Strength of Plot -- Graded "A"
Strength of Plot -- Graded "B"
Strength of Plot -- Graded "C"
Character Development -- Graded "A"
Character Development -- Graded "B"
Character Development -- Graded "C"
Quality of the Story's Ending -- Graded "A"
Quality of the Story's Ending -- Graded "B"
Quality of the Story's Ending -- Graded "C"
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Grading: The Waste Lands
The Waste Lands
Donald M. Grant, 1991
Round 2, Group VI
Voting for this Book is Closed
Strength of Plot:
2.8125 (Graded A)
Character Development:
2.760416667 (Graded A)
Quality of Ending:
2.39583333 (Graded B)
Overall Average Grade:
2.65625 (Graded B+)
Combined Round 1 & 2 scores:
7.322916667
Heng Dai
I'll give this one straight A's. I thought it did a good job of moving the plot along and was an overall good read.
"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
AAC
The book is perfect, except for the "ending" which I don't believe it actually has. I resented King for many many years for ending it on Blaine until he finally published W&G. If you read it for the first time when W&G was already available perhaps the ending sits better, but when you had to wait years to see if King would ever return to Roland and the tet it didn't do anything but piss me the hell off.
A+B+A+
If it weren't for integrity...what would you be? Ka is a wheel.....
Triple Bs.
Triple As again...just because of what we're voting on. Even though I liked Drawing of the Three more and this got the same score. The ending was tricky, since it was a cliff hanger ending. But I loved it still.
Perfectly said, and the exact sentiments I have, as well as the identical grading.Originally Posted by R_of_G
I'm thinking everyone knows what I gave this.
AAB
All AAAA's man. Wish I could give it A+ since it fueled my DT desire for nearly eight years.
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
A,B,C
BAA,
I liked the ending, and it is the one ending of all the books that I remember most clearly. Granted, the wait for W & G was long and terrible. But, this is one of my favs of the series.
all A's
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BBC.
The plot - what is it, they just go from point A to point B and Jake joins them.
Characters - by now they are already developed. We learn more about Jake, that's cool. Other characters? What, the Tick-Tock man?
The ending - There is none.
My favorite character in this book is Oy.
AAA The best book out of the DT series
I'm with on that one 3 Doors down, this was my favorite. And I also read this when it came out and waited for W&G, but the ending didn't bother me, though.
I just love the city of Lud part, which had some of the most picturesque scenes in the series. At least for me it did.
Geoff
The second favorite from DT series in my opinion - AAA
I am the one I am the one
The godlike terror train
The superior, artificial brain
Feel free to call me Blaine!
A!A!A!
Have you heard of people with short fuses? Well, I have no fuse at all, and there's a thousand could testify to it if I hadn't stilled their tongues for good.
You can't ignore my girth.
BBA. I loved how King ended this book.
"...that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." ~ Ray Bradbury
This is actually one of my least favorite of The Dark Tower Series. For some reason I had a really hard time getting through this book and I'm not sure why. I got really tired of Blaine the Mono and his riddles. Maybe I had a lot going on in my personal life at the time, maybe I suck at riddles but basically I thought Blaine was a pain.
A! A! OY! er... A!
i like the cliffhanger. i think if King had continued into the whole Blaine riddle contest instead of putting it in w&G, it would have turned out badly
And if King had never returned to the series at all it wouldn't actually have an ending at all. I spent many years wondering if King would ever return to Roland. If for some reason he hadn't, it would at least be nice to know what happened on the train even if we didn't ever find out what happened after that. To me a cliffhanger isn't an ending.
AAC
The ending of Drawing of the Three was far more psychologically intense. I did enjoy the development of Jake's character, and constant foreshadowing of Blaine.
Even though I think whichever volume of the series is my favorite one while I'm reading it, I think this one really may be the very bestest of all.
AAA again!
Jayson, I know what you're saying about the ending, but to me that still doesn't take away from the quality of the ending.
... though yes of course, I was pissed off oftentimes over those years with the lack of any news of a beginning to the next Book!
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