Yeah, i just recentley read Dreamcatcher and wasn't very enamoured with it. The military stuff was boring...and there was so much of it, plus, I didn't connect with the characters like I usually do with SK. But The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon...that story is awesome!!!
I'm a "shoot em up kill em all" excitement kind of guy and like some of kings books that are like that. Cell comes to mind because there wasn't much substance, sure--but I kind of liked that. <shrug>
But that doesn't mean King can't write what some would all a "slow" book well. Look at The Stand. That thing grinds for hundreds of pages without any significant action going on and you are still riveted to the pages.
I think King can write "boring" and that is different for all of us. Dreamcatcher was sure in that category for me.
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Good points Matt. The Stand was long and grinding yet I loved every moment. Dreamcatcher is my next book, after I finally finish Catch-22.Originally Posted by Matt
I think the worst out of the ones I've read so far would have to be Hearts in Atlantis and Dreamcatcher (although it was ten times better than the atrocious movie they made for it!)
ARGH, Dreamcatcher - I just did not like that one at all. I'm rereading all my King now, however, so we'll see if that opinion changes. I doubt it though.
"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 wasnt crazy about Geralds Game....maybe I should try it again.
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I'm really not liking Dolores Claiborne.
Yes, why?! It was a great story *shakes Feev*...*gently*
Uhhh...why?
yes, why???!!!
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 is great
Well, I'm not liking it so far. The characters don't interest me, the plot bores me, and the description of the enviroment in which the story is taking place thus far makes me feel...meh. I'll give my complete impressions once I finish the book.yes, why???!!!
Feverish don't feel you have to explain yourself to these folk..they're not worthy of you taking the time and effort to do so.
"It's his eyes, Roland thought. They were wide and terrible, the eyes of a dragon in human form" - Roland seeing the Crimson King for the first time.
"When the King comes and the Tower falls, sai, all such pretty things as yours will be broken. Then there will be darkness and nothing but the howl of Discordia and the cries of the can toi" - From Song of Susannah
I think Dolores Claiborne was written in a deliberate slow pace to reflect the long suffering DC suffered and how she continud to march on her 1,000 mile journey. It's difficult to have a reader understand something as painful and lifelong as that which she suffered by simply saying:
Little would be conveyed by that.She worked long and hard all her life.
I thought The Stand was like a 7 course meal. Well paced but slow enough to enjoy every course. The Unedited version was like a 9 course meal at The French Laundry.
Damn Randall and his hunger inducing posts!!!!111
Don't make me come over there, young man!
how could you say that TGTLTG was good i thought that it was boring the first half and stupid the second halfYeah, i just recentley read Dreamcatcher and wasn't very enamoured with it. The military stuff was boring...and there was so much of it, plus, I didn't connect with the characters like I usually do with SK. But The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon...that story is awesome!!!
Please do come over girly!
"It's his eyes, Roland thought. They were wide and terrible, the eyes of a dragon in human form" - Roland seeing the Crimson King for the first time.
"When the King comes and the Tower falls, sai, all such pretty things as yours will be broken. Then there will be darkness and nothing but the howl of Discordia and the cries of the can toi" - From Song of Susannah
FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
Actually fighting was the least on my mind...
"It's his eyes, Roland thought. They were wide and terrible, the eyes of a dragon in human form" - Roland seeing the Crimson King for the first time.
"When the King comes and the Tower falls, sai, all such pretty things as yours will be broken. Then there will be darkness and nothing but the howl of Discordia and the cries of the can toi" - From Song of Susannah
Ummm...because she has a different opinion?how could you say that TGTLTG was good i thought that it was boring the first half and stupid the second half
How boring life would be if we all liked the same thing.
And CK's a lover, not a fighter.
"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
Fuckin-A, and anyone who says different I will have to tear their heads off slowly.And CK's a lover, not a fighter.
"It's his eyes, Roland thought. They were wide and terrible, the eyes of a dragon in human form" - Roland seeing the Crimson King for the first time.
"When the King comes and the Tower falls, sai, all such pretty things as yours will be broken. Then there will be darkness and nothing but the howl of Discordia and the cries of the can toi" - From Song of Susannah
That's why I love ya, baby.
"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
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