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Thread: Bracket #7: Rose Madder (1995)

  1. 04-09-2014 05:57 AM #1
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    Default Bracket #7: Rose Madder (1995)

    Rose Madder, 1995

    Please vote for Rose Madder using the following scale:

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  2. 04-09-2014 06:19 AM #2
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    I enjoyed this one. I think SK did a great job at creating one of the most despicable characters when he wrote Norman. [shudders]
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  3. 04-09-2014 07:06 AM #3
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    One of my favorites too that along with Insomnia (back to back) gets dumped on. Loved it!
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  4. 04-09-2014 07:08 AM #4
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    One of my favorites - especially the first section: 5!

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  5. 04-09-2014 07:32 AM #5
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    Very good story; great antagonist. I'm due for a re-read and looking forward to it. Solid 4.
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  6. 04-09-2014 09:00 AM #6
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    This is the only SK book I *really* found hard going the first time through. I had such bad memories of it I left it 10 years before a re-read. Must have been a bad phase in my life as subsequent readings changed my mind completely.
    "A real limited edition, far from being an expensive autograph stapled to a novel, is a treasure. And like all treasures do, it transforms the responsible owner into a caretaker, and being a caretaker of something as fragile and easily destroyed as ideas and images is not a bad thing but a good one...and so is the re-evaluation of what books are and what they do that necessarily follows." - Stephen King
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    3.5

    Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
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  8. 04-10-2014 07:57 PM #8
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    3.5. A good read, but not one that I would have a burning desire to re-read.
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  9. 04-12-2014 09:03 AM #9
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    Quote Originally Posted by Andrew Campbell View Post
    3.5. A good read, but not one that I would have a burning desire to re-read.
    I'm actually thinking about re-reading it and re-reading is not something I normally do, since there's just so much to read the first time.

    Also, can we get a few more fives up in this bitch, Rose Madder is always so unfairly lumped toward the bottom.
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  10. 04-12-2014 10:50 AM #10
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    ...or fairly lumped toward the bottom, he who gave DTIV a ZERO!!!
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    Hated it. King went through a period where women suffered (almost as a King apology to someone-Tabitha perhaps) but persevered. This was a weak one.
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  12. 04-16-2014 06:10 AM #12
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    The poll has closed. Rose Madder has earned a FAS (final average score) of 3.550000000 or 71.00%. It received a rating of 4/3 with 5 votes.
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