Bracket #12: Lisey's Story (2006)

[mae]

Lisey's Story, 2006
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Please vote for Lisey's Story (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisey%27s_Story) 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.

[Jean]

2, and that only because of Amanda and everything connected with her, or else it would have been 1 at best

[Sam]

Poor Jean. I cannot express how much it hurts to know that you hated this book. I found it to be a terribly romantic story that spoke great volumes about the nature and growth of an intimate love between two people. Unlike virtually every other King story, this one really IS a love story. I give it a 5.

[Jean]

I will, I will try to read it again! http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/0134-bear.gifhttp://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/0134-bear.gifhttp://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/0134-bear.gif

[candy]

sam - there is no 5 showing?:panic:

i gave it a 4 (it got better on a reread)

[Sam]

If you don't like it, you don't like it. You can't help that. I wish I knew what I could say to help you to enjoy it more, but I don't. I know the manner Lisey talked turned some people off as they saw her as a silly character. I found her to be interesting and a little conservative, but realistic. I thought she conveyed the loss of her husband very well from the way she dealt with his office and even to her tasting the ancient piece of their wedding cake. Things like that make some people say who in their right mind would do that, but I respond that this was an action done by someone who absently wanted that connection to the person who mattered most in their life but had been removed their life forever. Small things like that actually hit very hard for me (partly because in the back of my mind I wonder how long it will be before I'm doing things like that, but that's for a different day) and show me just where King's thoughts really were after he was struck by that van. This really is one of his most subtle and powerful stories, but it's the little things in the story that show that, not the major plot itself.

[Sam]

Candy, there should be a 5 showing now.

[candy]

there it is:)

and i loved the way you summed the book up! all those reasons are the reasons i liked it so much on the re-read, on first read i think it was my own fault as i expected a different tale

[Tito_Villa]

One of my favourites and im not usually a fan of love stories, i think Sam summed it up very well ...5

[Daghain]

I gave it a four. It had a slow start, but by the mid-way point I was hooked.

[Jean]

If you don't like it, you don't like it. You can't help that. I wish I knew what I could say to help you to enjoy it more, but I don't. I know the manner Lisey talked turned some people off as they saw her as a silly character. I found her to be interesting and a little conservative, but realistic. I thought she conveyed the loss of her husband very well from the way she dealt with his office and even to her tasting the ancient piece of their wedding cake. Things like that make some people say who in their right mind would do that, but I respond that this was an action done by someone who absently wanted that connection to the person who mattered most in their life but had been removed their life forever. Small things like that actually hit very hard for me (partly because in the back of my mind I wonder how long it will be before I'm doing things like that, but that's for a different day) and show me just where King's thoughts really were after he was struck by that van. This really is one of his most subtle and powerful stories, but it's the little things in the story that show that, not the major plot itself.

can you please re-post it in Lisey's Story thread, or if you want, I can just copy this post there. I want to go on with this talk, I am even beginning to feel like doing that re-reading much sooner than I had planned... http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/bearheart.gif
P.S. It's really time you stopped - for a little while! - posting intelligent things and came to your Birthday thread!!! the cakes are getting stale, and the fireworks sure won't wait!
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[Sam]

I dropped in on the birthday thread, and you can feel free to post that in the Lisey's Story thread.

[ur2ndbiggestfan]

I know some people like this book, but I absolutely detested it. That is the kindest word I can think of to describe it. I absolutely hated all the characters, they all seemed either totally dull or psychotic to me. The fantasy parts didn't work. And over and over and over referring to what happened at that book signing or whatever it was. By the time it was actually explained in full I was ready to throw the book against the wall. And Lisey's meals did not interest me in the least, just the opposite. About the only thing I did like was the description of her husband's writing room, but that was only about one percent of the story. A negative 1000.
So why did I buy the paperback and the first UK hardcover? Because I'm a collector.

[Ageless Stranger]

I did not like it, at all.

Bool, the end.

[biomieg]

So why did I buy the paperback and the first UK hardcover? Because I'm a collector.

Truer words have never been spoken :D

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

Currently reading it. Not impressed. Currently reading it. Not impressed. Currently reading it. Not impressed. etc. etc. etc....

[Woofer]

2, and that only because of Amanda and everything connected with her, or else it would have been 1 at best

Wolves felt the same way!

[divemaster]

I *wanted* to like this book. Another good character mired in a pretty stupid story. I guess it's telling that I started reading this one in October of 2007 while on vacation. Got about halfway through it and then didn't pick it up again to finish for about a year. Not typical of me at all, even for novels I'm not really into.

I give it a 2, and that's generous. Mainly, b/c I can think of at least 5 or 6 worse, and those are the 1's.

[mikeC]

Poor Jean. I cannot express how much it hurts to know that you hated this book. I found it to be a terribly romantic story that spoke great volumes about the nature and growth of an intimate love between two people. Unlike virtually every other King story, this one really IS a love story. I give it a 5.

Bingo.
Right on.
I'm not much on love stories at all but I consider this one of Steve's best, most emotional, well written and completely unique novels.
No signs of a king-ish monster, the supernatural part of this book isn't what makes the book great but really seperates it from most of his "monsters"

[CyberGhostface]

I enjoyed all the parts with the husband (his backstory with his father and brother) but Lisey herself didn't interest me.

[Chantarelle]

I *wanted* to like this book. Another good character mired in a pretty stupid story. I guess it's telling that I started reading this one in October of 2007 while on vacation. Got about halfway through it and then didn't pick it up again to finish for about a year. Not typical of me at all, even for novels I'm not really into.

I give it a 2, and that's generous. Mainly, b/c I can think of at least 5 or 6 worse, and those are the 1's.

"I wanted to like this book" totally sums up my feelings on this one. In fact I wanted to like it so much that I felt cheated when I disliked it as much as I did.
And I too am giving it a 2 because I can think of worse. (But only 1)

[mae]

The poll has closed. Lisey's Story has earned a FAS (final average score) of 3.491525424 or 69.83%, placing 5th (last) in this bracket. It will not be moving on to Round 2. In 2009, Lisey's Story placed 4th in this bracket with a FAS of 3.703125000, so it lost 0.211599576 (-5.71%) this time.