Bracket #12: Blaze (2007)

[mae]

Blaze, 2007
http://www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/510/medium/Blaze_face.jpg

Please vote for Blaze (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaze_(novel)) 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]

loved it...

[Sam]

I thought this was one of the weakest of the Bachman stories. I've read it once, and tried to give it a second chance. I wanted to like it, but I just couldn't make it through the second time. It gets a 2.

[candy]

for me its one of the stronger bachman books
could only give it a 4 though, as i have more favouriter books (my lord, my english has gone on holiday)

[Jean]

I thought this was one of the weakest of the Bachman stories. I've read it once, and tried to give it a second chance. I wanted to like it, but I just couldn't make it through the second time. It gets a 2.
fair exchange for Lisey's story... 5:2 -------- 2:5

[Tito_Villa]

I thought this was great too, i very touching story ... 5

[Daghain]

I loved it. Five.

[Jean]

I thought this was great too, i very touching story ... 5
touching doesn't even begin to describe it... bears bawled their eyes out...

[ur2ndbiggestfan]

A 2 from me. What spoiled this book for me was Blaze talking to his dead 'buddy', and all the voices in his head. As far as I know, nobody has voices in their heads that tell them what to do, and if Blaze does have this condition, the book did not convince me that he did. I had the same problem with A BEAUTIFUL MIND. I just wasn't convinced.

[Ageless Stranger]

Have not read it yet.

[Sam]

A 2 from me. What spoiled this book for me was Blaze talking to his dead 'buddy', and all the voices in his head. As far as I know, nobody has voices in their heads that tell them what to do, and if Blaze does have this condition, the book did not convince me that he did. I had the same problem with A BEAUTIFUL MIND. I just wasn't convinced.

You've probably never had any dealings with a bad Schizophrenic. I have and they hear things that we don't (voices in their head) and see things we don't. I once had to remove and elephant from an inmate's cell so he would calm down and go to sleep. Of course it wasn't there, but he saw it and it was as real to him as you or I, maybe even more real.

[Ben Mears]

Best of the Bachman books. I wish he would polish up Sword In The Darkness the same as he did with Blaze and publish it. I love the edginess of his early work.
Sometimes I wonder what would have happened had Doubleday selected the Blaze manuscript over Second Coming back in 1973.

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

4.

[divemaster]

Solid 4. Good story.

[mikeC]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

[Woofer]

See my comments on Duma Key.

[CyberGhostface]

Doesn't really feel like a Bachman story, but I loved it anyway.

[mae]

The poll has closed. Blaze has earned a FAS (final average score) of 3.851063830 or 77.02%, placing 3rd in this bracket. It will not be moving on to Round 2. In 2009, Blaze placed 5th (last) in this bracket with a FAS of 3.698113208, so it gained 0.152950622 (+4.14%) this time.