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    Sleeping Beauties: A Novel
    Sleeping Beauties: A Novel
    Sleeping Beauties: A Novel
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    Sleeping Beauties: A Novel

    Written by Stephen King and Owen King

    Narrated by Marin Ireland

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    In this spectacular New York Times bestselling father/son collaboration that “barrels along like a freight train” (Publishers Weekly), Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?

    In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep: they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent. And while they sleep they go to another place, a better place, where harmony prevails and conflict is rare. One woman, the mysterious “Eve Black,” is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is Eve a medical anomaly to be studied? Or is she a demon who must be slain?

    Abandoned, left to their increasingly primal urges, the men divide into warring factions, some wanted to kill Eve, some to save her. Others exploit the chaos to wreak their own vengeance on new enemies. All turn to violence in a suddenly all-male world. Set in a small Appalachian town whose primary employer is a woman’s prison, Sleeping Beauties is a wildly provocative, gloriously dramatic father-son collaboration that feels particularly urgent and relevant today.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateSep 26, 2017
    ISBN9781508238133
    Author

    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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    • 5/5
      Wow Robert. Way to prove the novel’s point. Go back to whatever trailer park you crawled out of.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      A truly compelling story awaits the reader/listener! The characters are relatable, and the narrator brought them all to life. Don't be daunted by the length, it's worth it!

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Fantastic book with a really interesting and unique topic. There were many characters that were very likeable and a rich world(s) surrounding them. As a woman, I feel that this book is important and appreciate the view that it offered. Also, as an Appalachian, I love that it was set here. It's just a detail I crave to see in more books for some reason. I wouldn't mind seeing more combined tales from these two.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Not bad. At first I had a hard time getting into it. I heard it on Audio as I drove to and from work . I did get into it as time went by and I was struck in traffic lol anyhow not a bad collaboration between father and son. :) Good book. :)

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Extremely well written novel, another classic from Stephen King again

      2 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Good book really enjoyed it. I recommend it to anybody that likes Stephen King books

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      The fact that it was father and son who wrote it, Stephen King is a great author and so is his son Owen, great team work guys

      Jane Anderson ( from Scotland)

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Good story. Too bad he is a liberal dick head.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Very good book with a good ending. It’s interesting to get a book written by the father and son duo.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Excellent voice artist! She makes you feel as if you are actually watching a movie rather than listening to a book.

      The storyline is relatable to the mass population. There is never a dull moment.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      love this book!!! such detail and character development is always why I love Stephen king and Owen just added to the experience.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      What a fantastic enjoyable book , love love love it.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      The two Kings captured one of the oldest stories time has to offer - the battle in nature of male versus female and the imagining of what decisions we make under the most extreme of duress. As far as 'end of civilization tales' it holds up fairly well.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      Heavy handed with the male bashing, but readable. Just ok.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Great story. Great pacing. My favorite of Kings recent books. Owen helps his dad out of some tropes that he falls into.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      There were a lot of characters in this novel. In the front of the book was a list of them. The list was not in alphabetical order. It would have been great if it was. It wasn't grouped in order of when the character appeared. That may have been ok. It was grouped by family or occupation, I guess. I took notes of character names as I normally do.2,647 members; 3.57 average rating; 4/23/2023
    • 2/5
      it was ok, but too long. didn't finish.
    • 1/5
      Exclusionary, and one dimensional. Erases all identities and reduces women to vaginas and xx chromosomes. Reductive and harmful. They only Stephen King book that I couldn't finish. 0/10 Trash!
    • 5/5
      Watch the males spiral. Robert is so in his feelings, he's spamming the same review to drive down the rating. Women are the emotional ones? Lmfao. That being said, this book is fantastic. Considering this was written by two men, the female perspective is very well done. Easy to write the perspective of the opposite gender, incredibly challenging to get right. The Kings get it right. This book doesn't miss.
    • 5/5
      King writing at its best!! I couldn’t stop listening! I love how he assembles the ensemble stories and the coming together of the ensembles is always a thrill!
    • 5/5
      Fantastically written. The King men know how to create a whole different world with words!
    • 2/5
      If you’re ready to be whacked over the head with a blatant “me too” shovel, then get ready for a fun ride! If you’re looking for classic SK then perhaps look to the other offerings on here. Social commentary within the SK universes is not out of the norm, but to blatantly alienate the 50% of your potential audience to send a direct message in current times is not needed when we just want to be entertained
    • 2/5
      I’m a woman, and the level of man bashing was egregious. I have read SK for 40+ years and the story telling skills are great. I have been a big fan. But good gracious, “every single man is responsible for all evils in the world” trope was beat to a bloody pulp. Even the “good” men are limping along just trying to overcome their awful maleness and really aren’t that great. Women, of course, are inherently good and only do bad things because of those terrible men in their lives. It almost seemed a parody until the constant “man bad, woman good” thing wore thin. I did a LOT of eye rolling.
    • 5/5
      I love this book!! The story was perfection it kept me captivated!
    • 5/5
      i haven't read nothing but it should be very interesting book
    • 4/5
      I listened to the audio version with a lot of ‘life’ interruptions. So there was much I missed with the fragmented natured of my attention. I may have enjoyed it more had I devoted more continuity of time.
    • 1/5
      bad, not good, crappy writing, Stephen King has fallen off
    • 1/5
      Worst Stephen King novel I’ve ever read. Had to force myself to finish over a few months. I’m the biggest SK fan but this one was just painful to finish and tedious.
    • 3/5
      I like Steven king. But it is so hard for me to read or listen To his stories, especially listen. I like a good story without unnecessary ugliness and profanity. Yes, some of his characters are unlike able people who speak in offensive and ugly language, but I still would rather not hear repeated profanity or descriptions by angry characters of a scatalogical nature. Characterizations of undesirable traits can be made without gagging the reader. Let anger be expressed without disgusting language and descriptions. Really turns me off. Good stories are great but ruined by such trashy talk. And men characters sounding just like the Southern drawl of the whiny complaining women really got repetitive and tiring. Don’t go for stereotypes. So many characters were interchangeable. I want to read him but he always resorts to junior high trashy talking unlikeable characters. Who wants to spend hours listening to such negative, whiny people. Try to have your novels filled with more noble, moral and likeable people and, please, have 2narrators for the 2 genders and drop the irritating whiny accents. A little pepper (accents) is enough seasoning, not a whole can. Please, give us an escape from the real world. We are exposed too much to negative, angry, obnoxious, selfish, manipulating , untrustworthy individuals. Give us a breath of fresh air. Let’s have more characters who take the more difficult but right path, even if it is inconvenient, uncomfortable or even dangerous. Characters who won’t always take the self-serving, easy path. Let’s have some human, flawed characters who are still heroes. Trustworthy, honorable, humorous individuals who don’t have treacherous hidden self-serving agendas.
    • 5/5
      I quite enjoyed tbis book. The father and do. did a gteat job of workong together. I bought the booj, and had no tume to read kt so this was perfect!