Which book(s) of SK didn't you like?
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 11:04 am
Which one did you hate the most?
Didn't like:
TommyKnockers
Desperation/The Regulators
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Which book(s) of SK didn't you like?
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Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 3:13 pm
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 5:11 pm
SK is like a drug habit to me. I'll read it no matter what the quality. But The Tommyknockers is definitely one of my least favorites, along with thr Regulators, and Misery. 
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 5:22 pm
Oh, and I didn't much care for Dreamcatcher.
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 7:00 am
Ditto on dreamcatcher the beginning was good though... I never finished it... There was another on that I didn't like but I can't remember the name of it... figures I guess.
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 7:28 am
Bag of Bones
It just didn't seem like anything worthwhile happened.
It just didn't seem like anything worthwhile happened.
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 6:24 pm
Dreamcatcher
Tommy Knockers
Bag Of Bones
The Regulators
just to name a few... he's got a hellva body of work and it's amazing that almost all of his books hit the best seller lists, some stay on it longer than others but he's an automatic "sell-out" whenever his newest works hit the shelves.
But as with the titles (and others) mentioned (above) writers do hit slumps now and again.
Tommy Knockers
Bag Of Bones
The Regulators
just to name a few... he's got a hellva body of work and it's amazing that almost all of his books hit the best seller lists, some stay on it longer than others but he's an automatic "sell-out" whenever his newest works hit the shelves.
But as with the titles (and others) mentioned (above) writers do hit slumps now and again.
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 12:02 pm
Tommyknockers, Regulators (evil Power Rangers), and half of the Dark Half. They all blew!
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Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 10:34 am
Tommyknockers
heres my quick synopsis....
seriously, thats how it goes, but for over 700 pages, IMO a great 300 page story that went WAY, WAY too far.
King himself admits that he was one day browsing through a bookstore and saw the title with his name on it, and had totally forgotten that he had written it, or what it was about, because he was at the worst of his cocaine addiction during its conception and writting.
Yeah, not his brightest work by a long shot
heres my quick synopsis....
Spoiler
girl discovers thing in ground....weird green light...teeth begin falling out......weird green light.....someone dies.....weird green light...somthing blows up....weird green light.....someone invents somthing...weird green light...followed by more...weird green light....everyones teeth begin falling out...weird green light...you begin questioning if people have that many teeth available for the weird green light to make fall out.......more teeth....light.....more death...light......then aliens......light....ship blows up.....everyone left alive sees the dentist......the end
seriously, thats how it goes, but for over 700 pages, IMO a great 300 page story that went WAY, WAY too far.
King himself admits that he was one day browsing through a bookstore and saw the title with his name on it, and had totally forgotten that he had written it, or what it was about, because he was at the worst of his cocaine addiction during its conception and writting.
Yeah, not his brightest work by a long shot
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 4:51 pm
Definitely Bag of Bones - much ado for nothing.
Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 9:48 pm
Least Favorites and the reason:
The Tommyknockers - as said elsewhere here, it's too long for the plot. The same story could have been told in a lot less pages.
Insomnia - ditto - however, I will say that it had one of the best death scenes at the end I've ever read, and of course, I enjoyed the Dark Tower tie-in.
Pet Sematary - King chickened out and turned a great novel into a slasher flick, when Gage comes back from the dead. He should have continued in the absolutely chilling and eerie vein he used with the cat's resurrection, with Gage just being slightly "off" and how the parents would come to terms with this.
Cujo - a great straight suspense novel, which didn't need the supernatural trappings introduced late in the book.
Roadwork - much ado about nothing.
The Sundogs - trying too hard, and weak in comparison to the other entries in Four Past Midnight.
Black House. I wanted to see a whole lot more of the Territories. The bikers scenes were way too drawn out and extended. I blame Straub!!!!!
The Tommyknockers - as said elsewhere here, it's too long for the plot. The same story could have been told in a lot less pages.
Insomnia - ditto - however, I will say that it had one of the best death scenes at the end I've ever read, and of course, I enjoyed the Dark Tower tie-in.
Pet Sematary - King chickened out and turned a great novel into a slasher flick, when Gage comes back from the dead. He should have continued in the absolutely chilling and eerie vein he used with the cat's resurrection, with Gage just being slightly "off" and how the parents would come to terms with this.
Cujo - a great straight suspense novel, which didn't need the supernatural trappings introduced late in the book.
Roadwork - much ado about nothing.
The Sundogs - trying too hard, and weak in comparison to the other entries in Four Past Midnight.
Black House. I wanted to see a whole lot more of the Territories. The bikers scenes were way too drawn out and extended. I blame Straub!!!!!
Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 9:51 pm
I can't believe I forgot one of my biggest disappointment. From a Buick 8.
I will never buy into his basic concept that SIXTY or seventy people associated with a police station could keep a secret of such magnitude for 20 years. A handful of people for 20 years. Or 60 people for a couple of years. But not sixty people for 20 years. It defies all logic and human nature. And King is normally a keen student of human nature.
Ruined the story for me.
I will never buy into his basic concept that SIXTY or seventy people associated with a police station could keep a secret of such magnitude for 20 years. A handful of people for 20 years. Or 60 people for a couple of years. But not sixty people for 20 years. It defies all logic and human nature. And King is normally a keen student of human nature.
Ruined the story for me.
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 12:06 am
Gerald's Game-Pointlessly masochistic. I felt dumber after I read it.
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 12:25 am
Dreamcatcher was spleen-rending TERRIBLE.
Tommyknockers....YAWN!
Tommyknockers....YAWN!
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 7:43 pm
It's funny, Gunslinger. For the most part we agree on Stephen King, certainly where the Dark Tower is concerned.
However, in the year 2001, we are totally at odds. I think Dreamcatcher was a the great novel of that particular year, and you think Black House was.
However, in the year 2001, we are totally at odds. I think Dreamcatcher was a the great novel of that particular year, and you think Black House was.