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lefttoread's Reviews (532)
When you feel like you should DNF this book... JUST DO IT.
The start of this book was okay, after 100 or so pages I was thinking this is a really slow build up but then again it is 1.4k pages so I’ll give it a chance, I got over 500 pages and the story was still building up! King kept adding more characters that we didn’t need, there was complete chapters that did not need to be in this book, a lot of it was a waste of time.
I know others have mentioned Kings way of describing females before and the way he speaks about sex.. it’s never usually bothered me too much, like it has never put me off the book completely but in The Stand there was SOOOO much of it, it was all so vulgar and crude. Now don’t be reading this and thinking well you should have thicker skin because the descriptions don’t put me off, not a lot can get to me it’s just the fact that it was ALL so unnecessary. Pointless, immature sex scenes all the way through.
At one point there was two characters who had just met and they decided to get it on and this was King’s way of writing it.. ‘Hey, lets make it,’ she said. ‘You’re sort of cute.’ ... ‘She was tugging at his belt. ‘Come on I’m on the pill. It’s safe.’ ‘You can, can’t you? I mean just because you can’t talk, that doesn’t mean you can’t—‘ ‘He put his hands out, perhaps meaning to take her by the shoulders, but he found her breasts instead.’ (King the breast man) ‘He lowered her to the floor and had her’ HE HAD HER. So bad.
Then another.. ‘Oh my God how I love to be sexy with my man and how I love him to be sexy with me when he gets me what he gets me what he shoots in me and sometimes at the instant of her climax she would think of corn, the bland corn with its roots planted not too deep but wide, she would think of flesh and then the corn, when it was all over and her husband lay beside her the sex smell would be in the room, the smell of spunk the man had shot in her, the smell of the juices she made to smooth his way, and it was a smell like busked corn, mild and sweet, a goodish smell.’ —— NO STEPHEN, STOP.
So yeah the majority of the story was full of that crap, you could read the first 100 pages, a odd chapter here and there to pick up new characters and the last 200 pages and you would still know exactly what happens.
Easily could have been a 400 page book probably even less.
I’m sorry but I hate this book!
The start of this book was okay, after 100 or so pages I was thinking this is a really slow build up but then again it is 1.4k pages so I’ll give it a chance, I got over 500 pages and the story was still building up! King kept adding more characters that we didn’t need, there was complete chapters that did not need to be in this book, a lot of it was a waste of time.
I know others have mentioned Kings way of describing females before and the way he speaks about sex.. it’s never usually bothered me too much, like it has never put me off the book completely but in The Stand there was SOOOO much of it, it was all so vulgar and crude. Now don’t be reading this and thinking well you should have thicker skin because the descriptions don’t put me off, not a lot can get to me it’s just the fact that it was ALL so unnecessary. Pointless, immature sex scenes all the way through.
At one point there was two characters who had just met and they decided to get it on and this was King’s way of writing it.. ‘Hey, lets make it,’ she said. ‘You’re sort of cute.’ ... ‘She was tugging at his belt. ‘Come on I’m on the pill. It’s safe.’ ‘You can, can’t you? I mean just because you can’t talk, that doesn’t mean you can’t—‘ ‘He put his hands out, perhaps meaning to take her by the shoulders, but he found her breasts instead.’ (King the breast man) ‘He lowered her to the floor and had her’ HE HAD HER. So bad.
Then another.. ‘Oh my God how I love to be sexy with my man and how I love him to be sexy with me when he gets me what he gets me what he shoots in me and sometimes at the instant of her climax she would think of corn, the bland corn with its roots planted not too deep but wide, she would think of flesh and then the corn, when it was all over and her husband lay beside her the sex smell would be in the room, the smell of spunk the man had shot in her, the smell of the juices she made to smooth his way, and it was a smell like busked corn, mild and sweet, a goodish smell.’ —— NO STEPHEN, STOP.
So yeah the majority of the story was full of that crap, you could read the first 100 pages, a odd chapter here and there to pick up new characters and the last 200 pages and you would still know exactly what happens.
Easily could have been a 400 page book probably even less.
I’m sorry but I hate this book!
I really love the Grishaverse, the characters, the plot, everything. Definite YA vibes and a lot of typical things that have been done quite a few times that I couldn't help but roll my eyes at. Strong, enjoyable story all round though.
This was a fun thriller, I enjoyed the plot and characters, the writing was strong and I'd definitely read more by the author but it wasn't as 'thrilling' as I'd hoped and I guessed everything that was going to happen which is rare for me anyways.
Left me wanting more which I never expected! A star knocked off as I didn't care for some of the chapters but it all came together and made sense to why they were there in the end.
This book started off really well. I enjoyed it and I was enjoying Stephen Kings writing again, but after a while everything was dragged out. More than half of this book could have been scrapped and I think if the book was told mainly from Bill's point of view it would of stayed interesting. I loved the characters but it just wasn't worth the hype it's gotten. It's not scary, some of the details about IT are spooky but that's about it. It's more of a story about a group of kids that grew up in Derry, Maine, and that's that. I am glad I've started getting back in to Stephen King though