Personally, I'd switch that up a bit. It was slow for the first 500-600 pages and the last 100-150 pages were good.Originally Posted by ZGDK
Not worth the time it took to read it.
Personally, I'd switch that up a bit. It was slow for the first 500-600 pages and the last 100-150 pages were good.
Speak for yourselves, I saw no slowness anywhere.Personally, I'd switch that up a bit. It was slow for the first 500-600 pages and the last 100-150 pages were good.
Damnit, now I want to read Insomnia to see what all the fuss is about, but I really don't want to start any other book until I finish the Harry Potter series and am caught up with A Song of Ice and Fire!
You should read it feve! But definitely finish HP first!
With Insomnia the beginning is slow, but not boring. It's all characters development and getting us acquanted with Ralph and his friends. Once he starts seeing the auras and the Bald Doctors it gets interesting. A very thought provoking book too.
Did you finish IT feev?
No, not yet. I'm trying to advance evenly between IT, Chamber of Secrets, A Clash of Kings, and the copious amounts of graphic novels that I have.
Well, it certainly looks like your reading slump is over. Good for you man.
But...so far you wouldn't consider IT to be on your King Worst List...would you, feve?
wait, which was one of his best psychological novels? DC or GG? :confusedturtle:
finally, someone agrees with me about her.weirdo.
oh, and Ves'Ka Gan? you are *so* very wrong about cell (and so many, many other things) but it's okay you're still my ka-sister.
let me know what you think of that would you matt? i thought about it but i'm not sure i can take her voice for that long. it is mare winningham right?
rose madder, razz?
No...however I really don't like how King unnecessarily drags out some parts to the point where it becomes tedious. He has to describe the scent in the air, and then the trees in the characters immediate surroundings, and then the ants that inhabit that tree, and the colony which the ants report to....getting the picture? It's like - okay dude, we get it.But...so far you wouldn't consider IT to be on your King Worst List...would you, feve?
But anyway, I'm only 260 pages in - I have a ways to go yet.
In the Stand, he describes all of the relatives of the king and queen ant as well as the prospects for the prince and princess ants. In the unabridged version, he also points out which shows the queen ant likes to Tivo on Tuesdays and Thursdays.No...however I really don't like how King unnecessarily drags out some parts to the point where it becomes tedious. He has to describe the scent in the air, and then the trees in the characters immediate surroundings, and then the ants that inhabit that tree, and the colony which the ants report to....getting the picture? It's like - okay dude, we get it.But...so far you wouldn't consider IT to be on your King Worst List...would you, feve?
But anyway, I'm only 260 pages in - I have a ways to go yet.
i can try, but no promise. it may be like dreamcatcher, and i'll be able to get into it this time.wait, which was one of his best psychological novels? DC or GG? :confusedturtle:
finally, someone agrees with me about her.weirdo.
oh, and Ves'Ka Gan? you are *so* very wrong about cell (and so many, many other things) but it's okay you're still my ka-sister.
let me know what you think of that would you matt? i thought about it but i'm not sure i can take her voice for that long. it is mare winningham right?
Gerald's Game was eh for me.
I generally HATE the overuse of "descriptive" narration.
Thus, I HATE Thoreau. SORRY!
That said, IT is T E D I O U S, IMHO. I'll be rereading in a month or so, so we'll see if my opinion improves.
"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
I generally HATE the overuse of "descriptive" narration.
Thus, I HATE Thoreau. SORRY!
That said, IT is T E D I O U S, IMHO. I'll be rereading in a month or so, so we'll see if my opinion improves.
wait, king wrote thoreau?
as for the ants, just wait until they start destroying the town. then you'll be glad for all that description. you'll see.
IT seriously bored the crap out of me. I don't think it can improve much with a reread.
"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 my take on the Stand, but IT worked for me. I read it when I was 13 or so, and then again last year at 25. I still enjoyed and probably appreciated more in certain aspects.
IT seriously bored the crap out of me. I don't think it can improve much with a reread.
I'm sentimental about it too. It wasn't my first King book, but I read it early on and still love it.Aw, I liked it - but it was my first King book so I'm sentimental about it
If the rest of the book is like this, it's going to take me a looooong time to get through it. I hope it doesn't become tedious to the point where I feel that I can't finish it.IT seriously bored the crap out of me. I don't think it can improve much with a reread.
Those ants get more interesting and cosmologically significant.If the rest of the book is like this, it's going to take me a looooong time to get through it. I hope it doesn't become tedious to the point where I feel that I can't finish it.IT seriously bored the crap out of me. I don't think it can improve much with a reread.
Do they start watching DirecTv isntead of Tivo?
Like I mentioned above - I still have a ways to go yet, but we'll see...
The prince ant does, because he's trying to get in bed with one of the neighboring colonial princesses. He's basically trying to impress her, but I don't want to give anything else away. The rest of the ants in the colony are content with Tivo and have recorded every episode of Seinfield in syndication, the irony being that the book becomes a book about nothing which contains ants that watch a show about nothing.
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