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geekyscot's Reviews (74)
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
At this point, and only three books in, the amount of times that Stephen King writes about children’s genitalia is getting more than a bit weird. The copious use of the n-word you can explain away as a sign of the times it was written in, but the genitalia stuff is much harder to reason with.
Good book otherwise.
Good book otherwise.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Where Carrie had a lot of unnecessary racism, ‘Salem’s Lot has a bizarre amount of homophobia. Sure, some of that can be waved away because these are backwoods, small town hicks, but a lot is just unneeded, and some exists solely in King’s narration.
Still, it’s a decent story very well-told.
Still, it’s a decent story very well-told.
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Another fun Rivers of London adventure. I’m always impressed with how much I remember from previous books, especially with the now rather enormous cast of characters.
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Nothing in this disproved that it’s a sequel series to The Expanse, so will continue to believe that until it’s proven otherwise.
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It's weird that this is treated with such reverence by fantasy fans, because for me it felt weirdly focused on solely the people at the absolute top of society's structures and completely ignored what could have been much more interesting people who actually live in that society. The general populace of the places depicted do little more than die, or clean. The story is decent, but it's so skewed towards the rich I struggled to empathise with any of them.
informative
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Solidly interesting, and a better read than Unlikeable Female Characters.
funny
informative
lighthearted
fast-paced
Solidly interesting read, if lacking in depth due to the speed at which it whips through its various examples. Definitely a good choice to reference and acknowledge but not focus on the obvious flops we all know about and instead have chapters on some of the more off-beat and interesting movies and the stories behind them.
challenging
funny
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
funny
informative
lighthearted
medium-paced
Enjoyable, but often feels like it was written in chunks and not properly edited a cohesive whole. There’s a lot of repetition of facts, information and background, often even within chapters, which is a bit frustrating as someone reading it from cover to cover.
dark
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
It’s often funny, but just as often cringe-inducingly out of touch and borderline offensive. Feels like it was written decades ago.