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Aaron
11-17-2008, 06:32 PM
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Roadwork
Signet, 1981


Bracket #3

Voting for this Book is Closed

Final Average Score: 3.2

Roadwork Will not advance to Round 2.
The Lady of Shadows
11-17-2008, 07:17 PM
you know i just can't decide about this one. i think i shall cheat and reread it before i vote. i've read it so many times and each time i feel a different way about it. right now i don't care for it at all (after my last reread). i don't know why. i just didn't feel anything. but then i was totally wrung out after rereading the long walk and the running man straight thru so that might have something to do with it.

maybe i'll hold off on voting and see if i change my mind cause if i vote now it's getting a 2. :orely:
mae
11-17-2008, 07:41 PM
Quick, you have a week!
Daghain
11-17-2008, 08:13 PM
I gave it a 4. I really liked it.
NeedfulKings
11-17-2008, 08:19 PM
My 2nd favorite Bachman Book. It was a simple story, yet had a "dark" complexity to it.

I gave it a 4.
Sam
11-17-2008, 08:56 PM
I have tried to read this story three times now and each time something intervenes, and I don't finish it. Still haven't.
Jean
11-18-2008, 12:55 AM
Loved it! Loved it!!!
ManOfWesternesse
11-18-2008, 01:05 AM
Just a 2. Was never fond of this one - though I've read it a few times.
Darkthoughts
11-18-2008, 02:05 AM
I gave it a 2. I've never been able to finish it, it just didn't grab me.

I do have to reread it for Tower Connections, but it seems like a chore.
stone, rose, unfound door
11-18-2008, 02:07 AM
A 3 for me : just average.
BROWNINGS CHILDE
11-18-2008, 04:03 AM
3 ON THIS ONE. LIKED THE IDEA. THOUGHT IT COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER AS A SHORT STORY INSTEAD OF A NOVELLA.
jayson
11-18-2008, 06:40 AM
Meh. Parts of it are ok because it reads like King, but overall it didn't do much for me. I gave it a 2.
Aaron
11-18-2008, 07:47 AM
This is one that I haven't actually read. I started it once, but got distracted and read something else. Just didn't grip me at the time. I am positive that I will read it one day, but Duma Key is taking precedence right now.
The Lady of Shadows
11-18-2008, 11:58 AM
well i can definitively say i am only so-so about roadwork. sorry guys.
Daghain
11-18-2008, 07:23 PM
Don't apologize. You're entitled to your opinion. ;)
Randall Flagg
11-19-2008, 06:57 AM
Gave it a two. The weakest of the first four Bachman Books. Even King himself admitted as much.
Jean
11-19-2008, 07:03 AM
which only proves to me - another time - that King is a much better (beyond compare, actually) writer than critic...
mae
11-19-2008, 07:29 AM
That is very true, Jean. I think any creative person really is their own worst critic. It's natural.
Jean
11-19-2008, 07:33 AM
That is very true, Jean. I think any creative person really is their own worst critic. It's natural.
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Matt
11-19-2008, 12:10 PM
I have this one an "average" vote. I've read it several times and each of them has only solidified my opinion.
Tiffany
11-20-2008, 06:56 AM
I'm the only 1 so far. :unsure: I could've gone with a 2 for the sake of kindness but I just didn't like it.
Aaron
11-23-2008, 10:12 AM
bumpity-bump :dance:
BROWNINGS CHILDE
11-27-2008, 02:28 AM
I would rank it 3rd from the top (in Bachman Books) Below Rage and Longwalk, yet above the Running Man, Thinner and The Regulators. I am almost done with Blaze. (about 40 pages) and it looks like Roadwork might then fall another slot.