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Jean
03-08-2012, 09:25 AM
Skeleton Crew, 1985
http://www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/510/medium/Skeleton_Crew_trade_face.jpg

Please grade Skeleton Crew (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeleton_Crew) in the following three areas using the grades A, B, or C:


Entertainment Quality of the Stories
Memorability of the Stories
Effectiveness of Plot Delivery in the Stories


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).
frik
03-08-2012, 09:42 AM
B-B-B

sk
mae
03-08-2012, 09:44 AM
Triple A. Has some of King's best shorts ever, such as Nona, Flexible Bullet, Mist, Survivor Type, The Raft... I can just pretty much list the table of contents :) King's best short story collection, no doubt.
Jean
03-08-2012, 09:53 AM
B-B-B

sk

ditto


Triple A. Has some of King's best shorts ever, such as Nona, Flexible Bullet, Mist, Survivor Type, The Raft... I can just pretty much list the table of contents :) King's best short story collection, no doubt.
yes, an A+ for Flexible Bullet; the rest never really impressed bears
divemaster
03-08-2012, 12:41 PM
Went with A B B.

Hard to grade when there are some very good stories, yet a handful that did nothing for me and I can't remember hardly at all between readings.
pathoftheturtle
03-08-2012, 02:18 PM
Definitely an A on memorability. "Effectiveness of Plot Delivery" was the tough one for me, here. Bonus for the theme; (you know, the "Do You Love?" motif) only time he did it just like that, and I like it. Yet it's still kind of a morass... what with the poems, some stories not as good as others... giving that category a B here, I guess.
BROWNINGS CHILDE
03-08-2012, 07:05 PM
only triple A collection IMO.
Jean
03-17-2012, 06:59 AM
Last chance to vote! The poll is closing!
mae
03-18-2012, 03:16 PM
The poll has closed. This round Skeleton Crew has earned an OAG (overall average grade) of 2.500000000 or 83.33% in addition to its FAS (final average score), making it 6.692307692 or 83.65%.

Grade breakdown:
Entertainment Quality of the Stories: A - 2.700000000 (90.00%)
Memorability of the Stories: B - 2.400000000 (80.00%)
Effectiveness of Plot Delivery in the Stories: B - 2.400000000 (80.00%)