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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TiQuinn" data-source="post: 9771620" data-attributes="member: 4871">Currently listening to the audiobook of You Like It Darker by Stephen King during my daily commute. Most are narrated by Will Patton, whose unique voice is really engaging and fits the tone of King’s writing so well. Of the stories so far, most have been horror adjacent, trending more towards either crime or light sci-fi than outright horror, and the strongest has been the novella Danny Coughlin’s Bad Dream about a man who has a psychic experience where he discovers and reports the location of a dead body, and subsequently becomes the prime suspect of the ensuing investigation because of course, the police don’t believe him. It reads like a classic King story.Others are far weaker, and one of the things that I’m consistently noticing is the narrative anachronisms that I imagine might be due more to King’s age. It can be as simple as encountering young kids named Mary or Willie who act more like a person ripped out of the 1960s or 70s than any kid I’ve ever encountered in the past 30 years. Other times it’s simply very old turns of phrases that I believe King could say but not the character he’s writing. But given these are short stories, it’s easy to move past them.</blockquote>