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Road Rage: Two Novellas

by Joe Hill, Stephen King, Richard Matheson, Stephen Lang (Narrator)

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Road Rage unites Richard Matheson's classic "Duel" and the contemporary work it inspired--two power-packed short stories by three of the genre's most acclaimed authors. "Duel," an unforgettable tale about a driver menaced by a semi truck, was the source for Stephen Spielberg's acclaimed first film of the same name. "Throttle," by Stephen King and Joe Hill, is a duel of a d...more

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Oct 29, 2011 Becky rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, horror, mystery-and-thrillers, richard-matheson, joe-hill, shortstories-collections, stephen-king, 2011, reviewed, challenge-1010

I read Richard Matheson's story, Duel, (in the collection of the same title) last year and remember being slightly underwhelmed by the whole collection. Not that the stories weren't good - they were - but more that it's just not what I thought they'd be. I had wanted horror, and I got a lot of sci-fi instead. But I digress. The title story was (very) straight-forward suspense, and though (very) dated, it was a good story and I quite enjoyed it.

Let me pause here and add a little side note, which...more I read Richard Matheson's story, Duel, (in the collection of the same title) last year and remember being slightly underwhelmed by the whole collection. Not that the stories weren't good - they were - but more that it's just not what I thought they'd be. I had wanted horror, and I got a lot of sci-fi instead. But I digress. The title story was (very) straight-forward suspense, and though (very) dated, it was a good story and I quite enjoyed it.

Let me pause here and add a little side note, which has actually given me a new appreciation for Duel (the story). I'm currently also ADD-reading Stephen King's Danse Macabre, in which he takes a look at horror as a genre and in general. I'm not very far into DM yet, because I'm kind of having issues being monogamous with my reading at the moment, but I did read an interesting section about some stories being great, lasting, brilliant stories that exist simply for the sake of the reaction one has to reading it, or hearing it, as the case may be.

King uses an example of an urban legend story, the one with the kids going up to Lovers' Lane despite the warning that there's a crazed killer on the loose who prowls among unsuspecting snoggers, the girl begs to go home, the guy finally gives in (like he can't get his action elsewhere, the jerk), and finally they leave, only to find evidence that they were mere moments away from being brutally murdered by the psychopath.

King mentions in DM that this story exists simply for the fear it causes. There's no history, no characterization, no real "story" at all - just the terror and suspense and dread.

Duel was like that. We have two drivers: Aggressor and Victim. We don't know why the A has it out for the V, or what happened to cause A to want to commit vehicular murder, etc. We don't know anything about V except for the barest details that show he's an Innocent Salesman just on his way to a job. Nice guy, pays his taxes, that sort. There's not really any STORY to the story, just a little window of time in which some shit goes down, and we're just there to see it. Suspense just for the sake of being suspenseful.

So, like I said, I have a bit of a new appreciation for the story based on this new light, but still, I'm a girl who likes a bit more meat to her stories, namely characterization. I want to be able to identify with the characters and actually fear for them in situations like the one that our victim was in. And I never really did. Not only because of the lack of characterization, but also because I find it incredibly hard to realistically fear the mind-shatteringly fast 60MPH whirlwind that was the Duel chase. Like I said, dated.

Throttle, though, was much fresher and more up-to-date and fleshed out in just about every way. Instead of just a series of close calls and bumps, we have real, honest-to-goodness death and destruction ensuing, and real reason to fear. We have characters that have back stories and histories, we have motive, we have SPEED and danger and crises and reason to care. There's a STORY in this story, folks! Wooo!

I think it doesn't need to really be said that I preferred Throttle to Duel, but I do think that for what each story is in and of itself, both are very good. Throttle is just more my kind of story.

I enjoyed Stephen Lang's reading of these as well. If you are able to listen to the audiobook, it's a good way to kill about 2.5 hours. Otherwise, Throttle can be found in He Is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson, and Duel, obviously, can be found in Duel: Terror Stories By Richard Matheson.

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Jan 16, 2012 Lou rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: audio-book, thriller, horror, january-2012-reading-list

Matheson immerses us in a case of Road rage in Duel a short story. He really places you in the thick of the tension. We all know what it's like driving on the freeway those big trucks they own the road due to their size. He takes this tool of terror a Truck coupled with an anonymous driver who is rampant on causing fear and terror to our likable protagonist.
The main protagonist is a salesman on business trip it will be a trip three days of motels and restaurant eating. It all picks up on a Thurs...more

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Mar 13, 2009 Chris rated it 4 of 5 stars

This audio-only book is actually two stories. "Duel" by Richard Matheson was written I believe sometime in the early 70's and features a salesman trying to get to San Francisco on business who is accosted by an oil rig driver with an unhealthy grudge. The second story, a modern composition called "Throttle", written by Stephen King and Joe Hill was inspired by Matheson's entry. The King/Hill tale revolves around a group of bikers who run across a similar threat and must battle for their lives on...more

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Jul 18, 2012 Criminal Reads rated it 2 of 5 stars

Lucy -

I checked out this book because of you. You know I am not a fan of graphic novels, but I figured it’s King, so really how bad could it be. And he collaborated with his son on this one so it could really be a great read. I couldn’t get into this at all. It’s touted as thriller, but honestly I couldn’t’ find anything thriller about it. Not even horror, or mystery or scaredy cat. The graphics were ok. I am not a master in book style graphics so i can’t really say too much about them. The stor...more

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Jan 01, 2012 Alice rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012, audio, horror, thriller

This was a decent way to pass a couple of hours on the road.

Road Rage is two novellas: Richard Matheson's "Duel," which inspired a movie of the same name by Steven Spielberg, as well as "Throttle," a short story written by Stephen King and his son, Joe Hill.

Matheson is probably best known by modern readers for I Am Legend, which has spawned several movies, but he also wrote some of the most intriguing and memorable Twilight Zone episodes. "Duel" is about an ordinary salesman taking a back road,...more This was a decent way to pass a couple of hours on the road.

Road Rage is two novellas: Richard Matheson's "Duel," which inspired a movie of the same name by Steven Spielberg, as well as "Throttle," a short story written by Stephen King and his son, Joe Hill.

Matheson is probably best known by modern readers for I Am Legend, which has spawned several movies, but he also wrote some of the most intriguing and memorable Twilight Zone episodes. "Duel" is about an ordinary salesman taking a back road, and randomly encountering a murderous trucker on the route. The truck driver is given a name (Keller) and a description (square hands, square face), but he exists as an embodiment of fear more than anything else. We never learn why he's trying to dominate the road and kill Mann, the perspective character of "Duel." Mann certainly speculates, but he never gets an answer.

"Duel" is not that kind of story, though. The horror and mystery of "Duel" is that it's so random and can happen to anyone. I found myself grateful, while I drove, that there weren't any trucks on the road.

"Throttle," by contrast, keeps the truck driver faceless, but gives him plenty of reason to be upset with the bikers who fill the role of protagonist only in that the story is from their perspective. They're not good people, and they're running away from having done something terrible. And yet, in a testament to King and Hill's writing, the reader does wind up rooting for the bikers to somehow survive being mowed down by a huge, unstoppable truck.

It's clear where the latter story was inspired by the former, but, side-by-side, it's a strange experience. I would recommend this for people who are already familiar with "Duel," either as the short story or the movie. Coming into it fresh creates a certain frame of mind that makes the earlier story pale in comparison to Hill and King's update. I would've very much liked to have savored "Duel," to mull over its themes and subtleties, but listening to them back-to-back took that opportunity, and I think it lost something in translation.

Doubtless this will be a different experience in future listens, but this "reading" of this audio book was not what I anticipated from three such masters of horror and suspense.(less)

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Feb 18, 2011 Anthony rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: short-story-collections

As the press release says, this collection of two "novelettes" (I'm not sure when that became an official publishing term, but I've seen it three times now in the past two months) brings together one of Richard Matheson's classic short stories and a new Stephen King / Joe Hill (father and son, if you didn't know) collaboration. The stories share the title theme, yes, but even more specifically they share an antagonist: a lumbering truck on a lonely stretch of highway.

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Sep 01, 2012 David rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012

Audiobook collection of two novellas, one classic and one current about killers behind large trucks. Both are superbly narrated by Stephen Lang. The first novella is the classic "Duel" by Richard Matheson. The classic Spielberg film is based on this equally good short story. Actually, the main character (called Mann) is a less annoying and more sympathetic character than the film. This is a sheer brilliant hour of narrated terror.

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Feb 25, 2010 Kandice rated it 3 of 5 stars

I can see why these two stories were packaged together even though they were written decades apart. They are both about semi-trucks on seemingly unexplainable rampages. The reader, Stephen Lang, also read Heart-Shaped Box by Hill and was perfect for these stories. His voice is a bit rough, he sounds incredibly "manly" and his words flow flawlessly. He reads with feeling, but not so much that you are forced to see things his way. In case you are wondering, he plays Colonel Quaritch in Avatar. The...more I can see why these two stories were packaged together even though they were written decades apart. They are both about semi-trucks on seemingly unexplainable rampages. The reader, Stephen Lang, also read Heart-Shaped Box by Hill and was perfect for these stories. His voice is a bit rough, he sounds incredibly "manly" and his words flow flawlessly. He reads with feeling, but not so much that you are forced to see things his way. In case you are wondering, he plays Colonel Quaritch in Avatar. The guy with the wicked scar along his pate? See, pretty manly!

The first, Duel, takes place in the late 60's and is about a travelling salesman who encounters a mad trucker on an out of the way road. There's no obvious reason, but the trucker is out to get Mann, the salesman. I'm sure when the book was written, the 60 mph, "fast speed" chases would have been pretty exciting to read, but now, 60 mph just seems...well, slow. I have enjoyed everything of Matheson's I've read, and I did enjoy this one, I just don't feel the years were kind to it's premise. Even as I listened, I expected the second story to be an updated version of Duel. It almost cried out for it. Duel leaves us with no answers, something I'm okay with, but I couldn't help but look forward to what Hill and King would do with their story.

The second installment, Throttle, is indeed a bit of an updated version. This time, instead of a single car driving salesman, those pursued by the mad trucker are a motorcycle gang on the run from a situation gone waaaaaay bad. About as bad, and bloody, as a situation can get. They stop at a truck stop and then are pursued by a semi-truck when they leave. Where Mann, in Duel, seemed an innocent, these bikers are not. We don't know (to begin with) why this is happening, but we can see someone, somewhere, may think they deserve it.

As I listened, it seemed to me that Hill did most of the writing for Throttle, while his dad gave him all the details that made these bikers seem authentic and real. Only someone who actually rides could have gotten all the miscelania correct. In Throttle, we are treated to a conclusion and resolution of sorts, but by the time we get it, the relationship between two of the characters has become what I was most interested in. I almost didn't care why, I wanted more of the emotional consequences.(less)

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Sep 20, 2012 Lex rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: suspense, fiction, audio-books, stephen-king

I enjoyed Richard Matheson's short story, Duel, because of 2 reasons. I could greatly relate with David Mann. I get the usual road rage and accompanying paranoia, when I drive alone. I felt the anger, the fear, and all the dastardly and horrific (even vengeful and murderous) thoughts that his mind kept playing during the chase scenes. But then again, even those thoughts and feelings when he wasn't behind the wheel...that's the second reason. I could relate. Richard Matheson easily, and vividly w...more

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Mar 27, 2012 Kate rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012, age-adult, horror, audiobooks

Road Rage contains two novellas: Duel by Richard Matheson, and Throttle by Joe Hill and Stephen King. I listened to this on audio, and it seemed like the perfect subject to be listening to while driving in the car.

In "Duel," billed as a classic that inspired "Throttle," the main character, Man, is driving to a sales meeting when he passes a truck. Then the truck passes him. As this battle goes on, Man wavers from thinking he's reading too much into things to becoming convinced that the trucker i...more Road Rage contains two novellas: Duel by Richard Matheson, and Throttle by Joe Hill and Stephen King. I listened to this on audio, and it seemed like the perfect subject to be listening to while driving in the car.

In "Duel," billed as a classic that inspired "Throttle," the main character, Man, is driving to a sales meeting when he passes a truck. Then the truck passes him. As this battle goes on, Man wavers from thinking he's reading too much into things to becoming convinced that the trucker is a psycho set on his destruction. With the side of the truck reading "Keller" which Man misreads as "Killer," he finds himself driving for his life...

The narrator for this novel sounded so much like Vincent Price that I found myself giggling when he snarled such lines as, "You son of a bitch." I did not have the same issue with the narrator for the King/Hill story, so it was clearly Matheson's writing style that did it for me. Matheson is also the author of "I Am Legend" which was made into the movie "The Last Man on Earth" starring Vincent Price...

In "Throttle," a tribe of bikers on the run from a murder that occurred during some kind of meth deal gone bad arrive at a truck stop and argue about it near a truck that says "Laughlin" on it. The leader, Vince, misreads it as "Slaughterin." The truck pulls away, and later the bikers "catch up" to the truck... only a short time later realizing that the trucker has been waiting for them so he can run them over from behind one by one...

I'm a huge fan of both Stephen King and Joe Hill, but I had a hard time really getting into this story. I never quite got a handle on what kind of deal was happening to cause the murder. I did enjoy the parallels to Vietnam and the complicated relationship between Vince and his son Race. The narrator sounded more natural reading this story although some of the voices he uses for various bikers got really low-pitched and difficult to understand.

Overall this was a short book (2 discs) that was fun to listen to while driving... you'll never look at truckers the same way!(less)

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May 26, 2010 Michael rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: audio-book, read-in-2010

My four star rating is an average of my rating for the two novellas included in this audio collection.

Duel by Richard Matheson -- Five Stars
One of the good things about the Will Smith version of "I Am Legend" hitting the big-screen is that it brought a lot of harder to find work of Richard Matheson back into print, introducing a new generation of fans to him. "Legend" is one of his strongest offerings, but it seems the man could really do no wrong and he was an absolute master of the short story...more My four star rating is an average of my rating for the two novellas included in this audio collection.

Duel by Richard Matheson -- Five Stars
One of the good things about the Will Smith version of "I Am Legend" hitting the big-screen is that it brought a lot of harder to find work of Richard Matheson back into print, introducing a new generation of fans to him. "Legend" is one of his strongest offerings, but it seems the man could really do no wrong and he was an absolute master of the short story and novella.

That mastery shows with "Duel." The story is a simple one--a man driving on a California highway one hot summer afternoon enters into a game of chicken when a huge semi. The situation begins innocently enough with our hero, Mann, passing the truck and slowly devolves into a game of wills and utter paranoia as the truck and its driver seem to have it in for Mann. The slow descent into obsession is marvelously played out over the course of the story and watching Mann's increasing desperation to defeat the truck is a fascinating, compelling and scary journey. If you've ever been tailgated by a semi on a two-lane road, you'll understand how easy it is to slip into the madness that grips and eventually consumes Mann.

Taut, driven and compelling, the story is an example of Matheson at his finest. It shows his skill of taking ordinary people and putting them into extraordinary situations of high tension in order to observe how they react--both positively and negatively. Mann is self-aware enough, at times, to realize just how crazy his current situation is even though at others he's so consumed by the need to out run the truck or to beat it that he's blinded to the possible implications. It's a great story and wonderfully brought to life in this audio release.

"Throttle" by Stephen King and Joe Hill
Stephen King has stated (in fact, it's a blurb on the cover of most reissues of Matheson's books) that Matheson is one of the writers who influenced him the most. That's apparent in a large majority of King's writings, though it's not necessarily on as great a display here in "Throttle." Written with his son, Joe Hill, the story is meant as an homage to Matheson and "Duel" and while it has its moments, it pales by comparison.

A group of bikers, fleeing a bad investment in a meth lab and murder, encounter a mysterious semi that takes on supernatural like proportions in a road game of cat and mouse. The story has potential and maybe if I'd heard it before I listened to "Duel" I would have liked it more. Instead, the story is a more violent version that has too many irons in the fire to be truly satisfying. (less)

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Dec 03, 2011 William Thomas rated it 3 of 5 stars

I can remember when it seemed like WPWR channel 50 and WGN channel 9 would play Duel as their Sunday movie of the week what seemed like every week. I can't for the life of me see how the film version could have competently captured the tension of Mann's internal dialogue. I can't see as it could have built up the fear without having a second person in the car as there is no dialogue. I just can't see this movie version being any good.

Suffice it to say, I never watched it. Had probably hundreds...more

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Aug 15, 2011 Adam Wilson rated it 4 of 5 stars

Road Rage is an all-to short novella "collection" by Stephen King, his son Joe Hill, and Richard Matheson. To me, and to you if you are a horror fan, this should sound like a gift from...well whoever delivers wonderous things upon us. I guess that would be the authors of this great audio experience. I must say though that putting Duel by Matheson (one of the best short stories I've ever read) next to Hill and King's Throttle is a bit like putting a well-dressed and highly professional mathematic...more

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Aug 21, 2011 Noah Soudrette rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: audio, joe-hill

This audio contains the classic Richard Matheson novella Duel, and the Stephen King/Joe Hill sequel-in-style-only, Throttle. Duel is an undeniable classic and a great example of a perfect piece of thriller writing. In comparison then, Throttle doesn't quite live up to the original, but then that's not the point. Hill and King take some elements from the original and craft a story all their own, and while I didn't find the ending to be truly satisfying, the story is well written and entertaining....more

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Sep 04, 2012 Kristal Cooper rated it 3 of 5 stars

Not for everyone, but definitely a good choice for a short road trip! "Throttle" is the better of the two, just because we expect more detail and drama from our thrillers in this day and age. The banter in the diner cracked me up and the violence made me cringe. Best part though? The whole time, they're headed to Show Low, Arizona -- just 7 miles up the road from my home town! (Though clearly King and Hill have never been there because they make the mistake of assuming there are saguaro nearby!...more

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Apr 29, 2013 John Wiswell rated it 5 of 5 stars

This was always going to get five stars, even before I picked it up, because although it only has two stories, one is Richard Matheson’s “Duel.” The narrator would have had to mess it horribly, and he certainly didn’t.

“Duel” is one of my favorite short stories, being the purest form of a conflict drama, a salesman on the highway pursued by an enigmatic and increasingly violent tanker truck. It’s so strong that the fifth time I read it, sitting on an Amtrak train, after a few pages I unconsciousl...more This was always going to get five stars, even before I picked it up, because although it only has two stories, one is Richard Matheson’s “Duel.” The narrator would have had to mess it horribly, and he certainly didn’t.

“Duel” is one of my favorite short stories, being the purest form of a conflict drama, a salesman on the highway pursued by an enigmatic and increasingly violent tanker truck. It’s so strong that the fifth time I read it, sitting on an Amtrak train, after a few pages I unconsciously checked behind myself to see if a truck was following me. It’s a master class in hooks and delivery, climbing gradually out of the salesman’s mundane thoughts about making his meeting and getting a hot bath, that sleepy lull your thoughts get after hours at the wheel, into horrified speculation about who would try to run him off the road. As the truck becomes more and more insistent, the man realizes there is nowhere he can escape from it, which ought to wear itself out, but Matheson paces it perfectly, alternating between escalating events, morbid suggestions of intent, and our salesman’s internal monologue as he tries to make sense of things and gradually loses his grip. It’s a fable of a giant bear for the automotative world.

Stepehn Lang doesn’t narrate it like I’ve ever imagined it, but his work is good. He has a wan voice, reciting his paragraphs, and occasionally leaning in or growing agitated in a way that coaxes emotion out of me, because if this haggard speaker is worried, then I also ought to be. He has obvious talent.

He gets more material to work with in King and Hill’s “Throttle,” the story of The Tribe, a drug-running biker gang that is waylaid by a mystery attacker in a semi-truck. Set beside “Duel” its homage is obvious, but the comparison makes “Throttle” seem tacky, particularly for its high frequency of graphic violence. The descriptions of bile, vomit, blood, bones sticking out through skin, a shovel jammed into a skull and men run over by cars are exactly the kind of shock value that “Duel” doesn’t need, and reminds me of the old Alfed Hitchcock quote: “There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.” “Throttle” is largely bang until the pathos of its climax, which is certainly clever, but still sits on top of a giant highway brawl. That attack, the meat of the story, is a reasonable fight scene, and Lang delivers some of the murders with sinister gravitas, but it’s an odd companion piece to the prolonged tension over the possibility of one man being hurt in “Duel.”

To be fair to “Throttle,” I waited a few days and listened to it again without “Duel.” Lang does an excellent job, one of the best narrations of a short story I’ve heard in a long time. It still feels like an excuse for graphic violence, not much depth or pathos to the criminals who are eventually torn up by their truck-villain. A story that is primarily a battle scene is fair beside one that’s essentially a chase scene; this is just far more garish, far more “bang.” And it’s got a brilliant way of revealing who the attacker is.

Despite the titling, neither story is a novella; they're both short stories, neither lasting much more than an hour. They're both entertaining and splendidly narrated hours. Come for “Duel,” sit deep for “Throttle,” and see which you prefer. Happy driving.(less)

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Oct 19, 2012 Linda Munro rated it 4 of 5 stars

I actually picked this up in audiobook format to listen to on my trips back and forth to the doctor and physical therapist. If I would have read this, it probably would have received a lesser rating; however, when listening to this audiobook, with two novellas concerning maniac semi drivers killing people on the highway for sport while driving on the thruway surrounded by semis was a bit freaky to say the least.

My recommendation...if you want to experience this book, get an audio copy, head to...more

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Jul 31, 2010 Chris rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: audiobook

This set of two stories was a nice diversion while driving down I-75 for a couple of hours this afternoon.

Then again, it had me looking in my mirror a few times whenever I got close to a trucker...

But very enjoyable and Stephen Lang does a good job reading them. The first story was one that I was familiar with, "Duel" by Richard Matheson. I'd seen the movie done by Spielberg so pretty much knew how this went. Still, I was pleased with Matheson's style here, though much of the suspense was lost s...more

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Sep 09, 2012 Teena rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novels, 2012

"Duel" was great, although I wonder how much I would have liked it had I not been basically replaying the movie in my head while I read. "Throttle" was not nearly as good. I found it fairly disappointing, as I thought a story by both Stephen King and Joe Hill would have to be amazing. Perhaps my expectations were a bit high.

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May 08, 2010 Jessica rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: audio-book

Two great stories by two of my favorite authors, Richard Matheson and Stephen King, and Joe Hill (who is Stephen King's son), who I am just now "getting to know." The stories were short, edge-of-your-seat, OMFG, wide-eyed misadventures of road raging truck drivers. Good stuff!

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Mar 15, 2013 Stef rated it 3 of 5 stars

Probably not the best book to read/listen to on a road trip. I eyed everyone on the road with suspicion, afterwards. Great Hill/King collaboration.

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Feb 09, 2011 Steven rated it 4 of 5 stars

Duel by Matheson is a classic short story that was the basis for Steven Speilberg's first movie. King and his son Hill take their own shot at the same plot with Throttle. The contrast is amazing. What a neat writing exercise.

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Sep 24, 2012 George Wilhite added it · review of another edition

This was great to listen to on the ipod. The classic from Matheson and the new twist bu King and Hill.

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Jan 27, 2012 Mo rated it 3 of 5 stars

Road Rage 3 stars
Throttle 4 Stars

Wish good reads would allow for individual ratings for short story collection books

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May 23, 2012 Brian rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-in-2012, dark

Meh....not that exciting but well written. I expected a little more.

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Aug 25, 2009 Denise M. marked it as to-read

Shelves: hill-joe

AKA: Joseph Hillstrom King - son of Tabitha & Stephen King

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Dec 10, 2012 Dana * rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2012, graphic-novel, horror

the road rage story had artwork that was distracting and at time impossible to decipher, it distracted from the story.
The Throttle story was good, artwork was good.

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Jan 12, 2012 Johnna rated it 5 of 5 stars

Really, really good.

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Jul 11, 2012 Tom Mueller rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: audio, classic, sai-king

WOOTWOOTWOOT!!
Stephen King and son Joe Hill's [named after THE Joe Hill:] nod to Matheson is most excellent. Bikers, rather than Matheson's salesman, give us a less subtle - but very effective - message. The irony in the ending is twistier than both deadly roads combined.

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May 24, 2010 Sandi rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: audio, crime-mystery-thriller-suspense, read-2010

Special audio only version with Matheson's classic story "Duel" (which was made into a TV movie by Stephen Spielberg) and "Throttle" by Joe Hill and Stephen King. Both stories were very good though "Duel" was a bit less graphic. Read by Stephen Lang.

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