Blaze
Scribner, 2007
Bracket #12
Voting for this Book is Closed
Final Average Score:
3.698113208
Blaze will not advance to Round 2
I loved it - 5
It was good - 4
Average - 3
Only so-so - 2
I didnt like it - 1
Never Read
Blaze--Voting Closed
Blaze
Scribner, 2007
Bracket #12
Voting for this Book is Closed
Final Average Score:
3.698113208
Blaze will not advance to Round 2
Heng Dai
5, although it broke my heart. I can't remember bawling like that over any other book (not even Roadwork). In the subway, too.
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've not yet read this one and am unlikely to do so prior to this poll closing, but I will get to it at some point.
Just a 2. I skimmed it alot. In part because I found it difficult to read (from the pov that I was uncomfortable with what was happening to the characters), but also because the narrative didn't grab me enough to compell me to read it regardless.
I am giving this book a 5 as well, I found it touching and compelling.
The answer is within
all matter is energy, all energy is GOD
Not having read this yet, I'll just say this is one of the best King covers. Too bad it wasn't nominated in the Best Trade Cover category.
4 I really enjoyed this one as well
I agree. This is one of my favorite covers.Originally Posted by pablo
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
I didn't enjoy this book. It was plodding and difficult to read. The character of Blaze never really seemed to live for me. Gave it a 2.
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
YES! I boo-hoo'd mightily during this book. Finished it with tears running down my face, closed the cover, and sat and cried some more. And to think he thought it wasn't any good. 5 all the way.
Another 3.
didn't like it. hated it in fact. gave it a 1 (sorry bear).
Haven't read it yet.
Four. I thought Blaze was a great sympathetic character.
"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
5, I felt such compassion for Blaze. This was one of those rare books where you root for the bad guy.
Geoff
I'm glad we got to see it. Would have been a pity if it had never been published.
I liked this book. It was easy to pick out the modifications put in to modernize the story, but that didn't take away from the story at all, IMHO. Maybe I'm just a more forgiving "dear reader" than some, but I had no problem sticking with this one all the way through.
I also have Duma Key going right now, but I think I need to seet aside more time to sink my teeth into it... I'm reading it in starts and fits and having a hard time with it.
Oh, BTW hey y'all... new to this forum but I have spent a good chunk of my life reading the brilliant (understatement) works of S.K... so I think I will be right at home!
I sincerely believe I owe a significant part of my literacy to him... thanks S.K.!
I really liked this book like most of the Richard Bachman's books.
I would love to have read a little more about Rufus Wyatt.
I have one question: How did Albert Sterling know about the cave?
Was he ToeJam all grown up?
I have not read this book yet. I will have to find a copy
4
I liked it and I typically really like the bachman books but this one just struck me as very mean spirited, rubbed my brain the wrong way, I guess thats the way it was supposed 2
The ending made me feel a similar sense of despair as when I first read Of Mice and Men
which makes sense since this story is a bit of a spin on that classic
if the worlds gonna end then let's get it over with, i got shit to do
If I had voted in time, it woulda been a 4. I thought the backstory was better than the kidnapping. Saw a bit of Sunlight Gardner in the Orphanage. Liked the berry picking scenes. ? was the berry picking along the same river as written in "The Body"? For some reason I remember thinking that.
Although from a Bachman book, I expected
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