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Post by Carl LaFong on Sept 4, 2019 10:32:50 GMT
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Sept 4, 2019 11:55:16 GMT
sounds great. thanks for sharing, ff.
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Post by amyghost on Sept 4, 2019 13:18:15 GMT
I'd say that's a fair review (caveat: I haven't read the book as of yet). Hits King's pretty undeniable gifts as a storyteller accurately, but also isn't afraid to point out the tendency towards prolixity and the ever more noticeable trend towards both 'borrowing' from others and rehashing his own tropes that the old lion has pretty obviously fallen prey to. But I suspect King will be pulling in readers until he steps into the grave, and after that he'll continue to speak from it in the form of reams of 'undiscovered' and unpublished works. Such is the power of a pop literary steamroller of his magnitude, that no sin he could commit will be too great to lose him more than a fragment of his audience.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Sept 4, 2019 14:04:31 GMT
i dont think people will ever tire of STEPHEN KING novels and QUENTIN TARANTINO movies. they have become staples of american culture now.
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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 4, 2019 14:40:49 GMT
What choice do audiences have?
New voices are denied a mass media platform.
Culture is no longer based on merit.
It's dictated by brand names and agendas.
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Post by hi224 on Sept 4, 2019 22:27:38 GMT
sounds alright.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2019 1:04:04 GMT
i dont think people will ever tire of STEPHEN KING novels and QUENTIN TARANTINO movies. they have become staples of american culture now. I will go back and reread some of King's older works but to me he hasn't written a really good novel in about 30 years, which would be It. I've tried reading so many of his later works and they bore me to death.
And I was done with Tarantino after Inglourious Basterds. Great opening act. The rest was terrible. I disliked it so much, I swore never to watch another of his films.
But you are probably right. People get used to certain things, usually reluctant to change.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Sept 6, 2019 3:28:34 GMT
I'm eagerly awaiting the release.
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Sept 15, 2019 12:41:42 GMT
Recieved this book on Wednesday. Started reading it last night. So far, so good.
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Post by Vassaggo on Sept 16, 2019 6:58:25 GMT
Finished it today. It's above average King novel but not a classic one. I didn't like the plot structure starting in SC for first 1/8th of the book then in Maine for 5/8ths and then final 1/4th back in SC. Normally King is good at going back and forth developing multiple strings of plot. Here he doesn't. He still can write kids well. He usually doesn't get straight sci-fi done very well. His sci-fi is always better mixed with fantasy. Here he does a decent job. The main protagonists and antagonists are well defined. The side characters not so much. Usually King does well with filing out the side characters, but here it's a little lacking. His common voice is used well for the plot and characters as normal. The man can lull you into suspending your disbelief really easy and massively so. King does have a rep for not being able to end a book. Here he ended it pretty well. I'd give it a B+ |
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Sept 19, 2019 16:08:29 GMT
Really liked the book, but I feel like the "bad ending" curse that has followed King around since the beginning of his career is still in effect.
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Post by Vassaggo on Sept 20, 2019 8:11:25 GMT
Really liked the book, but I feel like the "bad ending" curse that has followed King around since the beginning of his career is still in effect. Now when you say bad ending this could mean 2 different things. I've seen these 2 problems for King if the ending is poor. The ending feels rushed, there is no real catharsis, and usually involves Deus ex Machina. or The ending is decent to good on the above faults, but it's not a good ending for the characters. ie the antagonist lose but the protagonist take a massive hit, it's a tie between prot and ant. or straight out the protagonist win. Now the last is mainly for his short fiction, but I would say in Revival and a handful of other novels the Protagonist win the day.) Which are saying this is?
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Sept 20, 2019 15:18:04 GMT
Really liked the book, but I feel like the "bad ending" curse that has followed King around since the beginning of his career is still in effect. Now when you say bad ending this could mean 2 different things. I've seen these 2 problems for King if the ending is poor. The ending feels rushed, there is no real catharsis, and usually involves Deus ex Machina. or The ending is decent to good on the above faults, but it's not a good ending for the characters. ie the antagonist lose but the protagonist take a massive hit, it's a tie between prot and ant. or straight out the protagonist win. Now the last is mainly for his short fiction, but I would say in Revival and a handful of other novels the Protagonist win the day.) Which are saying this is? It's the first option. I actually like how he left the characters, but everything just felt so rushed to be at the end, and the climax felt a little weak. |
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Post by Vassaggo on Sept 20, 2019 20:35:09 GMT
Now when you say bad ending this could mean 2 different things. I've seen these 2 problems for King if the ending is poor. The ending feels rushed, there is no real catharsis, and usually involves Deus ex Machina. or The ending is decent to good on the above faults, but it's not a good ending for the characters. ie the antagonist lose but the protagonist take a massive hit, it's a tie between prot and ant. or straight out the protagonist win. Now the last is mainly for his short fiction, but I would say in Revival and a handful of other novels the Protagonist win the day.) Which are saying this is? It's the first option. I actually like how he left the characters, but everything just felt so rushed to be at the end, and the climax felt a little weak. I don't know if I 100% agree. I thought that the ending suited the story. The only problem I had with the ending was the predictability of it. After I got to the half way point and we hadn't gotten back to SC and to Tim in the story I knew that the kid would get to SC some how. And the cover art, showed exactly how he was getting there. King showed his hand to much with those two things.
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