Mile 81 (Kindle Single)
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Mile 81 is Stand by Me meets Christine —the story of an insatiable car and a heroic kid. At Mile 81 on the Maine turnpike is a boarded up rest stop, a place where high school kids drink and get into the kind of trouble high school kids have always gotten into. It's the place where Pete Simmons goes when his older brother, who's supposed to be looking out for him, heads off to the gravel pit to play "paratroopers over the side." Pete, armed only with the magnifying glass he got for his tenth birthday, finds a discarded bottle of vodka in the boarded up burger shack and drinks enough to pass out.Not much later, a mud-covered station wagon (which is strange because there hadn't been any rain in New England for over a week) veers into the Mile 81 rest area, ignoring the sign that says "closed, no services." The driver's door opens but nobody gets out. Doug Clayton, an insurance man from Bangor, is driving his Prius to a conference in Portland. On the backseat are his briefcase and suitcase and in the passenger bucket is a King James Bible, what Doug calls "the ultimate insurance manual, " but it isn't going to save Doug when he decides to be the Good Samaritan and help the guy in the broken down wagon. He pulls up behind it, puts on his four-ways, and then notices that the wagon has no plates.Ten minutes later, Julianne Vernon, pulling a horse trailer, spots the Prius and the wagon, and pulls over. Julianne finds Doug Clayton's cracked cell phone near the wagon door – and gets too close herself. By the time Pete Simmons wakes up from his vodka nap, there are a half a dozen cars at the Mile 81 rest stop. Two kids – Rachel and Blake Lussier – and one horse named Deedee are the only living left. Unless you maybe count the wagon.
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Man sollte nicht jedem Auto trauen..
Was eigentlich als schöner Tag beginnt endet in einem Horrortrip. Und das für einige! Es gibt eine Stelle an der Mile 81, die ganz verlassen aussieht, an der man am besten vorbei fahren sollte ohne sich groß um das Geschehen zu kümmern. Doch so großzügig und hilfsbereit die Menschen auch sind, so dumm sind ihre Taten manchmal... Diese Kurzgeschichte lehrt uns, dass man wirklich nicht in die Nähe von fremden Autos kommen sollte, Kinder die Wahrheit sagen und Erwachsene einfach dumm sind.
Gut
Kurz, knackig und dafür gut, außerdem schnell zu lesen. Die Story selbst war jetzt nicht völlig überraschend aber hat trotzdem Unterhalten. Es war auch blutig und die beiden Geschwister können ein wirklich leid tun. Dennoch Ende in Ordnung. Pete Simmons nimmt die Sache in die Hand, da die Kinder genau wissen das die Erwachsenen ihnen nicht glauben werden.
In this novella, Pete, an eleven-year-old boy, explores a closed gas station and becomes drunk for the first time in his life. Julianne, a lesbian farmer caring for horses, drives up at the gas station and finds an old car - a car which hasn't been there when Pete arrived minutes ago, with no driver in sight ... This novella displays a strong introduction to the collection Bazaar of Bad Dreamds by combining King's more recent writing style with classic [b:Christine|10629|Christine|Stephen King|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327270815s/10629.jpg|1150571]-like horror. For me, it was a case of being in the right mood to read this story, because any other day, it might have received only two stars or even one due to its hilarious ridiculousness. But, if you don't mind the ending - and it should have become obvious by now that if there is one thing Stephen King cannot write well at all, then that's endings - this is a strong story about some interesting characters. Even though King stole one of his own ideas, I can forgive him for that, because this entertaining story made up for a funny hour of reading.
Description
Mile 81 is Stand by Me meets Christine —the story of an insatiable car and a heroic kid. At Mile 81 on the Maine turnpike is a boarded up rest stop, a place where high school kids drink and get into the kind of trouble high school kids have always gotten into. It's the place where Pete Simmons goes when his older brother, who's supposed to be looking out for him, heads off to the gravel pit to play "paratroopers over the side." Pete, armed only with the magnifying glass he got for his tenth birthday, finds a discarded bottle of vodka in the boarded up burger shack and drinks enough to pass out.Not much later, a mud-covered station wagon (which is strange because there hadn't been any rain in New England for over a week) veers into the Mile 81 rest area, ignoring the sign that says "closed, no services." The driver's door opens but nobody gets out. Doug Clayton, an insurance man from Bangor, is driving his Prius to a conference in Portland. On the backseat are his briefcase and suitcase and in the passenger bucket is a King James Bible, what Doug calls "the ultimate insurance manual, " but it isn't going to save Doug when he decides to be the Good Samaritan and help the guy in the broken down wagon. He pulls up behind it, puts on his four-ways, and then notices that the wagon has no plates.Ten minutes later, Julianne Vernon, pulling a horse trailer, spots the Prius and the wagon, and pulls over. Julianne finds Doug Clayton's cracked cell phone near the wagon door – and gets too close herself. By the time Pete Simmons wakes up from his vodka nap, there are a half a dozen cars at the Mile 81 rest stop. Two kids – Rachel and Blake Lussier – and one horse named Deedee are the only living left. Unless you maybe count the wagon.
Book Information
Posts
Man sollte nicht jedem Auto trauen..
Was eigentlich als schöner Tag beginnt endet in einem Horrortrip. Und das für einige! Es gibt eine Stelle an der Mile 81, die ganz verlassen aussieht, an der man am besten vorbei fahren sollte ohne sich groß um das Geschehen zu kümmern. Doch so großzügig und hilfsbereit die Menschen auch sind, so dumm sind ihre Taten manchmal... Diese Kurzgeschichte lehrt uns, dass man wirklich nicht in die Nähe von fremden Autos kommen sollte, Kinder die Wahrheit sagen und Erwachsene einfach dumm sind.
Gut
Kurz, knackig und dafür gut, außerdem schnell zu lesen. Die Story selbst war jetzt nicht völlig überraschend aber hat trotzdem Unterhalten. Es war auch blutig und die beiden Geschwister können ein wirklich leid tun. Dennoch Ende in Ordnung. Pete Simmons nimmt die Sache in die Hand, da die Kinder genau wissen das die Erwachsenen ihnen nicht glauben werden.
In this novella, Pete, an eleven-year-old boy, explores a closed gas station and becomes drunk for the first time in his life. Julianne, a lesbian farmer caring for horses, drives up at the gas station and finds an old car - a car which hasn't been there when Pete arrived minutes ago, with no driver in sight ... This novella displays a strong introduction to the collection Bazaar of Bad Dreamds by combining King's more recent writing style with classic [b:Christine|10629|Christine|Stephen King|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327270815s/10629.jpg|1150571]-like horror. For me, it was a case of being in the right mood to read this story, because any other day, it might have received only two stars or even one due to its hilarious ridiculousness. But, if you don't mind the ending - and it should have become obvious by now that if there is one thing Stephen King cannot write well at all, then that's endings - this is a strong story about some interesting characters. Even though King stole one of his own ideas, I can forgive him for that, because this entertaining story made up for a funny hour of reading.