Night Shift, 1978
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Bracket #1: Night Shift (1978)
Night Shift, 1978
Please vote for Night Shift using the following scale:
- 5
- 4.5
- 4
- 3.5
- 3
- 2.5
- 2
- 1
- 0
- Never read
If you haven't read this book yet, please vote Never Read. Feel free to discuss your votes in this thread.
are we voting collections again? I don't know even how to begin to evaluate them. First, I don't remember which story is in which collection, next, the stories are so different, good, bad, brilliant and mediocre inside the same collection...
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes of course, we're voting on each King book. Here were are asking for your overall rating for the book as a whole.Originally Posted by Jean
That why each book is linked to its Wikipedia article in the poll.
yes... it's that I could never grasp the concept of a collection being a "book" the same way as a novel is
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This one is tough. In my mind I keep comparing this to other collections and not novels.
It shouldn't be compared to anything else. Just your own rating for the book. Think of it as if this was a new release and you had to write a book review for a magazine. How many stars would that review be?
ok...
Jerusalem's Lot 5
Graveyard Shift 2.5
Night Surf 5
I Am the Doorway 4.5
The Mangler 4.5
The Boogeyman 5
Gray Matter 3
Battleground 2
Trucks 3
Sometimes They Come Back 5
Strawberry Spring 4
The Ledge 3.5
The Lawnmower Man 5
Quitters, Inc. 4
I Know What You Need 3.5
Children of the Corn 5
The Last Rung on the Ladder 2
The Man Who Loved Flowers 2
One for the Road 3.5
The Woman in the Room 1
The average is around 3.5, plus half a grade just for containing some great stories
4
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ouch...
Yes, sorry.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is one of the first King books I read. I would have been in 4th or 5th grade. I remember very little. I know that I liked it enough (along with Pet Sematary) to inspire me to the become the King fanatic that I am today, but I dont remember half of the stories at all. I have been planning on reading it again for sometime, but alas, it is one of the very few that I don't have a copy of. Hopefully, I will get a copy soon.
Sloth Love Chunk
5.
It started it all for me.
This is easily my favorite of his short story collections.
Jean, glad to see you gave Night Surf a 5. That's a favorite of mine
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
it's one of my favorite King stories (they are not very many)
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"The Last Rung on the Ladder 2"
You have GOT to be kidding me. To me, this is easily one of the most perfect things ever written.
yes, I know. I could have made it 1, but I thought of you and my other friends who for some reason value it.
I hate it when King endeavors to write "Real Literature". He immediately starts sounding phony - at least to my ears; let alone that his writings immediately become trivial, predictable and just plain boring. It's when he's doing the "genre" stuff that he transcends - and then it's real, great literature.
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 know I've said this over and over elsewhere, but...Strawberry Spring.
This will forever be my favorite short story. I was maybe 11 or 12 when I first read it, and it floored me. Given, I have read so much in my life since then that has impacted me profoundly, but Strawberry Spring was the first thing I had ever read that made me realize you could do anything with fiction. It was the first story that didn't have a "happy ending". The first story that made me put a book down, and marvel at how the author had tricked me.
So, yeah. Strawberry Spring pretty much started my love affair with SK's books, and all books thereafter.
My favorite King collection. Perhaps because it was the first one I read? As Jean mentioned, there are hits and misses, but the hits have stuck with me for almost 30 years; whereas the stories I read in, say, Nightmares & Dreamscapes (which I read much more recently) I can hardly remember any of them. Anyway, my breakdown is below (I don't do half-points in my personal rating system for stories, and my rating scale is 1 to 4):
Jerusalem's Lot 3
Graveyard Shift 3
Night Surf 2
I Am the Doorway 2
The Mangler 4
The Boogeyman 4
Gray Matter 4
Battleground 4
Trucks 3
Sometimes They Come Back 2
Strawberry Spring 2
The Ledge 4
The Lawnmower Man 2
Quitters, Inc. 4
I Know What You Need 2
Children of the Corn 3
The Last Rung on the Ladder 4
The Man Who Loved Flowers 2
One for the Road 2
The Woman in the Room 2
I gave the collection a 4.5 in this poll. First of all, there were no "1-star" stories, which is unusual for any collection. And while the so-so stories are just that, the good and excellent stories are extremely strong, so I weighted upwards.
And I also consider The Last Rung on the Ladder a masterful work.
My favourite short story collection, 5 from me!
The poll has closed. Night Shift has earned a FAS (final average score) of 3.928571429 or 78.57%. It received a rating of 4/3.5 with 7 votes.
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