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3.65 AVERAGE
3.65 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
adventurous
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
slow-paced
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
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This was a fantastic book! King’s characters are so well fleshed out and feel so real, plus the plot felt so deliberate with everything coming through and paying off.
I don’t know if it’s just I read the first 400 pages in a day because I had nothing else to do but this books didn’t feel as long as it was and skipped by easily. Loved it, hyped to read more King.
Only reason it’s not a 10 is there’s a short chapter near the climax where some stuff happens that did come out of nowhere that went away again very quickly. I realise ceding that earlier would make the book longer but that was my only slight complaint.
This was a fantastic book! King’s characters are so well fleshed out and feel so real, plus the plot felt so deliberate with everything coming through and paying off.
I don’t know if it’s just I read the first 400 pages in a day because I had nothing else to do but this books didn’t feel as long as it was and skipped by easily. Loved it, hyped to read more King.
Only reason it’s not a 10 is there’s a short chapter near the climax where some stuff happens that did come out of nowhere that went away again very quickly. I realise ceding that earlier would make the book longer but that was my only slight complaint.
Took me three times to finally finish it, but I was glad as hell when I did. Not at fault of this spectacular writer, though, I was just too busy to. When I closed the pages to this novel, I felt both depressed and overjoyed. There's a large, glaring connection to the Dark Tower series, but this story also functions amazingly as a stand alone. 5/5 from me.
I read this before I read the Dark Tower series, years ago, and missed a lot of little clues and references. Then I reread it with "new eyes" after I finished the Dark Tower Series and was giddy with all the little gems that make such more sense after reading the Dark Tower series. Now I'm rereading all his books to find the references that I know are there. I love how everything is tied together.
Some people didn't like this book, but I loved it. I grew to love Ralph and everyone else. And I totally cried at the end.
Some people didn't like this book, but I loved it. I grew to love Ralph and everyone else. And I totally cried at the end.
dark
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
IT, in bloody typescript, proved to me a symbol on the encroaching grammatic lexicon for the present age; though my speech is often rather more simple than my writing, and I tend to use the aforementioned 'It' than I use 'They/Them'.
How did the game end with ASU and Baylor? I read IT back and forth on the shuttle bus between home and university and the elongated MMPB with a glossy sheen over the edges turned over quickly. I still don't agree with Stephen King's opinion about adverbs! Actually I hadn't had enough of the land of Derry. I started reading Insomnia, and I brought it to my doctor's office. A golden girl inquired of me, 'what kind of book is that?' half-truculently.
"Now you know the most essential difference between dogs and men, he thought. Their souls reside in different places."
[Doggy! Here, doggy, c'mere!]
But that first experience with Insomnia was terrifying. I closed the book, expecting that should I return to it again it should be in another format. And I did. Pennywise the clown still wasn't enough Derry for me. But Insomnia, in perspective, is probably the most terrifying novel to be put in. Cause I have morose tales of being incurably sleep deprived. So here, Ralph begins to prematurely wake at the ungodly pre-daybreak and then propels into this peculiar adventure with the Bald Brothers. Commonly known from the Hercules animation as Atropos, Lacplesis, and Clothos.
"All over Derry, people who didn't give a shit one way or the other about the abortion issue (the vast majority, in other words) were sitting down to hot dinners."
Imagine Thrax from Osmosis Jones. & Thrax is up to his old shenanigans, this time the mitochondrial cells and white blood cells are gathered together in a pro-life rally. And Thrax merely needs to pull their strings to sever the life force or 'aura', and these old dogs, oldest cells in the bloodstream, are facing the odds against sleep to stop this act of terrorism. Think of Paul Theroux in Family Arsenal, or Thomas Harris in Black Sunday. But it's all hallucinatory.
Did they use the same house in Nobody's Fool (1994) that they used for the Church in The Church (2018)?
How did the game end with ASU and Baylor? I read IT back and forth on the shuttle bus between home and university and the elongated MMPB with a glossy sheen over the edges turned over quickly. I still don't agree with Stephen King's opinion about adverbs! Actually I hadn't had enough of the land of Derry. I started reading Insomnia, and I brought it to my doctor's office. A golden girl inquired of me, 'what kind of book is that?' half-truculently.
"Now you know the most essential difference between dogs and men, he thought. Their souls reside in different places."
[Doggy! Here, doggy, c'mere!]
But that first experience with Insomnia was terrifying. I closed the book, expecting that should I return to it again it should be in another format. And I did. Pennywise the clown still wasn't enough Derry for me. But Insomnia, in perspective, is probably the most terrifying novel to be put in. Cause I have morose tales of being incurably sleep deprived. So here, Ralph begins to prematurely wake at the ungodly pre-daybreak and then propels into this peculiar adventure with the Bald Brothers. Commonly known from the Hercules animation as Atropos, Lacplesis, and Clothos.
"All over Derry, people who didn't give a shit one way or the other about the abortion issue (the vast majority, in other words) were sitting down to hot dinners."
Imagine Thrax from Osmosis Jones. & Thrax is up to his old shenanigans, this time the mitochondrial cells and white blood cells are gathered together in a pro-life rally. And Thrax merely needs to pull their strings to sever the life force or 'aura', and these old dogs, oldest cells in the bloodstream, are facing the odds against sleep to stop this act of terrorism. Think of Paul Theroux in Family Arsenal, or Thomas Harris in Black Sunday. But it's all hallucinatory.
Did they use the same house in Nobody's Fool (1994) that they used for the Church in The Church (2018)?
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No