PattiM
from Traverse City, MI is reading The Contortionist's HandbookDecember 6, 2011 - 9:18am
Stranger in a Strange land's ending was disappointing. In the beginning it was great but then it becomes less about it what it was in the beginning and turns religious, and then the main character gets lost in his religious movement he is trying to make.
I thought the The Dark Tower ending was bad too, Roland was treated like crap after all the work King put into him and all the emphasis he put on the Dark Tower itself too. It's like maybe he shouldn't have ended it until he could write a good ending for it, people may have been waiting forever and would no doubt complain about it, plus you may die before it gets out there, but at least you didn't work so hard to make such a good story just to have it summed quickly in the end and suck.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.December 6, 2011 - 10:33am
SPOILER...I mean, I suppose since he repeats the same timeline over and over, one time an alternate ending could happen that is actually good? ;p I still want to read "Wind through the Keyhole" next year, it's a Dark Tower book King wrote that takes place between the timeline of Books 3 and Four. Susannah, Eddie, Jake, Roland and Oy will always be my literary friends. I did hate the last book because he jus kept killing them off one by one, I get what he was trying to do, show us the whole hero's journey thing and how in the end, he must finish alone but it also pissed me off. Also some of the stuff was a little out there like Susannah getting new "white lady" legs, the baby being Rolands because she was raped by the same demon succubus that had sex with him, the dude from Salem's Lot showing up out of nowhere, King putting himself in the books, the whole 9/11 reference was pretty tasteless and for all the build up, the Crimson King basically went EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeee and that was the scary part of him! lol. I was like, "Come on, Stevie, you built up 7 books to this??!!!" The inside of the Dark Tower wasn't even that cool. The nexus of time and space should be a little more surreal than he described.
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December 6, 2011 - 11:14am
He rushed them after his car wreck which is disappointing. I stopped after I read Wolves Of The Calla. The Drawing Of Three was my favorite. I'll read the last two eventually.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.December 6, 2011 - 2:09pm
I love Blaine the Mono. Cast your nets, Wanderers.......
Freaking Detta/Odetta. The house that tries to eat Jake. Ahh, reminds me of high school sitting in the back of the library during lunch like a nerd lol
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ReneeAPickup
from Southern California is reading Wanderers by Chuck WendigDecember 6, 2011 - 6:52pm
Drawing of the Three was my favorite as well, but I still liked the last one. I don't know. I felt like there were some off parts, but it didn't feel rushed to me, and I liked the ending. I did feel like Flagg got a raw deal, though.
On the flip side, when he decided to do away with the entire "Castle Rock" universe in Needful Things, he blew me away. My only complaint was that he killed off my favorite character in a passing sentence (Thad Beaumont) that had nothing to do with the story (okay, ONE of my favorites, because Eddie Dean and Henry Leydon will always have a special place).
Dean Blake
from Australia is reading generationend.comDecember 7, 2011 - 6:23am
All the Haruki Murakami novels I've read so far end up with him being alone. I'd like to read a story of his where he lives happily ever after.
Stranger in a Strange land's ending was disappointing. In the beginning it was great but then it becomes less about it what it was in the beginning and turns religious, and then the main character gets lost in his religious movement he is trying to make.
I thought the The Dark Tower ending was bad too, Roland was treated like crap after all the work King put into him and all the emphasis he put on the Dark Tower itself too. It's like maybe he shouldn't have ended it until he could write a good ending for it, people may have been waiting forever and would no doubt complain about it, plus you may die before it gets out there, but at least you didn't work so hard to make such a good story just to have it summed quickly in the end and suck.
SPOILER...I mean, I suppose since he repeats the same timeline over and over, one time an alternate ending could happen that is actually good? ;p I still want to read "Wind through the Keyhole" next year, it's a Dark Tower book King wrote that takes place between the timeline of Books 3 and Four. Susannah, Eddie, Jake, Roland and Oy will always be my literary friends. I did hate the last book because he jus kept killing them off one by one, I get what he was trying to do, show us the whole hero's journey thing and how in the end, he must finish alone but it also pissed me off. Also some of the stuff was a little out there like Susannah getting new "white lady" legs, the baby being Rolands because she was raped by the same demon succubus that had sex with him, the dude from Salem's Lot showing up out of nowhere, King putting himself in the books, the whole 9/11 reference was pretty tasteless and for all the build up, the Crimson King basically went EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeee and that was the scary part of him! lol. I was like, "Come on, Stevie, you built up 7 books to this??!!!" The inside of the Dark Tower wasn't even that cool. The nexus of time and space should be a little more surreal than he described.
He rushed them after his car wreck which is disappointing. I stopped after I read Wolves Of The Calla. The Drawing Of Three was my favorite. I'll read the last two eventually.
I love Blaine the Mono. Cast your nets, Wanderers.......
Freaking Detta/Odetta. The house that tries to eat Jake. Ahh, reminds me of high school sitting in the back of the library during lunch like a nerd lol
Drawing of the Three was my favorite as well, but I still liked the last one. I don't know. I felt like there were some off parts, but it didn't feel rushed to me, and I liked the ending. I did feel like Flagg got a raw deal, though.
On the flip side, when he decided to do away with the entire "Castle Rock" universe in Needful Things, he blew me away. My only complaint was that he killed off my favorite character in a passing sentence (Thad Beaumont) that had nothing to do with the story (okay, ONE of my favorites, because Eddie Dean and Henry Leydon will always have a special place).
All the Haruki Murakami novels I've read so far end up with him being alone. I'd like to read a story of his where he lives happily ever after.