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mae
03-27-2018, 01:05 PM
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass, 1997
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Please grade The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_IV:_Wizard_and_Glass) in the following three areas using the grades A, B, or C:


Quality of the Writing
Strength of Plot
Character Development


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

Please base your vote only on this book's own merits, not how it fits into the series as a whole.

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 For complete (though slightly outdated) instructions, see this post (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showpost.php?p=314275&postcount=1).

Jon
03-31-2018, 07:53 PM
I think this is when King's writing began to slump. I suspect he got bad advice to appeal to the masses. I feel that eventually he came out of this slump and even "bobbed to the surface" several times in this era.

Tommy
04-01-2018, 12:53 AM
CCB

Father Cody
04-01-2018, 01:03 AM
ACB

For a book to get me to read 800+ pages of a love story, I have to give the quality of writing an A. B for character development because...Cuthbert.

mae
04-03-2018, 02:09 PM
The poll has closed. This round The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass has earned an OAG (overall average grade) of 2.439393939 or 81.31% in addition to its FAS (final average score), making it 6.339393939 or 79.24%.

Grade breakdown:
Quality of the Writing: A - 2.500000000 (83.33%)
Strength of Plot: A - 2.272727273 (75.76%)
Character Development: A - 2.545454545 (84.85%)