5: I loved it
4: It was good
3: Average
2: Only so-so
1: I didn't like it
Never Read
Bracket #7: Nightmares & Dreamscapes (1993)
Nightmares & Dreamscapes, 1993
Please vote for Nightmares & Dreamscapes 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.
There are some really good stories in here, but my favorite part is King's intro, "Myth, Belief, Faith, and Ripley's Believe It or Not!" Classic.
Yeah, I remember liking that intro too. As for the book, it gets a 4 from me. There were alot of really good ones. But there were quite a few duds too, more than the other collections IMO.
Sloth Love Chunk
It's a great way to round up straggler stories for sure but I don't really love many of the stories either. I'd give it a four though.
I know many people like this one, but I have always felt it was his weakest anthology. I still feel that way. Skeleton Crew is one of his masterpieces, but Nightmares & Dreamscapes badly disappointed me at a time when I was greatly looking forward to the next King novel (even more than I do now as the latest King book was a MAJOR part of my Christmas morning and the rest of Christmas Vacation). It was ok, but it just didn't live up to what I was used to. 3.
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.
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Popsy, Crouch End and Suffer the Little Children are bears' favorites... a full 4, then
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 gave it a 4 as well. I'm a big fan of King's short stories.
"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
Quoted for truth, although it only ranked a "2" for me. I kept reading the stories hoping to get to a good one. There might have been a couple peppered in there but I recall my overall reaction as being extremely disappointed.Originally Posted by Sam
has either of you already read Just After Sunset? N&D is a feast comparing to that one...Quoted for truth, although it only ranked a "2" for me. I kept reading the stories hoping to get to a good one. There might have been a couple peppered in there but I recall my overall reaction as being extremely disappointed.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Word, Jean.
JAS is the only King book I haven't gotten to yet (with the exception of the internet stories and some of the other esoteric stuff). I did read the introduction and King said after so many years he had gotten his short story muse back, so I was cautiously optimisitc. We'll see.has either of you already read Just After Sunset? N&D is a feast comparing to that one...Quoted for truth, although it only ranked a "2" for me. I kept reading the stories hoping to get to a good one. There might have been a couple peppered in there but I recall my overall reaction as being extremely disappointed.
Some good(suffer, rainy season), some really bad (dedication, sneakers) i gave it higher ranking because I believe End of the whole Mess is one of King's best short stories. I think the adaptation is also one of the best.
Good thing he kept Reploids of there, that was a stinker as well.
Lots of mediocre though.
Not to derail the discussion, but Just After Sunset contains one of the best King novellas in The Gingerbread Girl.
I loved the Gingerbread Girl. Unfortunately, I can't rate any collection of short stories in one book based on how much I loved one of the stories in it, but how much I liked the whole thing overall.
I gave this one a 3.
A true firewasp ninja would never wear such a ridiculous sweater.
There's logic in nonsense.
Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.
Suffer the little children is possibly my favorite short story.
Sloth Love Chunk
The poll has closed. Nightmares & Dreamscapes has earned a FAS (final average score) of 3.746031746 or 74.92%, placing 2nd (runner-up) in this bracket. It will be moving on to Round 2. In 2009, Nightmares & Dreamscapes placed 3rd with a FAS of 3.970588235, so it lost 0.224556489 (-5.66%) this time.
Hmmm, weak bracket if a book can lose almost 6% and yet place higher than last year.
Indeed, very strange. Every book in this bracket lost some points.
Maybe we've all become tougher critics.
"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
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