liseys story and duma key, did'nt make it more than halfway through either, every other boo by king i have read at least twice, some many many more times
liseys story and duma key, did'nt make it more than halfway through either, every other boo by king i have read at least twice, some many many more times
Bag of Bones
Hearts in Atlantis
Agreed!
lextune and blaine: can you please post here in Duma Key thread and explain why you don't like it?
(the three of us agree on Lisey's Story, though. It's outstandingly boring.)
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The Dark Half
HATED it! Mostly because of the ending...
I'd love it probably if it was by another writer but with Stephen King I want perfection.
Lisey's story. Thank God I only checked that out from the library and didn't pay actual money for it.
But Duma Key ... wow. I loved that one. Checked that one out and then bought it 'cause it was so good.
I would say Lisey's Story would be on the short list. The "slow" part at the beginning, aka character development, was too drawn out and annoying. I though he laid it on awfully thick with the cutesy crap her and the husband said to each other, etc. I nearly didn't make it through because I kept thinking, enough with the @#%& baby talk and tell a story already.
Also, I literally threw the book across the room in disgust when I reached what I callSpoiler:
I did finish the book, but don't see myself rereading it. Ever.
Lisey's Story.
That's it, I've read a lot of SK but this one in particular didn't fits in my head. My sis gave it to me, read like twenty pages, then stopped and tossed it away. Sorry, Steve, bad bad intro.
Insomnia at first seemed awfully boring, but I got through all of it, and now that I've finished DT, I realize that it was a very important story, say true.
Ta.
I agree on Insomnia. Very slow start, which for some reason didn't bother me on this one. I first read it in high school and was somehow totally sucked in to the character development of Ralph. It makes my top 5 for sure.
i loved liseys story **puts on big hat and waits for shouting to start**
for me i love nearly all of Sk books, and esp seem to love the ones that everyone else seems to hate.
liseys story
insomnia
tommyknockers etc etc etc
for me the most not liked book (if that is a phrase? as i dont think there is a worse one) would be geralds game as i really did not like the woman so could feel sympathy towards her
king's worst novel
Y'all must be crazy to be Dark Tower fans and hate EotD. It has Flagg as a main character!!!
king's worst novel
I haven't seen this one posted but I think "Needful Things" blows. I'm glad Castle Rock is over
I hesitate to post to this thread, because I'm far from having read even a majority of King's books, so any response I make here is based on limited reading.
Nevertheless.
A writer as enduring as King has almost surely written something very good. Someone said everyone has a novel in them; all I have read are no exception, and usually it's ONE that sticks out. Gunslinger (and, OK, DT by extension) may be that book for King, or The Stand. And Fitzgerald had Gatsby, Hemingway The Sun Also Rises.
But if they keep on writing after the fame is in the bag, they're basically writing for a payday- they know it and to some extent their readership knows. King passed that point somewhere. He could submit his grocery list for publication now, and it would probably hit the NYT bestsellers. I've put down a few of his books partway in because they struck me as "grocery list" books. Regulators comes to mind.....so I'll use it here. What's worst of his oeuvre? I can't say.
I have read them all. And Regulators is my worst.
Actually I must edit this to say that I have not read Lisey's story, and from what I read about it, my "King of the worst" may be usurped.
Sloth Love Chunk
I realize that many did not like Lisey's Story, but I have to say that I do NOT understand why. I thought Lisey's Story was a very good read, and I hope you enjoy it dude.
Dreamcatcher and The Tommyknockers are his only two that I have never finished.
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I have Lisey's Story on my shelf, and have just been waiting for an opportunity to read it. I just finished LotR a week or so ago, and am rereading It right now. But, I think that I will pick it up after that.
Sloth Love Chunk
i guess i need to read lisey's story cause i have great patience in Sai King ....but as much as i hate to admit it Talisman was really hard to get into ...mor then any King novel...i mean after shit gets going ....the book is killer ....i love struab too so it just worked for me .....i mean black house worked for me more but .....you know they leaned over to DT on purpose.....
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Lisey's story is the most recent one that I hated. It took me almost 6 months of stopping and starting to finally finish it. I hated all the gibberish they spoke. The odd thing is that I can read the short story/excerpt "Lisey and the Madman" and I enjoy it just fine. The novel was just overly long and overly sentimental.
Others that I don't enjoy would include The Tommyknockers and Eyes of the Dragon.
Insomnia took a while to get going, but I was never really bored, it just wasn't getting anywhere until the end. Bag of Bones on the other hand was boring and never seemed to get anywhere to me. It was enjoyable enough to read, but I just wish I knew going into it that it wasn't going to get anywhere or be thoroughly satisfying.
Gerald's game was also a bit boring, but I can't say that I hated it. Same with Rose Madder.
And this may be sacrilege, but I really dislike the flashback parts of Dark Tower IV (which are obviously most of it). I read it the first time fine, but every time I re-read the book, I cannot trudge through it. There's something really tedious about it the 2nd time on. I just skip through the book now and read the present day sections and then move on to Book V. Of course now I can re-read the comic instead.
Hear, hear. Bears disagree only on two points:Originally Posted by wahlers
1. "Lisey and the Madman" part was absurd; it chould have been over as soon it started, and would have been over if she hadn't quite artificially prolonged it. The only thing bears marginally enjoyed was the Amanda part.
2. I am not sure it is sentimental. To me, it lacks true sentiment. Verbosity and a certain maudlinness and repetitiveness and getting stuck with every detail for what seems like forever is not enough to produce sentiment. Bears are overly sentimental themselves, and they were not touched a single time while reading that barren, hopelessly overdrawn text. (well, maybe by Amanda a couple of times, few and far between; otherwise, no)
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Well... not so good novels for me are: Lisey's Story, Gerald's Game, Dolores Claiborne.
“The devil's voice is sweet to hear.”
-SK.
Gerald's Game, Dolores Claiborne.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
omg Cell is not anywhere on this page!! I'm putting it here. *bleh* on that book.
Lisey's Story I could deal with once I got past the bad writing... (i know that's supposed to be the point but i actually kinda liked the story)... I didn't like it at all when I started reading it... but it got better for me. I think a lot should have been cut out and it should have been a novella.. that would have helped a lot.
but... Cell!!!
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.
bears rather liked Cell... especially from the middle onward, till - and including - the very end
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
I agree with Jean... I liked Cell waaaay more than, for example, "Lisey". It has this kind of "growing story".
“The devil's voice is sweet to hear.”
-SK.
maybe i just hate the cliche zombie/technophobe theme
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.
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