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  • Quality of the Writing: Graded "A"

    13 72.22%

  • Quality of the Writing: Graded "B"

    3 16.67%

  • Quality of the Writing: Graded "C"

    2 11.11%

  • Strength of Plot: Graded "A"

    11 61.11%

  • Strength of Plot: Graded "B"

    5 27.78%

  • Strength of Plot: Graded "C"

    2 11.11%

  • Character Development: Graded "A"

    12 66.67%

  • Character Development: Graded "B"

    4 22.22%

  • Character Development: Graded "C"

    2 11.11%

  • Never read

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  1. 05-21-2014 05:47 AM #1
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    Default Group 5: The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass (1997)

    The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass, 1997

    Please grade The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass in the following three areas using the grades A, B, or C:
    • Quality of the Writing
    • Strength of Plot
    • Character Development

    If you haven't read this book yet, please vote Never Read. Feel free to discuss your votes in this thread.

    Please base your vote only on this book's own merits, not how it fits into the series as a whole.

    IMPORTANT: Please make sure to select only one grade in each grading area. For complete (though slightly outdated) instructions, see this post.
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  2. 05-21-2014 05:49 AM #2
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    LOVED this book!
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  3. 05-21-2014 05:49 AM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan View Post
    LOVED this book!
    ME TOO!
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  4. 05-21-2014 05:52 AM #4
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  5. 05-21-2014 05:53 AM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by pablo View Post
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    You sir, have no heart. It get's A's JUST for the Riddle contest alone.
    "A real limited edition, far from being an expensive autograph stapled to a novel, is a treasure. And like all treasures do, it transforms the responsible owner into a caretaker, and being a caretaker of something as fragile and easily destroyed as ideas and images is not a bad thing but a good one...and so is the re-evaluation of what books are and what they do that necessarily follows." - Stephen King
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  6. 05-21-2014 05:56 AM #6
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    Me three. Even books I don't like dont usually get all C's from me. King rarely gets a C from me in character development in a book of this length. I also think the plot was rather engaging. And King would NEVER get a C for quality of writing from me. Even for books I hated like the Regulators. The quality of writing is still better than the average author.
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    True, King's writing is always on par, but when it's 700-800 pages of writing about nothing?
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    C'S??!!! BLASPHEMY!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by pablo View Post
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    I agree. I didn't start to enjoy The Dark Tower series until The Wastelands, and then this one followed it up. Just pulled me right out of the story, and it was never able to get back that momentum that had started for me. Also I really could care less about Roland's younger years. And Susan just really irritated me.
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  10. 05-21-2014 11:13 AM #10
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    Us rebels should stick together, Heather!
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  11. 05-21-2014 11:15 AM #11
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    Quote Originally Posted by pablo View Post
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    I was tempted to vote the same, but I overcame the temptation due to many good things that were there. I gave it BBB.

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    You sir, have no heart. It get's A's JUST for the Riddle contest alone.
    It would have gotten all As from me if it was alone.

    (hell, that part deserves more than As, it's some of my favorite pages in the whole fucking literature)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jean View Post
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    You sir, have no heart. It get's A's JUST for the Riddle contest alone.
    It would have gotten all As from me if it was alone.

    (hell, that part deserves more than As, it's some of my favorite pages in the whole fucking literature)
    The framing story was the only redeeming part of the book. Sadly about 95% of it was filled with a long boring flashback.
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    quite

    there were some good things there, too, but very few

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  14. 05-28-2014 06:24 AM #14
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    The poll has closed. This round The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass has earned an OAG (overall average grade) of 2.555555556 or 85.19% in addition to its FAS (final average score), making it 6.675555556 or 83.44%.

    Grade breakdown:
    Quality of the Writing: A - 2.611111111 (87.04%)
    Strength of Plot: A - 2.500000000 (83.33%)
    Character Development: A - 2.555555556 (85.19%)
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