Different Seasons
Viking, 1982
Bracket #3
Voting for this Book is Closed
Final Average Score: 4.475
Bracket 3 Winner
Different Seasons will advance to Round 2
I loved it - 5
I liked it - 4
Average - 3
Only so-so - 2
I didn't like it - 1
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Different Seasons--Bracket 3 Winner!!
Different Seasons
Viking, 1982
Bracket #3
Voting for this Book is Closed
Final Average Score: 4.475
Bracket 3 Winner
Different Seasons will advance to Round 2
Heng Dai
A definite 5 for me. All the stories in here are awesome.
"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
wow. breathing method. now there's a story for you.
i really didn't care for apt pupil much though. all the others were awesome.
Indeed. One of my personal Top 10 of King's. I'd be crushed if this didn't at the very least move out Round 1.
This is his best collection imo. Every story hit the mark for me. I have yet to read one of his collections and not found a story I didn't like. Granted, this only had four stories, but each one was a good one.
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, absolutely.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, this was a pretty good one. Gave it a 4.
5. The Body is possibly my favourite King story.
I don't like Apt Pupil at all, but the other 3 stories are phenomenal.
Gave it a 5. The Body is also one of my favourite short stories and the most touching by far.
Loved "Shawshank Redemtion" as well as "The Body". I was least impressed with "The Breathing Method", though still considered it a worthwhile read. I felt like "Apt Pupil" was reminiscent of the "Bachman" style.
gave it a 4. hey they cant all be 5's
Solid five for me. I love this book.
It'll take a lot more than words and guns,
A whole lot more than riches and muscle.
The hands of the many must join as one.
And together we'll cross the river.
Puscifer, "The Humbling River"
Sure they canOriginally Posted by BROWNING'S CHILDE
Well, not all but I'm planning on giving out about a dozen if not more 5s.
A five if ever there was one. Unlike some others, I actually found Apt Pupil quite good. All four of the stories are very well-conceived and well-written. They stand alone well and work well as a whole. I can't really think of anything I don't like about this collection.
I don't dislike Apt Pupil from a critical point of view, I'm just don't enjoy reading stories about psychotic characters like Todd, because the unpredictablilty makes me too nervous to get into the story
5 from me on this one. The Body ranks within my top 3 King stories.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
Really? I'm in the "the crazier, the better" camp.I don't dislike Apt Pupil from a critical point of view, I'm just don't enjoy reading stories about psychotic characters like Todd, because the unpredictablilty makes me too nervous to get into the story
"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
It depends. Like, Black House for example I had no problem with. But Apt Pupil and a Lionel Shriver book called, We Need To Talk About Kevin - both made me feel really uncomfortable when I read them.
It's odd. If you saw most of the books on my shelves you probably wouldn't assume I felt that way at all
It's, you know, matter of taste, only backassward. I was sure there's nothing in literature I couldn't bravely stand until I read Blaze. I am very easy to touch, I cry over books like a girl (happens to bears all the time), but it's always some, you know, positive feeling... catharsis and all that... while I can read stories of sadism and perversion and molesting and psychotics without turning a hair... but Blaze hurt me on some deep level I didn't even know existed; to such extent that I'm afraid another such book could kill me.
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'm so glad you said that, Jean. I found Blaze very, very difficult too. I didn't properly finish it the first time, I had to go back and reread at a later date with a more "prepared" frame of mind
Blaze has been sitting on my shelf waiting to be read since it was released. I need to get to it soon, but I could tell from reading the first bit that it might be a tough one--and I am not someone who is easily affected by most any book.
Well, King did describe it in his intro as a "weepie". You had been duly warned.
5!! love it!
Human kind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's first law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one and only truth.
I loved this collection, it's a 5 for me. Probably my favorite of them all.
The kindness of close friends is like a warm blanket
Loved it! It was amongst my first King reads, in the sixth grade.
“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
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