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3.35 AVERAGE
3.35 AVERAGE
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
medium-paced
adventurous
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
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12th book of 2024 complete & I must say that this is now officially my favourite King novel. I always enjoy a good cabin in the woods horror and King definitely didn’t disappoint…shit weasels.
The discussion of the trials and tribulations that can/do occur in friendships throughout life felt very relative. How we should cherish all the time spent because life’s a forever moving yet finite beast. Ending honestly made me shed a tear.
Also… shit weasels are the devil
12th book of 2024 complete & I must say that this is now officially my favourite King novel. I always enjoy a good cabin in the woods horror and King definitely didn’t disappoint…shit weasels.
The discussion of the trials and tribulations that can/do occur in friendships throughout life felt very relative. How we should cherish all the time spent because life’s a forever moving yet finite beast. Ending honestly made me shed a tear.
Also… shit weasels are the devil
No pensaba que me fuera a gustar tanto, pero leer esto después de una pandemia le da un toque un poco terrorífico.
La historia trata de cuatro amigos que han crecido y no han cumplido ninguna de sus expectativas de cuando eran jóvenes. Cada año se reúnen para cazar y la historia se tuerce cuando empiezan a pasar
La historia trata de cuatro amigos que han crecido y no han cumplido ninguna de sus expectativas de cuando eran jóvenes. Cada año se reúnen para cazar y la historia se tuerce cuando empiezan a pasar
I read or listen to this one almost every single winter. Those first 100 pages are my happy place—-four lifelong friends enjoying each other’s company. The prose just spools from page to page. King really saw the line when the wrote this one. I suspect i use a phrase from this book every other day in my daily life. One of my absolute favorites.
4.4 stars.
First off. Let me just say that you honestly can’t go off the reviews on the King’s books. You just have to dive in and make up your own mind about it all.
I say this because now that I’ve read a Grand and Lofty total of 2 books (please. Hold your applause for this awe inspiring accomplishment
First off. Let me just say that you honestly can’t go off the reviews on the King’s books. You just have to dive in and make up your own mind about it all.
I say this because now that I’ve read a Grand and Lofty total of 2 books (please. Hold your applause for this awe inspiring accomplishment
Mt first King for a long while. Had this for a decade in both hardback and paperback but somehow never picked it up off the shelf.
Wish I had sooner to be honest. It is classic King in that it combines elements of supernatural along with some biting horror and a hefty amount of examining human behaviour.
Like It the tale follows a group of friends switching between current and past events to excellent effect (and not confusing, as can sometimes be the case with King).
The characterizations are superb and, as ever, you are truly drawn into their lives. The afterword reveals King wrote this by hand in fountain pen while recuperating after his car accident. Looking back through the book you can see several moments that are directly influenced by his real-world situation.
Well worth reading.
Wish I had sooner to be honest. It is classic King in that it combines elements of supernatural along with some biting horror and a hefty amount of examining human behaviour.
Like It the tale follows a group of friends switching between current and past events to excellent effect (and not confusing, as can sometimes be the case with King).
The characterizations are superb and, as ever, you are truly drawn into their lives. The afterword reveals King wrote this by hand in fountain pen while recuperating after his car accident. Looking back through the book you can see several moments that are directly influenced by his real-world situation.
Well worth reading.
Had to reread for book club, and while I know I read this shortly after its release, the only things I remembered about it were the "shit weasels" (like how could you not remember that?) and the location of the climax since it was semi-local for me. I didn't even remember if I liked it the first time around.
I can definitely say now, no. So why 3 stars? Because there was so much potential, and I think that was my second biggest complaint about the book. There were several very interesting concepts here, but because there were so many, nothing really got a thorough exploration. Aliens, military, ESP, buddy tale... pick one and write a good book about it, or pick all of the above and get all you can eat buffet quality.
My biggest complaint was by far was the way Duddits' character was written. I guess maybe it was progress that this time it wasn't a black character being the magical mystical helper/savior of the white characters, but now we've moved on to a developmentally disabled perma-child character to fill that position. It wasn't just the language the "hero" characters used about Duddits, though that was cringe-inducing, especially since they never had a moment even later as adults of thinking "wow, we were sh**ty, weren't we?" but the entire framing of their being saviors of this poor helpless little lost lamb as the time they were at their best as humans.
Add in a lot of things that happened without any explanation and having 4 pretty interchangeable men as the central characters, and I just... am so disappointed in the potential unmet here.
I can definitely say now, no. So why 3 stars? Because there was so much potential, and I think that was my second biggest complaint about the book. There were several very interesting concepts here, but because there were so many, nothing really got a thorough exploration. Aliens, military, ESP, buddy tale... pick one and write a good book about it, or pick all of the above and get all you can eat buffet quality.
My biggest complaint was by far was the way Duddits' character was written. I guess maybe it was progress that this time it wasn't a black character being the magical mystical helper/savior of the white characters, but now we've moved on to a developmentally disabled perma-child character to fill that position. It wasn't just the language the "hero" characters used about Duddits, though that was cringe-inducing, especially since they never had a moment even later as adults of thinking "wow, we were sh**ty, weren't we?" but the entire framing of their being saviors of this poor helpless little lost lamb as the time they were at their best as humans.
Add in a lot of things that happened without any explanation and having 4 pretty interchangeable men as the central characters, and I just... am so disappointed in the potential unmet here.