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UR |  | Author: Stephen King
Creator: Holter Graham
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Category: Book
List Price: $14.99
Buy New: $7.79
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Seller: BooKnackrh
Rating:  260 reviews
Sales Rank: 38,686
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7 x 5.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 1442303093
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781442303096
ASIN: 1442303093
Publication Date: February 16, 2010
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Amazon.com Review
Since his first novel was published in 1974, Stephen King has stretched the boundaries of the storyteller as a writer who constantly redefines his readers' experience by working in various genres and formats . Whether in an epic horror novel, like THE STAND, a serial-novel like THE GREEN MILE, or a novella like SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, King is able to deliver a reading experience like no one else can. As quickly as a spider spins its web, King reminds us why he's the master of the novella - a format which, up until now that is, one might have thought is fast disappearing.
Product Description
FIRST TIME ON AUDIO... An Unabridged Novella Unavailable In Any Collection! Tapping into our primal fears of modern technology that made Cell a #1 bestseller, Stephen King sets his sights on the latest high-tech gadget in UR, in which a mysterious e-book reader opens a disturbing window into other worlds. Reeling from a painful break-up, English instructor and avid book lover Wesley Smith is haunted by his ex-girlfriend's parting shot: "Why can't you just read off the computer like everyone else?" He buys an e-book reader out of spite, but soon finds he can use the device to glimpse realities he had never before imagined, discovering literary riches beyond his wildest dreams...and all-too-human tragedies that surpass his most terrible nightmares. From vintage cars (Christine and From a Buick 8) to household appliances (Maximum Overdrive) to exercise equipment (Stationary Bike), Stephen King has mesmerized us with tales of apparently ordinary machines that take on lives of their own. UR gives this classic theme an up-to-the-minute spin, resulting in a horror masterpiece for our time and for the ages.
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 Great Story! And I'm not even a fan! February 13, 2009
An Ikearat's Brain (Texas, Gulf Coast)
63 out of 65 found this review helpful
I usually don't even think of Stephen King when I go looking for something to read on my Kindle. That changed today. I'm sure you all remember the condition you were in when you walked out into the "real world" after seeing Star Wars for the first time... snapped-back from a total imersion, allmost dizzy from the exposure to thoughts and possibilities at the edge of your imagination! I have seen a few of the movies made from Mr. King's books and while intertaining, I never put too much thought to the stories involved. Perhaps I should -read- some of those stories. Another reviewer said this story, "UR" should be included with new Kindles. I say it should by required reading for anyone who reads from a portable device!
Well done Mr. King, I'm your newest fan!
And yes, I did press the "Next Page" key, both at the end of the story AND on the Experimental page :)
(review writen on a Kindle!)
A Classic February 18, 2009
Bobbi (New Orleans)
42 out of 45 found this review helpful
A classic Stephen King tale, you start out walking in someone's ordinary, everyday shoes and before you know it you're tap dancing out there where the oxygen is thin.
When I was a kid reading comic books, I wanted to buy a box they advertised in the back pages, a box where you put in a dime at one end and take out a quarter at the opposite end. That is just what this Stephen King story does. It begins with an ordinary man doing an ordinary thing and then he misses the importance of the small clue that he has gone beyond normal until he is waaaay beyond normal. We've all done that, right? Sometimes we get lucky and sometimes we get out by the skin of our teeth. In King's stories, you're never sure which it will be.
I really wish this had been a full length book, rather than a novella. The end left me wanting more.
Great on the iPhone Kindle Reader March 4, 2009
Hunter Brumfield
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I guess this is as good a place to say HOORAY for the move by Amazon and Apple to make all the Kindle books also available on the iPhone.
I just came back from a hospital visit where I was all set to start Steve's (King) "UR" novella, when I discovered that the juice had just run out on my Kindle. So I played a game instead on my always topped-up iPhone.
Back at home my mail informed me that Steve (Jobs) had opened up the iPhone through a brand new app to permit reading of all the 240,000-plus Kindle books. Three minutes later I had "Ur" on the screen of my mobile phone.
Now how incredibly cool is THAT!!?
I will append a comment on "UR" itself later, but consider it totally apropos that this tale has something to do with the Kindle starting from the very first page.
Thanks to both Amazon and Apple (as well as to both Steves and Jeff Bezos) for the perfect union of technologies and talents that made this modern-day Gutenberg feat possible!
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"UR" -- which I surmise is slightly odd shorthand for "universe" -- is a delightful little gem that is King's welcome to E-books, with his own patented way of turning an object into a source of fantasy or terror. It's also his take on the parallel worlds idea that advances that there is an infinite number of universes. One version is that every action splits off THIS universe into the next one.
To those who complained "UR" was too short, too Kindle-promotional, or too esoteric, consider this possibility:
You invested/wasted $2.99 on about 4 hours of reading time. You did NOT invest/waste $5 on a movie at the theater. You did NOT get in your car. And therefore you were NOT killed in a fiery crash with a drunk. You are now in a different Ur and have 20 or 50 more years to invest/waste.
THAT was the message from this first E-book on a fictional E-book. Naturally, it came from Stephen King. Who else?
Incidentally, I found on the Net that "ur" is of German origin, and refers to "original" or "very, very old", and is the root for the German term for the Big Bang -- the start of the physical universe, and thus, one might say, the "Mother of all Urs."
Awesome capture of wayward King fans February 21, 2009
Christina Kraft (GA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I havent read and enjoyed a King thriller in a while but this story is so fresh and real that I couldnt put it down. King writes like he has finally returned from that scary universe that has kept him from engaging younger readers. Welcome back, Mr King...please surrender your passport and stay awhile.
Not UR Typical King Fan, But Loved IT February 14, 2009
Elly Sparks (Green Bay, WI)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I've tried many King books but found them too long and too wordy to hold my attention.
However, I loved Duma Key (little too long) and a short story he wrote for a magazine (Esquire? Vanity Fair? I forget the magazine, but the story was about a rest stop in the middle of the night).
UR was an inexpensive, fast paced, short read that I truly enjoyed. It was priced right @ 2.99.
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