Lennart Hyland
Muse
Oh no! I haven't read it but I have it on my list mostly because someone told me the ending was beautiful and made him cryAnother stupid ending was 11/22/63.
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Oh no! I haven't read it but I have it on my list mostly because someone told me the ending was beautiful and made him cryAnother stupid ending was 11/22/63.
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Just because Amy Strange says the ending is bad, that doesn't mean you'll find it bad. In fact, it can even help you make informed choices about good stuff to read.Oh no! I haven't read it but I have it on my list mostly because someone told me the ending was beautiful and made him cry![]()
Oh no! I haven't read it but I have it on my list mostly because someone told me the ending was beautiful and made him cry![]()
Just because Amy Strange says the ending is bad, that doesn't mean you'll find it bad. In fact, it can even help you make informed choices about good stuff to read.
Now that I know Amy disliked the endings of The Stand and The Dark Tower, and she also dislikes the ending of 11/22/63, I'm thinking I might actually enjoy it. On the other hand, his opinion of Under the Dome tells me that I probably won't like it. Not that I think he's stupid and wrong; we just have a clear difference in taste. I've found many an enjoyable movie, by paying attention to movie reviewers who hate the kinds of movies I like. Their negative review is just as informative to me as a positive review from a critic who shares my taste.
Sometimes he's just taking the correct route. 11/22/63, for example, has the correct ending.You're right, but just because you think they were good endings, doesn't mean that they really are either.
Anyway, regardless of the endings, they're still worth reading (you obviously ignored this part for some reason) if only because SK does write great characters, and the plot lines are usually pretty good, except for the endings, but that's just my opinion and not a fact, any more than yours are real facts too.
ETA: Read Under the Dome because as usual SK (like I just wrote) writes great characters and plot lines, especially if you like...
...playing video games.
Maybe instead of stupid, I should've used the word lazy. SK is a great writer, but some of his endings are lazy and unimaginative, like he didn't want to take the time to think up a good one and just took the easy route instead.
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Sometimes he's just taking the correct route. 11/22/63, for example, has the correct ending.
Jesus Christ. I'm no fan of rom-coms, but I at least understand they have a certain structure, that I can appreciate and respect.Personally, I think it's a good read. The characters and plotline are awesome, but that doesn't mean I have to like the ending. I think it's just too negative, but then again, SK is a master of horror, and that ending fits his persona.
All of SK's books (at least the approximately 30+ that I've read) are good reads because his characters and plotlines are all awesome, and just because I think some of the endings suck doesn't mean I'm right, and you're wrong.
It also doesn't mean you're right, and I'm wrong either.
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I'm often reminded of the ending of The Long Walk. (as Richard Bachman) A longer short story about a contest where the participants have to walk dozens of miles maintaining above a certain pace, or be shot. The last remaining one wins. Quite interesting all the way through, but I had to reread the last page a couple times to figure out what finally happened. I'm not sure I ever did.Personally, I think it's a good read. The characters and plotline are awesome, but that doesn't mean I have to like the ending. I think it's just too negative, but then again, SK is a master of horror, and that ending fits his persona.
All of SK's books (at least the approximately 30+ that I've read) are good reads because his characters and plotlines are all awesome, and just because I think some of the endings suck doesn't mean I'm right, and you're wrong.
It also doesn't mean you're right, and I'm wrong either.
ETA: Maybe (like I posted earlier) instead of stupid, I should've used the word lazy. SK is a great writer, but some of his endings are lazy and unimaginative, like he didn't want to take the time to think up a good one and just took the easy route instead.
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Jesus Christ. I'm no fan of rom-coms, but I at least understand they have a certain structure, that I can appreciate and respect.
A horror writer writes a story with a gut-punch ending and you complain it's stupid. Let me guess: You think the ending of "I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream" is lazy and stupid. Without having actually read it.
For a self professed storyteller, you seem to have a weak grasp of how stories work.
That's the one. And it was not just bad, it was BAD. The Dark Tower was pretty variable overall, with some of the books (or portions of books) being quite good and some just stinking so bad they could have been skipped altogether.Isn't that the one where the main character...
Another stupid ending was 11/22/63.
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All of SK's books (at least the approximately 30+ that I've read) are good reads because his characters and plotlines are all awesome, and just because I think some of the endings suck doesn't mean I'm right, and you're wrong.
Jesus Christ. I'm no fan of rom-coms, but I at least understand they have a certain structure, that I can appreciate and respect.
A horror writer writes a story with a gut-punch ending and you complain it's stupid. Let me guess: You think the ending of "I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream" is lazy and stupid. Without having actually read it.
For a self professed storyteller, you seem to have a weak grasp of how stories work.
That's the one. And it was not just bad, it was BAD. The Dark Tower was pretty variable overall, with some of the books (or portions of books) being quite good and some just stinking so bad they could have been skipped altogether.
Needful Things was pretty good, 11/22/63 wasn't my favorite, but as I recall (it's been a while) but I quite liked the way it started. I liked The Stand, ending included.
Agreed. I've been reading King since Carrie was serialized in Penthouse (I think it was Penthouse) and have enjoyed most of them.
But it seems like in the last decade or two he's gotten so big no editor will actually edit him and we wind up with a potentially great story like The Dark Tower where he just rambles on and on. I think that series could have been much better at about 30% less length.
It was the extended edition, which has an epilog, and I liked it. But it would have been a good ending even without it, I think.Did you read the original version or the rewrote one? The rewrote one seems to continue on after the original ending, and sounds like this one might be better, but that's just my opinion and NOT a fact.
It was the extended edition, which has an epilog, and I liked it. But it would have been a good ending even without it, I think.
And crap, now I think it was Firestarter that I read as serial, not Carrie.
I'm so sorry.I just got done reading Moby Dick...
I was sometimes amused at the formatting. I even considered making a joke version with "Just the punctuation". There are a couple sequences in there with such long run-on sentences it's ridiculous.
I was surprised it took so long for the title character to show up. Nowadays he'd have to have an attack in the first chapter.
Not particularly.Me too, but did you end up rooting for him in the end like I did?
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Not particularly.
"He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn't specify the point. He's an extraordinary looking man, and yet I really can name nothing out of the way."
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) is a remake of the 1931 film of the same name. Like its predecessor, it was a critical and commercial success and earned three Academy Award nominations. Thanks to Spencer Tracy's sinister Hyde, this adaptation is regarded as one of the best horror movies of the 1940s.
Most adaptations of Stevenson's novella depict Hyde as a monster with hideous physical traits. But the 1886 story never actually describes the character as being physically grotesque; it's his sinister and odious aura that makes him so despicable.
1940's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde captures this idea well. The physical differences between the two characters are more subtle in this film. You can barely notice a difference the first time Jekyll transforms into Hyde and glimpses his reflection in the mirror.
I think my favorite is probably the BBC miniseries from the 2000s, Michael Nesbitt plays both as far as I know with no FX other than his acting.
London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. Under the ideology of IngSoc and the rule of the Party and its leader Big Brother, Julia is a model citizen—cheerfully cynical, believing in nothing and caring not at all about politics. She routinely breaks the rules but also collaborates with the regime whenever necessary. Everyone likes Julia. A diligent member of the Junior Anti-Sex League (though she is secretly promiscuous) she knows how to survive in a world of constant surveillance, Thought Police, Newspeak, Doublethink, child spies and the black markets of the prole neighbourhoods. She's very good at staying alive.
Currently on Island of the Blue Dolphins. I'm sure I would have really liked it in middle school and it is still a good read. I know there was a movie made but I have no idea if it did it justice. I'm surprised it hasn't had a big budget remake as far as I know.
I had read the pentalogy once way back when and recall the same. Lots of rape in the first book and it's the first time I'd been exposed to that in sci-fi. I only kept going because it was one of my first long series and I was curious where it would go. I had mostly enjoyed the Blue Adept series but never reread this one. I also read most of the Xanth series but got tired after book 50 or so. (exaggerating)Currently reading... well struggling through to the end for completist purposes only, The Iron Maiden by Piers Anthony, volume 6 of the Bio of a Space Tyrant series and written some time after volume 5 actually ended the series. Not so much a novel as a very high level rehash of the first 5 volumes but from the point of view of the 'Tyrant's' sister - just dips in and out outlining some key events rather than getting into a full flow with big jumps in timeline etc. Truly awful both in terms of the quality of the writing and the rather disturbing sexual scenes (incest and under-age etc). There were increasing elements of this in Anthony's writing as his career progressed but much of it passed me by when reading his earlier books as a teen but coming back to it now / picking up some later volumes (this, some of the later Xanth ones etc) it's really noticeable and...icky.
I thought the first two were really good, but the next couple I tried were IMO far inferior and lost interest. Does it pick back up later?I also read most of the Xanth series but got tired after book 50 or so. (exaggerating)
Already read both. I haven't yet read the Tiffany Aching books, though.Don't read the next Discworld Watch book: " Snuff".
Not funny at all, no really interesting story. Like "Raising Steam", sadly, they were written at a time when Prachett was already in noticable mental decline.
It does pick back up later, if pedophilia is your thing.I thought the first two were really good, but the next couple I tried were IMO far inferior and lost interest. Does it pick back up later?
I remember Castle Roogna (#3) being quite adventurous but recall little after that.I thought the first two were really good, but the next couple I tried were IMO far inferior and lost interest. Does it pick back up later?
That got far worse later on. I remember at one point the characters encountering a messaging screen in a cave and it was called "Con Puter" or some such. Yeah, I just imagined PA sitting there at his desk casting around for something to write about and saying "What the hell."Maybe I should revisit then. I just seem to recall it didn't have the character development/etc the first two had...mostly just silly puns/plays on words.