Not the only one, or the only two. Every time I remember that Peter-Pan-like fairy dust, I can't help giggling.Originally Posted by R_of_G
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who didn't care for the film.
I loved it - 5
It was good - 4
Average - 3
Only so-so - 2
I didnt like it - 1
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Not the only one, or the only two. Every time I remember that Peter-Pan-like fairy dust, I can't help giggling.I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who didn't care for the film.
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That's too bad, but I guess that's why you'd rate it so low. With all my dislike for DT4 I only managed to rate it a 2, the lowest I'll go. I can't see how, if you'd've finished TGM, you couldn't have rated it higher.Sorry, I don't see why... I gave it a 1, I never even finished it.
I don't really see why reading the ending would in any way change the impression... it was a real torture to read, I wasn't interested in the characters in the least, and the whole thing bored me like reading (especially reading King) seldom does. I don't think I'll ever try again, unless I'm locked up with nothing else to read.
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 giggle as well, after making some kind of retching sound.
Jean, I can honestly say that I am saddened that you didn't enjoy it.My question would be did you read an original or a translation. I'm sure you read an original, but I'm hopping it was a translation.
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alas, I always read originals... I couldn't have formed an opinion if it was a translation...
I can hope, though, that tastes sometimes change as a person develops. I remember hating The Tommyknockers first time I read it, and I hardly made myself reread it last spring - and now it's one of my very favorites. So maybe in the future -
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 poll closes on 12/11/08.
I suppose my only question is, where's the cutoff point where you should vote 'Never Read...' as opposed to voting an actual number.
If you read.... half / quarter / chapter 1 / page 1 / ?
Personally, the ending was very strong. Like I wrote earlier, I actually cried at the end.
I would say that it's dependent on why it wasn't finished. For example, if you'd read a percentage of it and decided at that point that you were never going to be able to get into the story then I would think it's perfectly reasonable to score it accordingly. On the other hand, if you simply didn't finish it because you got interrupted and never got back to it that might warrant a "never read" because your intention is still to finish it.
Sounds right to me.
If you skipped one word, one period for whatever reason then you didn't read the book. Sorry!
And Jayson, surely you at least loved that the TGM film has one of your favorite actors in the lead role.
And Jayson, surely you at least loved that the TGM film has one of your favorite actors in the lead role.
My feelings about Hanks are in line with Eric Cartman's.
"Tom Hanks couldn't act his way out of a nutsack." - Eric Cartman
I have seen the movie many times but I have never read the book. I am planning to.
Roland would have understood.
There's still hope for your dream TDT cast.
Given our joint disapproval of a film version of DT, your proposed cast is as good as any other.
I am inclined to think the same, but only as far as a thorough analysis is concerned, not an estimate of an impression (which is as I understand the present vote). I would take both qualitative and quantitative aspects: if you got past the middle of a book, and then found out you couldn't make yourself go on, it means that you didn't like it, not that you didn't read it. It wouldn''t, however, entitle anyone to serious detailed criticism, which, I agree, would take reading all there was to read - though to state one's opinion, why not, by all means.
(for example, I am, and have been for more than a year now, five or ten pages away from finishing The Running Man, and I have to say I lost interest so totally that for all that year couldn't summon patience to take it back from the shelf and find out "how it all ended"; which does mean the book left me indifferent, and entitles me to say so.)
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Shawshank, actually.
As to the reason for voting "Never Read" as opposed to a score depending on how much you read and the reason for it....
That's all well and good for novels, but what about short fiction collections?
So far I've been voting "Never Read" on short fiction collections even if I have read some of their contents in their entirety--my reasoning being that I hadn't read THE VOLUME ITSELF in its entirety. What would be the criteria on that?
I read this in installments.
As each book was released, I would go back and re-read each of the preceding books.
Yes, this means I read the first book six times.
Maybe not King's best work of fiction, but in my top ten.
And I really appreciate his marketing strategy.
I found the book and the movie to be tear jerkers.
I've only read the whole version of the book and I enjoyed it thoroughly.
Pedant
Thank you!Pedant
EDIT: I'm now halfway through the book, but am not yet sure how I'm going to vote....
I gave this a 4. Really good book...solid characters...I still have my original copies of the series, and it holds up well on reread. I love how much of the symbolism is so accessible as well.
You know, I have to say that IMHO I thought it was a good read but maybe more importantly it was one of the very few SK books that actually was better in movie form than as a book. I know that may be considered as blasphemy by some but, I have read everything he has written and its just one mans opinion lol
I am really surprised at the number of 5's for The Green Mile. I really had expected there to be more of them. The number of people who never read it also surprised me. I thought that number would have remained in single digits.
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
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