Roadwork
Signet, 1981
Bracket #3
Voting for this Book is Closed
Final Average Score: 3.2
Roadwork Will not advance to Round 2.
I loved it - 5
I liked it - 4
Average - 3
Only so-so - 2
I didn't like it - 1
Never Read
Roadwork--Voting Closed
Roadwork
Signet, 1981
Bracket #3
Voting for this Book is Closed
Final Average Score: 3.2
Roadwork Will not advance to Round 2.
Heng Dai
you know i just can't decide about this one. i think i shall cheat and reread it before i vote. i've read it so many times and each time i feel a different way about it. right now i don't care for it at all (after my last reread). i don't know why. i just didn't feel anything. but then i was totally wrung out after rereading the long walk and the running man straight thru so that might have something to do with it.
maybe i'll hold off on voting and see if i change my mind cause if i vote now it's getting a 2.
Quick, you have a week!
I gave it a 4. I really liked it.
"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
My 2nd favorite Bachman Book. It was a simple story, yet had a "dark" complexity to it.
I gave it a 4.
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I have tried to read this story three times now and each time something intervenes, and I don't finish it. Still haven't.
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
Loved it! Loved it!!!
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just a 2. Was never fond of this one - though I've read it a few times.
I gave it a 2. I've never been able to finish it, it just didn't grab me.
I do have to reread it for Tower Connections, but it seems like a chore.
A 3 for me : just average.
3 ON THIS ONE. LIKED THE IDEA. THOUGHT IT COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER AS A SHORT STORY INSTEAD OF A NOVELLA.
Meh. Parts of it are ok because it reads like King, but overall it didn't do much for me. I gave it a 2.
This is one that I haven't actually read. I started it once, but got distracted and read something else. Just didn't grip me at the time. I am positive that I will read it one day, but Duma Key is taking precedence right now.
well i can definitively say i am only so-so about roadwork. sorry guys.
Don't apologize. You're entitled to your opinion.
"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
Gave it a two. The weakest of the first four Bachman Books. Even King himself admitted as much.
which only proves to me - another time - that King is a much better (beyond compare, actually) writer than critic...
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is very true, Jean. I think any creative person really is their own worst critic. It's natural.
Originally Posted by pablo
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 have this one an "average" vote. I've read it several times and each of them has only solidified my opinion.
The kindness of close friends is like a warm blanket
I'm the only 1 so far.I could've gone with a 2 for the sake of kindness but I just didn't like it.
“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
bumpity-bump
I would rank it 3rd from the top (in Bachman Books) Below Rage and Longwalk, yet above the Running Man, Thinner and The Regulators. I am almost done with Blaze. (about 40 pages) and it looks like Roadwork might then fall another slot.
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