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mae
03-01-2010, 08:35 AM
'Salem's Lot, 1975
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Please vote for 'Salem's Lot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Salem%27s_Lot) using the following scale:

5: I loved it
4: It was good
3: Average
2: Only so-so
1: I didn't like it

If you haven't read this book yet, please vote Never Read. Feel free to discuss your votes in this thread.
Sam
03-01-2010, 08:57 AM
One of King's best works.
Sickrose
03-01-2010, 09:19 AM
I agree i thoroughly enjoyed it and found it pretty scary too.
candy
03-01-2010, 10:42 AM
i too loved it, i think this one is a cert to go through
Solar
03-01-2010, 11:37 AM
King's best book IMO
vacant lot
03-01-2010, 05:02 PM
Excellent read. Held you captive.
BROWNINGS CHILDE
03-01-2010, 05:35 PM
5. Loved it.
mae
03-03-2010, 12:25 PM
This one was the bracket winner the last time. Looks like it's shaping up to do this same this year :)
Hannah
03-03-2010, 12:27 PM
I'm thinking I should read this. :unsure:
mae
03-03-2010, 12:30 PM
I'm thinking I should read this. :unsure:

:o
Hannah
03-03-2010, 12:40 PM
I'm thinking I should read this. :unsure:

:o

:blush: I'm the only one that voted never read apparently. I feel so guilty!
Jean
03-03-2010, 12:50 PM
I'm thinking I should read this. :unsure:

:o

:blush: I'm the only one that voted never read apparently. I feel so guilty!
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Oh Lord, I so wish you could turn the clock back and read it before you read DT5!
divemaster
03-03-2010, 01:02 PM
Great book. 5 for sure.
SynysterSaint
03-03-2010, 03:16 PM
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Oh Lord, I so wish you could turn the clock back and read it before you read DT5!

That's what I ended up doing when I first saw that Callahan was in The Wolves of the Calla. I dropped it and picked up 'Salem's Lot, and you know what? 'Salem's Lot is now one of my favorite books! I absolutely love that story. Almost as much as The Dark Tower series, to be completely honest.
pathoftheturtle
03-03-2010, 03:43 PM
Wow. So popular! Will I be booed down for saying that I really don't think it's all that?
Ben Mears
03-03-2010, 06:05 PM
I have read this book annually since 1976. Suffice it to say it is my favorite.
SynysterSaint
03-03-2010, 07:08 PM
Wow. So popular! Will I be booed down for saying that I really don't think it's all that?

You won't be boo'd, but you'll certainly have to explain yourself! :orely:
Jean
03-03-2010, 10:03 PM
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Oh Lord, I so wish you could turn the clock back and read it before you read DT5!

That's what I ended up doing when I first saw that Callahan was in The Wolves of the Calla. I dropped it and picked up 'Salem's Lot, and you know what? 'Salem's Lot is now one of my favorite books! I absolutely love that story. Almost as much as The Dark Tower series, to be completely honest.
Oh, when you already saw Callahan in DT5 it was too late! Nothing can compare with that feeling of total happiness you would have felt if you just had stumbled upon him, without any notice! It's an experience that is hardly possible now, because too many years have passed since DT5 was published, and everybody kinda knows the layout, whether or not they have read it; but then, at that time, it was like a bomb exploding in your brain, in a good way.


Wow. So popular! Will I be booed down for saying that I really don't think it's all that?

Yes, you will.

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Wow. So popular! Will I be booed down for saying that I really don't think it's all that?

You won't be boo'd, but you'll certainly have to explain yourself! :orely:
Only please, please, if there's to be any detailed argument, let it take place in 'Salem's Lot thread.
SynysterSaint
03-04-2010, 02:46 AM
Oh, when you already saw Callahan in DT5 it was too late! Nothing can compare with that feeling of total happiness you would have felt if you just had stumbled upon him, without any notice! It's an experience that is hardly possible now, because too many years have passed since DT5 was published, and everybody kinda knows the layout, whether or not they have read it; but then, at that time, it was like a bomb exploding in your brain, in a good way.

It said it at the end of the fourth book and on the back of the fifth book at the bookstore I go to. I had no chance of not knowing :(


Only please, please, if there's to be any detailed argument, let it take place in 'Salem's Lot thread.

Not a problem, Jean ;)
mae
03-04-2010, 10:06 AM
Weird. As of right now, only 38 people voted for 'Salem's Lot. Most other polls have at least twice as many votes ...
pathoftheturtle
03-04-2010, 02:26 PM
I definitely liked Wolves of the Calla.
Dunno if I really need to make a detailed argument here... if you've read King's new intro in more recent editions, he says that he'd once thought that he could cross Stoker's Dracula with E.C. Comics and produce the Great American Novel. 'Salem's Lot turned out to be a lot more than that, (his talent for depicting communities was emerging) but I still don't think that it's any masterpiece, or even really one of Kings greatest works.
Nonetheless, I definitely liked Wolves of the Calla.
Hannah
03-04-2010, 02:38 PM
Weird. As of right now, only 38 people voted for 'Salem's Lot. Most other polls have at least twice as many votes ...

Maybe there are others like me who haven't read but don't have the guts to say so in here. :fairy:
Patrick
03-05-2010, 09:41 PM
I wish I had read this book before reading DTV, but I didn't.

4 - It was good.
mae
03-07-2010, 11:45 AM
This was maybe the third or fourth King book I read. Scared the jeebus out of me. I read Wolves of the Calla many a year later.
mae
03-08-2010, 08:55 AM
The poll has closed. 'Salem's Lot has earned a FAS (final average score) of 4.581395349 or 91.63%, placing 2nd (runner-up) in this bracket. It will be moving on to Round 2. In 2009, 'Salem's Lot also placed 2nd with a FAS of 4.292307692, so it gained 0.289087657 (+6.74%) this time.