5: I loved it
4: It was good
3: Average
2: Only so-so
1: I didn't like it
Never Read
Bracket #7: Dolores Claiborne (1992)
Dolores Claiborne, 1992
Please vote for Dolores Claiborne 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.
This is one of the best of the 90s King books. The dialect really sucked me in and never let go, making this one of the easiest to read and enjoy of all of his books. I remember being told to not bother with it, I am glad I made up my own mind to read it anyways because as far as I can tell it's one of the great novels of the 90s by anyone.
It took me awhile to get into this one. I liked Gerald's Game better. I just didn't care about the characters in this book. I should probably give this one (and most of the books in this bracket for that matter) a reread. But for now, it gets a 3.
Sloth Love Chunk
This one is King at his finest. One of the most engrossing books, but even more so is the character of Dolores herself. King's writing on this was such that some thought he did not write it and wondered if he had enlisted the services of a ghost writer, or so I remember reading in several reviews. King created one of his most facinating and eternal characters in her and this deserves to be ranked among his best works.
5.
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
4 from bears
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe. However, this year at least, it gets just 4 from me.Originally Posted by Sam
I gave this one a 5. I absolutely LOVE this book, and thought they did a good job with the movie as well, which doesn't happen often enough for me.
"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
Very good story. Solid 4.
I remember being stumped by the what I now know to be deckle edge cut of the hardcover. At first I thought I got a bad book
The poll has closed. Dolores Claiborne has earned a FAS (final average score) of 3.666666667 or 73.33%, placing 3rd in this bracket. It will not be moving on to Round 2. In 2009, Dolores Claiborne placed 4th with a FAS of 3.703703704, so it lost 0.037037037 (-1.00%) this time.
Awww. Bummer.
"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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