LT's Theory of Pets (Audio Cassette)

Despite this audio recording being available several years before a printed version of the story, I first came across "LT's Theory of Pets in its' written form, when it appeared in King's most recent short story collection, "Everything's Eventual", earlier in 2002. I've previously called it "entertaining", but not the best, and that I had no intention of buying the audio version of it, as I didn't think it was worth any further outlay. This is doubly true because it's read by Stephen King himself, and my previous experiences of his reading have been none too favourable, either. He has a droning, almost monotonous ...

I love audiobooks. I like curling up in my bedroom and listening to them, pretending I'm still young enough for a bedtime story. I like listening to them on long car journeys, after the point when loud music stops seeming to make the miles yet to travel pass more quickly. However, I don't love Stephen King, or the things he writes, or the stories he tells. So, when the little package plopped through the door having fought its way through the Christmas post so valiantly, I opened it feeling fairly intrigued. I'd never heard the voice of Stephen King, that man I so love to despise, and now I have. The children had been taken off by kind parents so that I ...

Stephen King writes horror books, right? Well, yes, but on this occasion, no, because "LT's Theory of Pets" is more humorous than horrific and more suspenseful than spooky. It's an audiobook, read by the master himself in front of a live audience at the Royal Festival Hall in London and, even if you hate audiobooks you're going to have to get past that if you want to explore LT's theories, since it has not been published in book form. The single cassette has a playing time of approximately one hour and here comes my standard gripe. However talented a writer King might be, as a reader he usually just doesn't cut the mustard. (In a ...