'Salem's Lot
Doubleday, 1975
Bracket #1
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Final Average Score:
4.292307692
Bracket Runner-Up: Advancing to Round 2
I loved it - 5
It was good - 4
Average - 3
Only so-so - 2
I didnt like it - 1
Never Read
'Salem's Lot--Bracket 1 Runner-Up!
'Salem's Lot
Doubleday, 1975
Bracket #1
Voting for this Book is Closed
Final Average Score:
4.292307692
Bracket Runner-Up: Advancing to Round 2
Heng Dai
I just gave this one an average. I didn't enjoy it as much when I reread it, as I did first time around.
Not actually one of my favorites, to be honest. Don't get me wrong, it's a great novel, a classic, and scary as hell. Maybe I need to re-read it.
My favorite all-time. Have read it annually since 1976.
As your nickname would suggestOriginally Posted by Ben Mears
I loved it. The large "cast", all of whom seem like real people, the story itself, just one of the greats.
John
loved it, loved it, loved it. can i vote on it more than once?
I gave it a 4. I thought it was pretty good overall, but not the top of my list.
"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
This is definitely a 5 for me - best book in this section!
A "5" from me, too, it's a classic. Very well written, perfectly composed, genuinely scary, and with one of my favorite characters ever.
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 guess i'm the only one that voted "never read it" ...
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.
Start reading, Hannah!
I'm going to have to! I haven't read "Rage" either.
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.
Not only the best King story I've read but the best vampire story I've read...period.
I guess we know how you voted!
I gave it a four...it's a very enjoyable book, and I too think that it's one of the better vampire books written, but to me it's just not "astoundingly awesomely ridiculously cool."
Elodin: "Tombs is for feckless twits who can't chew their own food. My boy's a Re'lar! He has the feck of twenty men!"
Kvothe: “Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.”
Simmon: ”It’s just ointment in case you get burned...but if you mix it with piss, it turns into candy.” Sim’s expression was deadpan. “Delicious candy.”
I feel pretty much the same as Cozener about vampire stories. It may not be King's best to me but it was one of the first ones I read and I was totally hooked by it, from beginning to end, so definitely a 5 for me.
i guess i'm the only one that voted "never read it" ...
you should do it before anything else you're planning!
(while, unlike people who posted above, bears are normally bored by vampire stories!)
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This was the first King book I ever read. Now just look at me!
Dragline : Nothin'. A handful of nothin'. You stupid mullet head. He beat you with nothin'. Just like today when he kept comin' back at me - with nothin'.
Luke : Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
wiz i'm not gonna say a word.
have you guys really looked at all the books in comparison to each other yet? take a look at this book side by side with the others. it's fucking fascinating! really!
and hannah - read this book! i'll send it to you myself if i have to. . .
I gave this one a 4. I really enjoyed it, but there were quite a few others that I enjoyed more.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
I don't even know who you are anymore.i guess i'm the only one that voted "never read it" ...
this is another one of my all time favorites. I couldn't put this book down. I read it for the first time when I was 15 or 16 but had a fresh new outlook when I read it after Wolves of the Calla. so good!
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Lalalalaaaa, lalalalaaa
sugarpop <3
My first King book. I don't think I had pubes when I read it for the first time
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. - Edgar Allan Poe
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity. - H.P. Lovecraft
Oh, you won't have to do that. I am positive that we have at least four copies of this book in the house. I know that I've tried to get her to read it before and she pretty much just refuses. I think Wolves of the Calla left a bad taste in her mouth.
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