Group 3: Black House

[mae]

Black House, 2001
http://www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/510/medium/Black_House_trade_face.jpg

Please grade Black House (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_House_(novel)) in the following three areas using the grades A, B, or C:


Strength of Plot
Character Development
Quality of the Story's Ending


If you haven't read this book yet, please vote Never Read. Feel free to discuss your votes in this thread.

IMPORTANT: Please make sure to select only one grade in each grading area. For complete instructions, see this post (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showpost.php?p=314275&postcount=1).

[Sam]

The Talisman and Black House... the only two King stories that I have never opened. I don't know why, I just never have.

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

Never read. Didn't care much for the Talisman though.

[Melike]

AAB. One of my favorites.

[Jean]

Never read. Didn't care much for the Talisman though.
Neither do I; BH is, however, something completely different

all As, of course... though the ending is kinda A minus (the very last piece is kinda corny-ish, never really liked that female, especially not the way she talked)

[John_and_Yoko]

Never read. Didn't care much for the Talisman though.

I didn't like The Talisman or the first half of Black House.

The SECOND half, though....

[alinda]

All A's from me....I love this book !

[pathoftheturtle]

Kinda tricky to judge the ending, because it's so complicated.This is one of those books with nested endings. Not always the best technique, really. First there's the victorious ending suitable for an epic, heroic romance, which we're told that we can stop with.Hey, we were warned that we might not like it. lol. Again, we're asked to let the ending of this be the ending. "Let's leave them hoping."The language is kind of corny, as is the fact that this is mostly exposition, setting up the next sequel. That DID leave most of us wanting more, tho. This ending ends with Speedy simply saying, "Ka." Pretty powerful... if we hadn't heard it several times before.All this was was just the authors committing themselves to how and why of Jack's revival. I must admit it's nice to know that there'll be no twists or suspense about that! They can just move on.Altogether, the intended effect of all these seems to be creating a sense of endlessness. For the middle volume of a series, that's not such a bad idea. I would have preferred something stronger, but I do think that what they did worked okay here. :orely:

[Daghain]

BBB. This one just didn't do it for me like The Talisman did.

[Jon]

I love Henry!

[mae]

The poll has closed. This round Black House has earned an OAG (overall average grade) of 2.597484277 or 86.58% in addition to its FAS (final average score), making it 6.855060035 or 85.69%. In 2009, Black House received an OAG of 2.624413145 for a FAS of 6.935223956, so it lost 0.080163921 (-1.16%) this time.

Grade breakdown:
Strength of Plot: 2.566037736 (85.53%)
Character Development: 2.716981132 (90.57%)
Quality of the Story's Ending: 2.509433962 (83.65%)

[Jean]

grrrr.......