Roadwork
Written by Stephen King
Narrated by G. Valmont Thomas
4/5
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About this audiobook
“I listened to myself. But people talk a different language inside."
It’s all coming to an end for Barton Dawes. The city’s Highway 784 extension is in the process of being constructed right across town and inexorably through every aspect of Bart’s existence—whether it’s about to barrel over the laundry plant where he makes a living, or soon to smash through the very home where he makes a life. But as a result, something’s been happening inside Bart’s head that a heartless local bureaucracy isn’t prepared for—a complete and irrevocable burnout of the mental circuit breaker that keeps a mild-mannered person from turning to violent means. As the wheels of progress and a demolition crew continue unabated throughout Bart’s neighborhood, he’s not about to give everything up without a fight. As a matter of fact, he’s ready and waiting to ignite an explosive confrontation with the legislative forces gathered against him....
Stephen King
Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes the short story collection You Like It Darker, Holly, Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of the first King books I ever read, just as good now as it was over 30 years ago.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Not as dark as I'd expected. I guess 2020 has jaded me a bit.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I think ‘Roadwork’ is better appreciated by older readers. I have 75 years of life experience. ‘Roadwork’ crossed all the ‘Ts’ and dotted all the ‘Is’.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bart is jacked up, read/ listen along. It’s quite the story!!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Can’t writers be creative with character names? Georgie. Other names from past books. Gets old after and couldn’t get passed the first chapter.
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