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Narrators voice is way too low pitched

Revisado: 11-28-22

I have the print version of these books and though I’d try out the audio edition since I haven’t revisited them in several years. I only managed to listen for less than 2 minutes before giving up. The narrators voice is mixed so low it’s like the words are being spoken by an edm mix at a dance club. Instant migraine. If the audible app had EQ settings to adjust the mix on a book this might be an enjoyable read, but as it stands it’s impossible to listen to.

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Starts out a bit weak but ended strong

Revisado: 04-18-21

It took me two attempts before I got into this book, although in the end I enjoyed it quite a bit. The first couple of hours are a bit plodding, but if you can get past them the book hits it’s stride and becomes quite enjoyable.

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Fun and well narrated but oddly paced

Revisado: 12-18-20

It’s a good book overall and the narrator does a great job of bringing the story to life, but the pacing is a bit odd with an abrupt ending that feels more incomplete than a simple cliffhanger.

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A Middling Performance and Lackluster Story

Revisado: 06-12-12

For die-hard Stephen King fans, or baby boomers looking to immerse themselves in a ham-fisted but loving literary ode to the early 60's, 11-22-63 is sure to meet, though likely not exceed, your expectations. For readers who generally eschew King's works but find themselves, as I was, intrigued by the premise of the story, you would be better served skipping this title and instead imagining how great of a story it could have been.

Craig Wassons narration is adequate but unspectacular. Major characters are identifiable by voice, and the accents he gives to the characters adequately convey the differing manners of speech characteristic to both the physical and temporal locations of the various settings of the book. Unfortunately, curious choices in pacing and inflection during much of the dialogue serve to highlight forced and unnatural style of King's dialogue. Likewise, the often over-the-top delivery of lines spoken by the main character highlight Kings propensity for hamfisted narration.

The story itself is an interesting idea, poorly paced, and taken in all the wrong directions. Time and again we see the potential for interesting facets of the story come and go without development, as though King himself wanted to write a truly interesting story but then reigned himself in at the last moment and decided to stick to his all-to-familiar horror-esque tropes. The result is a muddled and untranscendant mishmash of genres that fails to achieve anything but disappointment.

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