King, things start to go wrong and become disturbing when the professor finds out that the pink Kindle can also download newspapers from different Urs. I'll let you discover the rest on your own.
Ur moves quick and features some cameo appearances by past King characters that will leave the most cynical CR smiling. It falls short of five stars simply because it is measured against other great King novellas and novels, but UR is a great diversion for any King fan.
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154 of 159 people found the following review helpful:
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Great Story! And I'm not even a fan!, February 13, 2009
This review is from: UR (Kindle Edition)
I usually don't even think of Stephen King when I go looking for something to read on my Kindle. That changed today. I'm sure you all remember the condition you were in when you walked out into the "real world" after seeing Star Wars for the first time... snapped-back from a total imersion, allmost dizzy from the exposure to thoughts and possibilities at the edge of your imagination! I have seen a few of the movies made from Mr. King's books and while intertaining, I never put too much thought to the stories involved. Perhaps I should -read- some of those stories. Another reviewer said this story, "UR" should be included with new Kindles. I say it should by required reading for anyone who reads from a portable device!
Well done Mr. King, I'm your newest fan!
And yes, I did press the "Next Page" key, both at the end of the story AND on the Experimental page :)
(review writen on a Kindle!)
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103 of 107 people found the following review helpful:
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A Classic, February 17, 2009
This review is from: UR (Kindle Edition)
A classic Stephen King tale, you start out walking in someone's ordinary, everyday shoes and before you know it you're tap dancing out there where the oxygen is thin.
When I was a kid reading comic books, I wanted to buy a box they advertised in the back pages, a box where you put in a dime at one end and take out a quarter at the opposite end. That is just what this Stephen King story does. It begins with an ordinary man doing an ordinary thing and then he misses the importance of the small clue that he has gone beyond normal until he is waaaay beyond normal. We've all done that, right? Sometimes we get lucky and sometimes we get out by the skin of our teeth. In King's stories, you're never sure which it will be.
I really wish this had been a full length book, rather than a novella. The end left me wanting more.
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