The Green Mile--Bracket 8 Winner!!

[mae]

Yup, 14 NRs is pretty bleak. It's such an amazing novel, people. Start reading NOW!

[John_and_Yoko]

Finally finished and so have voted--I gave it a four. Some parts of it I felt had greatness, others felt like he didn't quite have a handle on what he was writing about (I'm sorry, that's just how it felt to me). For awhile I was tugged between a 3 and a 4, then I thought of 4 (really 3.5, but rounded up), but now I think it is a 4 period.

[Brice]

If you skipped one word, one period for whatever reason then you didn't read the book. Sorry!

I am inclined to think the same, but only as far as a thorough analysis is concerned, not an estimate of an impression (which is as I understand the present vote). I would take both qualitative and quantitative aspects: if you got past the middle of a book, and then found out you couldn't make yourself go on, it means that you didn't like it, not that you didn't read it. It wouldn''t, however, entitle anyone to serious detailed criticism, which, I agree, would take reading all there was to read - though to state one's opinion, why not, by all means.

(for example, I am, and have been for more than a year now, five or ten pages away from finishing The Running Man, and I have to say I lost interest so totally that for all that year couldn't summon patience to take it back from the shelf and find out "how it all ended"; which does mean the book left me indifferent, and entitles me to say so.)

My thinking here is that you've either read a book or you haven't. If you've read parts of it then you haven't read THE book, regardless of what the reason may be. Now you may not have liked what you read and be positive if you read the rest you wouldn't like it, but if it's unfinished it's unread. I do see your point however.

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

I enjoyed the book immensly, Thought the movie was one of the best adaptations, enjoyed the Chap book medium. 5