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Yeah, that's weird. Looks like a few of the threads linked from List-of-official-discussion-threads-for-SK-books have been moved out of Cara Laughs into the 2009-Constant-Reader-Awards archive.

True, but even when I don't like a movie, I can like the acting. Comes from having been an actor, I suppose.

(And I apologize for falling completely off-topic.)

That's okay. It's what I thought you'd say. Must be the one case where your loathing DID have something to do with how you felt about the novel. Sure is a well-made movie, opinions of the story...

I never thought of that. Maybe because I first read Desperation years before Cell. On the other hand, maybe you won't feel that way all the way through the book. But, anyway, I'm not totally...

I have not read Joyland yet, but I notice that Thinner, The Long Walk, and Rage all made his top 10.
:orely:Yeah, I wouldn't put either of those at very bottom. (Nor for that matter right at the...

Please check out: showthread.php?1780-Your-order-of-the-series.

To me, it's interesting that you place highly Pet Semetary and Thinner, and disheartening that you give Black House and Desperation...

plus some bears' tears...
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It will be a great thread! Ka, Gan, Christian God... and at least Jewish God will hopefully turn up, too. Greek tragedians common. Should be in Cara Laughs, I think, not Mid-World. Jean and I...

I'm glad you noticed. Not to be too patronizing, (I hope) just wanted to accurately represent the matter.

The question of mankind's free will is a pervasive theme throughout TDT. People who do not believe that we do have free will at all (of which there are actually many, theists and atheists) might not...

So Deus Ex Machina is okay so long as the supernatural is ultimately bad and not good for the protagonists? :unsure:

You mean something like ka? The literal manifestations of that built-up principle don't seem to have ruined that other story for you.

I feel like if you're reading Black House and you never read The Talisman, it would make you feel like the information you don't have might possibly be more essential than it actually is. But that's...

I can't object too much, because I know I was kind of asking for it. I realize it's an honest opinion; I respect that. It's just sort of funny that in general the ambiguity I like, you don't care...

Well, touché: from a structural standpoint, I suppose a little more mystery could have strengthened the plot. Obviously, I think you're being too harsh with that, but it's a point. And I usually...

Nothing wrong with subjective preference. :) Your "personal" hypothesis, idk about, but I do rather suspect the agenda behind NT was strongly a professional one. I mean, I might be wrong, but I...

Well, I actually do believe the style you're talking about is SK's forte and is shared by his very best works. For the subject of NT, though, I don't think that's really all you make it out to be. ...

Not bad. But I don't know if being similar to other works is automatically a plus. Unless it's an especially good example the type, IMO, that actually counts for less than being different counts...

Well, yes, it's enjoyable. But not nearly as good of a novel as Dolores Claiborne.

(Happy now, sir? Debate away!)

Sounds about right. And again, if my meaning was unclear, I think it is particularly likely that he'll share this opinion about It based on what he did list as his top few out of what he has read.
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