Grading: Four Past Midnight

[Aaron]

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Four Past Midnight
Viking, 1990


Round 2, Group II

Grading for this Book is Closed

Entertainment Quality:
2.431372549 (Graded B)

Memorability:
2.294117647 (Graded B)

Plot Delivery:
2.274509804 (Graded B)

Overall Average Grade:
2.333333333 (Graded B)

Combined Round 1 & 2 scores:
6.19047619

[mae]

Straight As here! Early 90s King at his best, in my opinion. Quintessential tome.

[jayson]

B/A/B

Points taken off for The Sun Dog. Never cared for that one very much. The other three are excellent stories and if it were three past midnight, it'd get straight A's.

[Tiffany]

Never read it. I have it but I'm a terrible flyer. I'm scared that reading The Langoliers will make it even worse for me.

[alinda]

I voted all A's on this book too. Some of SK's best short stories IMO.

[Sam]

I gotta give it B's. Two good stories, two so-so stories. Kings worst effort for a collection in my opinion.

[Heather19]

Still going to have to vote never read on this one, as I've only read one story. But I have to say that Secret Window, Secret Garden is one of my favorite novellas.

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

Gave it all B's. Had it been only the Langoliers and SWSG, it would have gotten straight A's, however, if it had been only The Sun Dog and The Library Policeman, it would have gotten straight C's. So I had to go with the average.

[ManOfWesternesse]

All B's for me.
The Langoliers on it's own was a truly brilliant story and would have been straight A's.

[Jean]

All A's

[ksmithcats]

Oooh, I loved the Sun Dog. Scared the crap out of me. I'm a camera nut (have the latest new ones plus some very old ones) and just the thought of one being infected in that way, and compulsive that I am, I'd not be able to put it down, I'd just have to keep snapping away to see what happened next....:panic:

[Melike]

The Langoliers is especially my favorite. And I like its movie, too.

[Daghain]

Straight A's. I'm currently in the midst of a reread for this one, and I love it even more.

[Patrick]

I've read The Langoliers and Secret Window, Secret Garden, but not the other two stories. Therefore I marked this one "Never Read". :(

[jayson]

So off the record Patrick, did you like those two?

[mae]

Hm, this one seems not to be doing so well. Too bad, it's one of my favorites. I couldn't put it down.

[Brice]

So you're STILL holding it? :unsure:

[mae]

Heh. At the time.