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3.75 AVERAGE
3.75 AVERAGE
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
While I did like the 1st half when we got to the second half. No clue how they connected just felt jarring
Not one of my favorites. It was hard for me to relate to the time period and the characters.
dark
reflective
sad
slow-paced
I didn’t realize going in that this was more of a collection of short stories that are connected than a book. I wanted more out of the first story than I ended up getting.
This book follows the lives of 5 children growing up together in the same town and jumps forward in time to show how they ended up. It delves into the horror that was the Vietnam War and how it changed everything for each of them.
This book has a very interesting atmosphere to it. Historical yet kind of fantastic and magical. This book reminds me of 11/22/63 only this time we are the ones who traveled in time to the 60s. The stories were so real I actually felt like I'm THERE. being a student currently, his story about college students hit right in the mark, I can't even deliver how accurately King caught the atmosphere even though it was in a completely different time. The only reason I gave it 4 stars is that this book felt a bit too long and some of the stories were a bit dull. But I enjoyed most of it.
dark
emotional
medium-paced
The two earlier & longer stories in this sort-of-novel-sort-of-collection are definitely the strongest, but they were really great.
I read this book because it’s supposed to be connected to the Dark Tower series, or at least one of the stories are. I had seen the movie with Sir Anthony which is actually the first of the five short stories called, “Low Men in Yellow Coats,” about Bobby Garfield of Harwich, Connecticut, who craves a Schwinn for his 11th birthday. But his widowed mom is impoverished, and so bitter that she barely loves him. Bobby’s mom takes in a lodger, Ted Brautigan and then tale turns and it is a Dark Tower story that just happens to be here in this novel instead of in the actual series. The other four stories are connected to the first weakly, but whole book is enjoyable.
