Green Mile was v.good. Desperation was good for about the first 100 pages...Avatar wrote: Quite liked (most of) Desperation and The Green Mile though. Both had weak points. Both engaging ones.
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that whole mad, psycho cop thing!! 
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...and then became utterly stupid and crappy for the next 400. IMO.
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Oh, and I also thought Tommyknockers was pretty poor.
(But none of the poor ones stop me from reading more........)
I thought that was a really neat idea, too. Except that in reading them, I really like Desperation, and really disliked Regulators. Go figure.i liked the hook of the Regulators and Desperation having the same cast - just altered.
Oh, and I also thought Tommyknockers was pretty poor.
(But none of the poor ones stop me from reading more........)
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Driving down the razor's edge between the past and the future
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Driving down the razor's edge between the past and the future
Turn up the music and smile
Get carried away on the songs and stories of vanished times
I've only ever liked his short stories. I always found his novels bloated and stylistically flat. I haven't read any King for many years, but did get that sense (which Marv pointed out) that he was hit and miss all throughout. That happens to most writers, especially ones as insanely popular as King.
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I had lost faith in King with 'It', gave 'Tommyknockers' a try on the recommendation of a friend. He said the ending was incredible. Needless to say, my friend has incomprehensible ideals in what makes a good book 
What allowed me to forgive Stephen King was 'The Stand' and his short story 'Jerusalem's Lot' (which was just f-ing amazing, go figure that my friend thinks it's one of King's worst writings 
). When I have time and/or during winter's break, I'm going to read Hearts in Atlantis and Lisey's Story (which I found for a buck, so why the hell not?)
What allowed me to forgive Stephen King was 'The Stand' and his short story 'Jerusalem's Lot' (which was just f-ing amazing, go figure that my friend thinks it's one of King's worst writings ). When I have time and/or during winter's break, I'm going to read Hearts in Atlantis and Lisey's Story (which I found for a buck, so why the hell not?)'Tis dream to think that Reason can
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Govern the reasoning creature, man.
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I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
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