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mae
03-29-2010, 07:32 AM
Hearts in Atlantis, 1999
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Please vote for Hearts in Atlantis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearts_in_Atlantis) 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.
Daghain
03-29-2010, 08:26 AM
I gave this a three. I just recently reread it, and yeah...average.
Jean
03-29-2010, 10:33 AM
Same from bears.
Kronz
03-29-2010, 11:58 AM
If it was just Low Men in Yellow Coats I'd give it 5. As is, four. An oddly structured book.
mae
03-29-2010, 12:00 PM
Three for me as well. It was very good in parts, worthy of a four, but in other parts in just dragged.
pathoftheturtle
03-29-2010, 03:56 PM
...An oddly structured book.Definitely. Unique among King's work. I love the whole, absolutely. 5!
BROWNINGS CHILDE
03-29-2010, 04:05 PM
Gave it a 3.
Ruthful
03-29-2010, 04:19 PM
I gave this a three. I just recently reread it, and yeah...average.

I would give the title story and Low Men In Yellow Coats a 5, but the highest grade any of the other stories deserve is a 2, and even that's a stretch.
Daghain
03-29-2010, 04:27 PM
Yeah, I kind of took an average there. :D
pathoftheturtle
03-29-2010, 04:30 PM
:(

Well, I know other people than me liked "Hearts In Atlantis." Maybe none on this website, tho. :cry:

I really hope that he'll publish The House on Benefit Street.
Sam
03-29-2010, 06:50 PM
Not quite a 5, but I give it a hard 4.
Hannah
03-30-2010, 02:08 PM
A 5 from me. I liked all the stories. :)
pathoftheturtle
03-30-2010, 02:24 PM
:D:nana:
divemaster
03-30-2010, 03:30 PM
Very close to a 5 from me. I just re-read it a few months ago. Low Men in Yellow Coats is terrific and the others are "pretty good." Works out to a 4 overall.
ur2ndbiggestfan
03-30-2010, 04:35 PM
4 from me, really liked it. Yes, it was oddly structured, but it all worked beautifully together. Too bad the same can't be said of the movie adaptation.
Canada
03-30-2010, 06:45 PM
3. Average. Loved Low Men in Yellow Coats, and Hearts in Atlantis, but the others almost seemed...rushed, like they were put in as afterthought. The meat was definitely in the beginning.
mikeC
03-31-2010, 05:54 AM
The story Hearts in Atlantis is probably my favorite story by him.
Heartfelt, personal and such an honest story.
This is when I started to really enjoy reading him again.
Low men was pretty good. (William Hurt is a great narrator on the audio version, he sounds so sad the whole time)
The first time I read this I read the first 2 and skipped the others to find out if Bobby comes back. When I listened to it again, I found the story about the guy in traffic to be awesome, cool stuff.
5.
Darkthoughts
03-31-2010, 06:59 AM
If it was just Low Men in Yellow Coats I'd give it 5.

Same here. I gave it a 3 as a whole. I don't know what it was about the other stories that I couldn't get into, nothing I can put my finger on.
CyberGhostface
04-04-2010, 07:00 PM
One of my faves. Just a beautiful book. I love how the stories interconnect with one another.
mae
04-05-2010, 07:56 AM
The poll has closed. Hearts in Atlantis has earned a FAS (final average score) of 4.030303030 or 80.61%, placing 1st (winner) in this bracket. It will be moving on to Round 2. In 2009, Hearts in Atlantis also placed 1st with a FAS of 4.067567568, so it lost 0.037264538 (-0.92%) this time.