Thinner, 1984
Please vote for Thinner using the following scale:
5: I loved it
4: It was good
3: Average
2: Only so-so
1: I didn't like it
If you haven't read this book yet, please vote Never Read. Feel free to discuss your votes in this thread.
5: I loved it
4: It was good
3: Average
2: Only so-so
1: I didn't like it
Never Read
Bracket #4: Thinner (1984)
Thinner, 1984
Please vote for Thinner using the following scale:
5: I loved it
4: It was good
3: Average
2: Only so-so
1: I didn't like it
If you haven't read this book yet, please vote Never Read. Feel free to discuss your votes in this thread.
Voted so-so. Is in bears' bottom five.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I disagree, as I feel it was one of the better Bachman tales. In my top three of the Bachmans, but not in my top ten overall. I gave it a 4.
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
which is the third of that top three? (I presume the first is Long Walk)Originally Posted by Sam
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I gave it a 3. I liked it, but not as well as some of the others.
"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
A quick read. Average
This is my first, of likely very few, 1's.
Sloth Love Chunk
You are quite right Jean, The Long Walk is first. Rage is the third one. Blaze I found to be weak, and The Regulators just never really grabbed onto me for some reason. (Neither did Desperation oddly enough.)which is the third of that top three? (I presume the first is Long Walk)
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
Oh, I liked it. Solid 4 for me. Tapped into the whole revenge thing, which is satisfying. ("Oh, yeah? Tell her I've got a curse; it's called the curse of the white man from town!"). Plus, that ending was a wowzer.
I suspected it might be Rage... while Roadwork wouldn't even earn a honorary mention...You are quite right Jean, The Long Walk is first. Rage is the third one. Blaze I found to be weak, and The Regulators just never really grabbed onto me for some reason. (Neither did Desperation oddly enough.)which is the third of that top three? (I presume the first is Long Walk)
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, there's a shocker. I bet scenes from that book shoot through your mind every time you see a "no smoking" sign.Rage is actually my favorite of the Bachman books.
Sloth Love Chunk
probably the weakest bachman book to me, soooo
I give it a 4
if the worlds gonna end then let's get it over with, i got shit to do
I would give it a three. It bothers me that it's a Bachman novel since it's obviously just a sub-par King book. Apt Pupil, Cujo or Misery would have been much better choices for the pseudonym to take credit for. Mixing in supernatural stuff with Bachman just doesn't feel right to me. However I did like The Regulators, but wouldn't say it fits the Bachman name at all either.
phew, glad i am not alone on that then
Average in my opinion. Not great, but it didn't completely suck
Fast, fun read. I just got a first edition hard copy for Cephalopodmas, too. Woohoo!
It'll take a lot more than words and guns,
A whole lot more than riches and muscle.
The hands of the many must join as one.
And together we'll cross the river.
Puscifer, "The Humbling River"
Right on. It's an atmospheric, yet entertaining, adventure yarn, is what it is.do not click until you've read Thinner
The poll has closed. Thinner has earned a FAS (final average score) of 3.432835821 or 68.66%, placing 5th (last) in this bracket. It will not be moving on to Round 2. In 2009, Thinner placed 3rd with a FAS of 3.470588235, so it lost 0.037752414 (-1.09%) this time.
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