Nightmares & Dreamscapes
Viking, 1993
Bracket #7
Voting for this Book is Closed
Final Average Score:
3.970588235
Nightmares & Dreamscapes will not advance to Round 2
I loved it - 5
It was good - 4
Average - 3
Only so-so - 2
I didnt like it - 1
Never Read
Nightmares & Dreamscapes--Voting Closed
Nightmares & Dreamscapes
Viking, 1993
Bracket #7
Voting for this Book is Closed
Final Average Score:
3.970588235
Nightmares & Dreamscapes will not advance to Round 2
Heng Dai
King is king of the short story, plain and simple!
I gave it a 5. I love King's short stories.
"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 thought this one was pretty good.
The kindness of close friends is like a warm blanket
I have always thought this was King's weakest collection. After readin Just After Sunset, my opinion is unchanged. Some of the stories were great, but some of them were just ok at best. This one gets a 3 from me.
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
I gave it a 3 for the simple fact that I read it, but nothing about it sticks out in my mind.
the story that got me was The 10 O'clock People...struck a cord with me at the time cuz i was trying to quit smoking as well...lol...didn't work after that...been trying to quit for a while though...but it goes to show you that it makes you think was that real or was that just smoke in your eyes???
Does whatever a spiderman does.
short stories get me everytime. a 5 for sure.
Same for me. It was remarkably unremarkable. I actually gave it a 2 though.Originally Posted by Girlystevedave
I gave it a 3 for the simple fact that I read it, but nothing about it sticks out in my mind.
3
Bears are not very fond of King's short stories. Loved Popsy and Crouch End, though.
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 probably read as many short story collections as I do novels. I feel King is one of the best short story writers alive...and quite possibly ever.
Hard to vote on this one - it's been years.
Gave it a 3 eventually.
4. Lot of good short stories, but no King collection of shorts will ever be a 5 to me.
A 4 for me. The only ones that I really loved were "The End of the Whole Mess" and "Suffer the Little Children."
The ratio of stories I liked to the ones I thought were okay isn't too high.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”-Mark Twain
Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me....Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
-Shel Silverstein
It's creepy how eerily prescient King was in predicting how smoking would be criminalized in so many areas of public life. Reading some of his older short stories from this collection, and Night Shift, make you wonder if he has a crystal ball.the story that got me was The 10 O'clock People...struck a cord with me at the time cuz i was trying to quit smoking as well...lol...didn't work after that...been trying to quit for a while though...but it goes to show you that it makes you think was that real or was that just smoke in your eyes???
It's creepy how eerily prescient King was in predicting how smoking would be criminalized in so many areas of public life. Reading some of his older short stories from this collection, and Night Shift, make you wonder if he has a crystal ball.the story that got me was The 10 O'clock People...struck a cord with me at the time cuz i was trying to quit smoking as well...lol...didn't work after that...been trying to quit for a while though...but it goes to show you that it makes you think was that real or was that just smoke in your eyes???
but now you know what happened to the grapefruit. that is to say the pink one.
I actually only read a few of these, so I probably should've voted "Never Read". It seems like I liked the ones I did read, though.
Have you heard of people with short fuses? Well, I have no fuse at all, and there's a thousand could testify to it if I hadn't stilled their tongues for good.
You can't ignore my girth.
5. You Know They Got A Hell Of A Band.
And the Sorry, Right Number screenplay. Excellent.
"I wish they'd just wipe out humanity and get it over with. It's the waiting I can't stand." -Fry"I know we can't all stay here forever, so I want to write my words on the face of today." -Blind Melon
I gave this a three. Some of these stories stuck with me, but most did not. Average.
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