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mae
04-02-2014, 05:02 AM
Skeleton Crew, 1985
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Please vote for Skeleton Crew (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeleton_Crew) using the following scale:


5
4.5
4
3.5
3
2.5
2
1
0
Never read


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

webstar1000
04-02-2014, 05:20 AM
Only reason not a 5 (his best collection of all I think) is cause I am not a huge short story guy...

mae
04-02-2014, 05:26 AM
Five all the way. This has so many amazing stories, including some of my all-time top favorites. Note that the book is linked to its Wikipedia article in the first post so you can take a quick look at the table of contents if you don't recall offhand which stories exactly this collects.

Jean
04-02-2014, 05:33 AM
"The Mist" 4
"Here There Be Tygers" 5
"The Monkey" 3.5
"Cain Rose Up" 5
"Mrs. Todd's Shortcut" 2.5
"The Jaunt" 4
"The Wedding Gig" 1
"Paranoid: A Chant" 1
"The Raft" 4
"Word Processor of the Gods" 3
"The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands" 4
"Beachworld" 4
"The Reaper's Image" 4
"Nona" 4
"For Owen" 1
"Survivor Type" 4
"Uncle Otto's Truck" 2.5
"Morning Deliveries (Milkman #1) 5
"Big Wheels: A Tale of The Laundry Game (Milkman #2) 1
"Gramma" 4
"The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet" 5+++++++++
"The Reach" 3

Total 3.386

I'll give it 4, because it contains Flexible Bullet.

Tito_Villa
04-02-2014, 05:34 AM
5, i really enjoyed this!

frik
04-02-2014, 06:39 AM
Really like this collection. The Mist cannot be topped!

4

sk

Iwritecode
04-02-2014, 06:49 AM
I gave it a 3.

A few really good stories (The Mist, The Jaunt, The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet) mixed with a few really bad ones (Here There Be Tygers, Beachword, Milkman #1 and #2) with a handful of ok ones in-between.

Girlystevedave
04-02-2014, 07:44 AM
Only reason not a 5 (his best collection of all I think) is cause I am not a huge short story guy...

Me too.
I give it a 3.

divemaster
04-02-2014, 09:24 AM
This is my second favorite King short-story collection, behind Night Shift, which I gave a 4.5. Skeleton Crew had a number of "1-star" stories (unlike Night Shift, which had none). The good and excellent stories are extremely strong, which helps make up for the clunkers. All in all, works out to 4.

My breakdown is below (I don't do half-points in my personal rating system for stories, and my rating scale is 1 to 4):


The Mist 3
Here There Be Tygers 2
The Monkey 4
Cain Rose Up 1
Mrs. Todd's Shortcut 3
The Jaunt 4
The Wedding Gig 3
Paranoid: A Chant 2
The Raft 4
Word Processor of the Gods 4
The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands 3
Beachworld 1
The Reaper's Image 2
Nona 1
For Owen 1
Survivor Type 4
Uncle Otto's Truck 2
Morning Deliveries (Milkman #1) 1
Big Wheels: A Tale of The Laundry Game (Milkman #2) 1
Gramma 1
The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet 4
The Reach 2

Iwritecode
04-02-2014, 11:19 AM
This is my second favorite King short-story collection, behind Night Shift, which I gave a 4.5. Skeleton Crew had a number of "1-star" stories (unlike Night Shift, which had none). The good and excellent stories are extremely strong, which helps make up for the clunkers. All in all, works out to 4.

My breakdown is below (I don't do half-points in my personal rating system for stories, and my rating scale is 1 to 4):


The Mist 3
Here There Be Tygers 2
The Monkey 4
Cain Rose Up 1
Mrs. Todd's Shortcut 3
The Jaunt 4
The Wedding Gig 3
Paranoid: A Chant 2
The Raft 4
Word Processor of the Gods 4
The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands 3
Beachworld 1
The Reaper's Image 2
Nona 1
For Owen 1
Survivor Type 4
Uncle Otto's Truck 2
Morning Deliveries (Milkman #1) 1
Big Wheels: A Tale of The Laundry Game (Milkman #2) 1
Gramma 1
The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet 4
The Reach 2

Your numbers average out to a 2.4 :P

Jean
04-02-2014, 11:21 AM
yes, but it's on 1 to 4 scale, and pablo's is 0 to 5

divemaster
04-02-2014, 11:40 AM
Your numbers average out to a 2.4 :P

Yeah, but first of all I toss out the 1-stars. I'm rating the book on how much I enjoy it--basically, how strong is it with good-to-great stories. That average comes out to 3.1 on a 4-point scale, which I extrapolated to a 4 (on a 5-point scale). Or, "I liked it almost as much as Night Shift, which I gave a 4.5. so 4 looks like a good rating for me."

Iwritecode
04-02-2014, 01:27 PM
Your numbers average out to a 2.4 :P

Yeah, but first of all I toss out the 1-stars. I'm rating the book on how much I enjoy it--basically, how strong is it with good-to-great stories. That average comes out to 3.1 on a 4-point scale, which I extrapolated to a 4 (on a 5-point scale). Or, "I liked it almost as much as Night Shift, which I gave a 4.5. so 4 looks like a good rating for me."

Yea, I don’t really have a scientific method for voting either. Whatever number sounds right at the time is what I go with.

Just giving you some crap. ;)

stroppygoblin
04-02-2014, 03:01 PM
Mrs Todd's Shortcut and Survivor Type are 2 of my all time favourites. Love this book.

BROWNINGS CHILDE
04-04-2014, 12:59 PM
5. My favorite collection. I will give my breakdown on individual stories later.

mae
04-09-2014, 05:17 AM
The poll has closed. Skeleton Crew has earned a FAS (final average score) of 4.187500000 or 83.75%. It received a rating of 5/4 with 7 votes.