Bracket #12: Duma Key (2008)

[mae]

Duma Key, 2008
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Please vote for Duma Key (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duma_Key) 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 a lot

[Tito_Villa]

Wow what a book, looking forward to a re-read :) ... 5

[Sam]

It gets a 5. This is King's best this decade, hands down. Not The Dark Tower, not Under the Dome, not Lisey's Story, Duma Key.

[candy]

loved this book so much

funny how all his books are so different

[Jean]

It gets a 5. This is King's best this decade, hands down. Not The Dark Tower, not Under the Dome, not Lisey's Story, Duma Key.
Now we agree!!!

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[Jean]

I like the way the results look now... time to close the poll?...

[Daghain]

This is another book I'd give a 6 if I could. I absolutely loved it!

[mae]

Straight fives so far. One from me as well. Excellent novel, read it in less than a week.

[Jean]

This is another book I'd give a 6 if I could. I absolutely loved it!

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[ur2ndbiggestfan]

A 3 from me. I liked some of this book (when the painting frenzy first started), but the rest seemed too long, too overwritten, and too repetitive. How many times does the accident have to be described? I got it the first time, thank you. However, I had no trouble reading this book, despite my criticisms it did flow right along.

[Ageless Stranger]

Have not read it, yet.

[Heather19]

Loved it! One of my favorites.

[Jean]

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[pathoftheturtle]

A 3 from me. I liked some of this book (when the painting frenzy first started), but the rest seemed too long, too overwritten, and too repetitive. How many times does the accident have to be described? I got it the first time, thank you. However, I had no trouble reading this book, despite my criticisms it did flow right along.I agree with you. That's why I gave it a 4.

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

4 from me as well.

[Kronz]

It's very encouraging to see such high marks for this novel. I found a like-new copy of the hard back for $8 in December but haven't put it in the queue to read yet. It might be the next King I read, and from the looks of it I'll love it. I've done everything I can to avoid even knowing what it's about. Body pain and lawn jockeys in Florida or some such is all I know aside from the general consensus that it's awesome. I should have read it in time to vote but these polls came quicker than expected.

[mae]

I should have read it in time to vote but these polls came quicker than expected.

Tempus fugit :)

[pathoftheturtle]

...I've done everything I can to avoid even knowing what it's about. Body pain and lawn jockeys in Florida or some such is all I know aside from the general consensus that it's awesome...:panic: Oh, no! Someone should have tagged that! Big, fat spoiler! :cry: Sorry, dude.

[fernandito]

A 3 from me. I liked some of this book (when the painting frenzy first started), but the rest seemed too long, too overwritten, and too repetitive. How many times does the accident have to be described? I got it the first time, thank you.

All of this, + one of the most anti-climatic endings I've ever read.

2.

[divemaster]

Another very close to 5 but not quite. Thus, 4.

[Kronz]

...I've done everything I can to avoid even knowing what it's about. Body pain and lawn jockeys in Florida or some such is all I know aside from the general consensus that it's awesome...:panic: Oh, no! Someone should have tagged that! Big, fat spoiler! :cry: Sorry, dude.

Well, I think it'll be ok. As long as it's a horror novel from King I suspect pretty much any mundane item is a bit off... Not sure where I read about that part but it must not have been tagged since I never open them on books I plan to read, or at least I thought I never did.

[pathoftheturtle]

Cool, cool. I was just kind of joking, Kronz. You'd better watch out on this thread, though. Srsly, I'd stop reading *right now* !




A 3 from me. I liked some of this book (when the painting frenzy first started), but the rest seemed too long, too overwritten, and too repetitive. How many times does the accident have to be described? I got it the first time, thank you.

All of this, + one of the most anti-climatic endings I've ever read.

2.Well, yeah, there's that. <_< Mebbe I should've gone 3, after all. :orely:

[mikeC]

Way too long.
I'm not a big fan of steve's books that deal with art or paintings: road virus, rose madder, ect.
He seems to keep going to that well but it never turns out that cool.

[Woofer]

Didn't read the comments. Can't afford, so never read it is. :)

[mae]

The poll has closed. Duma Key has earned a FAS (final average score) of 4.475409836 or 89.51%, placing 1st (winner) in this bracket. It will be moving on to Round 2. In 2009, Duma Key also placed 1st in this bracket with a FAS of 4.437500000, so it gained 0.037909836 (+0.85%) this time.

[Tito_Villa]

As Homer Simpson would say WooooooHoooooooo :D

[fernandito]

Boooooooooooooooooo!!