Strength of Plot -- Graded "A"
Strength of Plot -- Graded "B"
Strength of Plot -- Graded "C"
Character Development -- Graded "A"
Character Development -- Graded "B"
Character Development -- Graded "C"
Quality of the Story's Ending -- Graded "A"
Quality of the Story's Ending -- Graded "B"
Quality of the Story's Ending -- Graded "C"
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Grading: Pet Sematary
Pet Sematary
Doubleday, 1983
Round 2, Group III
Grading for this Book is Closed
Strength of Plot:
2.73015873 (Graded B+)
Character Development:
2.539682539 (Graded B+)
Quality of Ending:
2.587301587 (Graded B+)
Overall Average Grade:
2.619047618 (Graded B+)
Combined Round 1 & 2 scores:
7.00929152
Heng Dai
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Is there anything higher than A?
AAA!
AAA
what a difficult book to read
the first 3/4ths are subtle and can seem mundane but the last quarter is one of the most frightening things ive ever read
if the worlds gonna end then let's get it over with, i got shit to do
A, B, A
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
B for character development, Jean? Why?
I don't really remember any development...
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hm, I liked most of the characters, especially Louis and Jud. It's my favorite King book of all time so perhaps I'm slightly biased.
I liked the characters... but they didn't really impress me, not in their quality as characters, you see? It's what happened to them that mattered, not who they were; and in such books as It or The Stand, - or the DT, - it's either both, or (at least for bears) the characters themselves who make everything worthwhile.Originally Posted by pablo
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Triple-A.
Not a lot of books have scared me as much as Pet Sematary did.
I love it.
Solid A's. This book will always have a special place in my heart. This one is where it all started for me.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
AAB, The ending lost a point with me only because it was too predictable, however, thats what made it so horrible. You almost knew where it was going after Church. Certainly after Gage. You knew it was gonna go all the way, yet you had to watch Louis keep going down the path of self destruction. Painful
In retrospect, I agree with Jean on character development, I think I gave it an A, not because the characters where developed very well, but because they had a huge impact on me. Gage was truly horrifying. I thought the most well developed character was probably Judd.
The laundry lady, and Zelda also freaked me out.
A, C, A. There was just no character developement to me.
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
B, B, C. To be honest, I don't remember how it ended. That tells me something...
I do seem to remember not liking the ending so well, though.
Have you heard of people with short fuses? Well, I have no fuse at all, and there's a thousand could testify to it if I hadn't stilled their tongues for good.
You can't ignore my girth.
No, but was it needed? I think the book wasn't really about the characters - they were developed just as much as they were supposed to... I gave them a B, because I usually expect more of King as far as characters are concerned, but I would have given a C only if they were developed inadequately, and in my opinion it wasn't the case. They were adequate... just for a good sound B...
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's my opinion Jean.
I've never read it but fully plan on picking it up.
“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
Do so as soon as possible, Tiffany. It's an amazing novel.
I keep an eye out for it every time I go book shopping.
“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
A, B, A. - This is great vintage King. Timeless.
One of the first three King books I ever read - they hooked me on King.
AAA
"...that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." ~ Ray Bradbury
What were the other two?
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
Straight A's. Awesome book - it had me hooked from page 1.
"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
Me too. Straight A's.
abb, nothing to add, thats not been said.
The answer is within
all matter is energy, all energy is GOD
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