Wave 1A: The Waste Lands vs. The Long Walk
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This is the third and final round of our 2014 Constant Reader Awards. Please vote for the book you deem better. The winner receives 0.1 points added to its score previously acquired in the first two rounds.
If you haven't yet read either book or both of them, please vote Never read one or both titles. Feel free to discuss your votes in this thread.
The Waste Lands.
The Long Walk is better, as far as books go: it's the only perfect book King has written so far. But The Waste Lands, although at times sloppy, poorly balanced in terms of composition, and, as it has been rightfully noticed, lacking any real plot - is still more than a book. It's part of my life, part of my soul, in some more essential way than any good book is or should be.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hmmm....
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
oh god that's hard...
...as stand alone books, I have to go for The Long Walk
"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
As much as I enjoyed The Long Walk, I loved The Waste Lands--my second favorite of the Dark Tower novels.
The poll has closed. The winner with 58.82% of the vote was The Waste Lands. It receives 0.1 points in addition to its current FAS (Final Average Score), making it 7.580094467 or 85.17%.
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