5: I loved it
4: It was good
3: Average
2: Only so-so
1: I didn't like it
Never Read
This really was my second-favorite of the series after DT2. Why? It was just so fast-paced. The shootout, for one, was such an exciting part. Just amazingly written. And the entire Stephen King subplot rocked. I know it has its detractors, but I LOVED it.
so did bears
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When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
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It's weird that people love or hate this so passionately. I am definitely in the loved-it camp. This book was so exciting and full of all that delicious lore from Mia.
A 3 from me as well. There where parts I liked but most I just didn't. The whole Susannah/Mia thing i was just like "hell how many people are in this woman?"
A good read. Much better than W&G.
Normally I would agree with you on that Jean, but this wasn't unnecessary that later on you can look at and say "Ah, now I understand". It felt more like the unnecessary that you feel when someone you barely like comes up and rapes your ear with stories about their latest colonoscopy. Not quite that bad, but it certainly left me feeling very unhappy to have read the book. I've rarely felt that with King's works. I've read a few that I didn't like, and even two that I didn't finish, but I was always glad that I had at least tried it. With SoS though, I really was close to wishing I had never read it, skipped to DTVII, and just left it to my imagination.Originally Posted by Jean
bears think it's the unnecessary that makes the best part of King's novels...
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That's precisely what I meant by "unnecessary" - that colonoscopy simile is very apt. Now, everything depends only on how good the colonoscopy story is by itself; as to it being able or unable to add to the bigger story, it's such a subtle subject that works on so many levels that we can't always say what is or isn't another brick in the wall of the big building... like, all that "Maid of Constant Sorrow" snivel seems quite expendable, but it's the little things like that that make the big books for the bears... I realize, though, that when the unnecessary just doesn't seem to possess any value of its own (the colonoscopy tale may be gripping or boring), then they really must annoy.
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. I loved the book or I should say, the parts of the book that did not focus on Susannah/Mia. The Mia aspect was really tiring to me.
I still don't understand.
I liked it.
3
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Out of all the books in the series, I think this could benefit from a re-read the most. The first time I read it, I found it long and dull. Really, I just wanted to get the new york part over and done with and get back to the quest. I would've given it a 2, possibly a 3, but no higher.
Nearly finished it 2nd time around, and I am loving it! I'm not sure why. Maybe it's all the mythology and all the strands that have been building up throughout the series, suddenly we're given a tight focus on them. It could've been tighter, true, but I don't think it's as bad as a lot of people think. 5 from me!
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The poll has closed. The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah has earned a FAS (final average score) of 3.848837209 or 76.98%, placing 2nd (runner-up) in this bracket. It will be moving on to Round 2. In 2009, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah placed 3rd with a FAS of 3.981481481, so it lost 0.132644272 (-3.33%) this time.
I think that this post says quite a lot.
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