5: I loved it
4: It was good
3: Average
2: Only so-so
1: I didn't like it
Never Read
Bracket #5: Skeleton Crew (1985)
Skeleton Crew, 1985
Please vote for Skeleton Crew using the following scale:
5: I loved it
4: It was good
3: Average
2: Only so-so
1: I didn't like it
If you haven't read this book yet, please vote Never Read. Feel free to discuss your votes in this thread.
One of my favorite collections. "Nona", "Survivor Type", "The Raft", "The Jaunt", "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet", and of course "The Mist"... I can just go on. Gems all!
Yup a fantastic collection ... 5!!!
Another 5 here! Loved it!
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
4
The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet alone would have been 5+
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wavered between 4 and 5, 4 and 5, and eventually went with 4. Some GREAT stories (but not all of them); to me King's second best short-story anthology.
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Last edited by divemaster; 03-15-2010 at 03:45 PM. Reason: Hey, I didn't write that last part!
This is my favorite collection of shorts from King. Gramma is my favorite from this one, but I also loved The Mist, The Raft, Survivor type, Ballad of the Flexible Bullet and several others.
The only stories that I just hated were the Milkman stories. uugh.
Sloth Love Chunk
I gave this one a 4. Some hits, and one or two misses.
Margaret Emmie Mackey Catoe, you are, have been, and always will be my soulmate, and I love you.
Con todo mi corazon, por todo de mis dias. And I always will, in this life and into the next.
August 2, 1947 - September 24, 2010
This is basically my favorite short story collection of his, so I had to give it a 5.
The poll has closed. Skeleton Crew has earned a FAS (final average score) of 4.166666667 or 83.33%, placing 4th in this bracket. It will not be moving on to Round 2. In 2009, Skeleton Crew placed 5th (last) with a FAS of 4.000000000, so it gained 0.166666667 (+4.17%) this time.
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