Thinner
NAL, 1984
Bracket #4
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Final Average Score: 3.470588235
Thinner will not advance to Round 2
I loved it - 5
It was good - 4
Average - 3
Only so-so - 2
I didnt like it - 1
Never Read
Thinner--Voting Closed
Thinner
NAL, 1984
Bracket #4
Voting for this Book is Closed
Final Average Score: 3.470588235
Thinner will not advance to Round 2
Heng Dai
4 from me. Voting for this was kinda hard. It was a little better than a 3, I thought. Not by a whole lot but enough that I would have felt dishonest if I'd voted 3.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”-Mark Twain
Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me....Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
-Shel Silverstein
I really liked it, but it wasn't one of my all-time favorites. I gave it a 4 as well.
"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
3 for me. I remember liking it at the time, but I probably wouldnt read it again. Meh.
3. I didn't love it, I didn't hate it. It's probably my least favorite of the Bachman works, though I've yet to read Blaze.
Still haven't gotten around to it. Only acquired a copy recently, actually, a first edition!
4 on this book, I've been telling folks the message of this book for years!
Thought is reality.
The answer is within
all matter is energy, all energy is GOD
I give it a 4. I thought it was better than average, but just barely. The Long Walk was a much better story.
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.
August 2, 1947 - September 24, 2010
OOOOOPS!
Can I change my vote?
I was in such a hurry to give my opinion on it (didn't like it, and gave it a 1) that I forgot to point out that I haven't actually read it!
(Just seen the movie)....
Would it be possible to change my vote from a 1 to a "Never Read"...?
yeah, I'll change it now.
Thanks. Sorry about that....Originally Posted by Aaron
3.
Spoiler:
People love frozen yogurt. I don't know what to tell you.
i gave it a four. but i really have to go with bethany on the spoiler bit.
gave it a 1; if not for the "message", could have been at least a 2
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another 3.
Haven't read this one.
I don't care about the message, I thought it had some extremely good parts and I felt like puking whenSpoiler:. That was pure horror to me.
4... this book really actually scared me for some reason.
Human kind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's first law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one and only truth.
3. Decent, Quick read. Not certain, but I think this is the novel where King was outed as Richard Bachman. I think that this novel has more of the classic King feel to it, and should probably have his name on it. I think it has the least gut punch of the Bachman books with the possible exception of the Running Man. (And the absolute exclusion of The Regulators) It doesnt stand a chance against Rage, The Long Walk, Roadwork or even Blaze.
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