Strength of Plot -- Graded "A"
Strength of Plot -- Graded "B"
Strength of Plot -- Graded "C"
Character Development -- Graded "A"
Character Development -- Graded "B"
Character Development -- Graded "C"
Quality of the Story's Ending -- Graded "A"
Quality of the Story's Ending -- Graded "B"
Quality of the Story's Ending -- Graded "C"
Never Read
Grading: IT
IT
Viking, 1986
Round 2, Group II
Grading for this Book is Closed
Strength of Plot:
2.870588235 (Graded A)
Character Development:
2.929411765 (Graded A)
Quality of Ending:
2.576470588 (Graded B+)
Overall Average Grade:
2.792156863 (Graded A)
Combined Round 1 & 2 scores:
7.487809036
Heng Dai
I said B, A, A.
I gave the B only because parts of the book weren't enough to keep my totally engrossed. It's not that often that my mind starts to wander while reading.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”-Mark Twain
Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me....Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
-Shel Silverstein
A, A, and A!!!!!! If there was any better grade, I would have given it.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
faaaaaavorite....
you're solid gold // i'll see you in hell
Never Read. Yet.
Straight A's. This is one of the books against which I judge all other King.
All A's here too. GREAT book!!!
The answer is within
all matter is energy, all energy is GOD
Straight A's. My favorite Stephen King story and the canon by which all others are measured. This book is sheer genius and really conveys the depth of King's imaginary prowess. I had no choice, but to go every place this book was willing to take me. I've never read anything like it.
Of course. I was held captive by this book. Its the only way to explain being able to endure Stanley's death or the gang bang.Originally Posted by Brice
The sewer???
A's across the board! This is a momumentous tale worthy of the stories of Odysseus, Beowulf, and any other epic in the history of writing.
Margaret Emmie Mackey Catoe, you are, have been, and always will be my soulmate, and I love you.
Con todo mi corazon, por todo de mis dias. And I always will, in this life and into the next.
August 2, 1947 - September 24, 2010
All A's, and if I could have given it more I would have. Hands down this is my favorite book of all time. It doesn't get any better than this.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
love all around for me except forSpoiler:
This and The Stand are neck and neck outside of The Dark Tower for me.
Lalalalaaaa, lalalalaaa
Lalalalaaaa, lalalalaaa
sugarpop <3
All A's, this book has the best character development of any novel I have ever read. I felt like I knew these characters by the end. I was so in love with these characters that what Maerlyn mentions above, didnt even bother me, in fact it seemed almost the only way to unify the group in that perfect way. I mean, its not as if Beverly was not a willing participant. And they were all in love with her, and her with them so completely that at the time I read it, (admittedly very young) it almost seemed natural.
Pablo, Dont waste time reading anything else until you have read this book!
I concur completely. Reading and especially ranking any other King without having read It is fundamentally flawed. It is the epitome of what King is capable of and I cannot help but judge every other one of his books against it.
Straight A's from me as well. A really great Book.
All A's.
Sheer brilliance, this book is.
I surely will, no doubt.I concur completely. Reading and especially ranking any other King without having read It is fundamentally flawed. It is the epitome of what King is capable of and I cannot help but judge every other one of his books against it.
But that's flawed logic, ranking all books against another. Each should be rated on its own merit and nothing else, in my opinion.
Actually the guy who invented logic would disagree with you. Aristotle poses Oedipus Rex as the perfected form of tragedy in order to discuss the topics in his Poetics. Offering an example of your premise in order to objectify your opinions and respond to rebuttal is a key aspect of inductive logic.I surely will, no doubt.I concur completely. Reading and especially ranking any other King without having read It is fundamentally flawed. It is the epitome of what King is capable of and I cannot help but judge every other one of his books against it.
But that's flawed logic, ranking all books against another. Each should be rated on its own merit and nothing else, in my opinion.
You know I haven't had a reread this book in four years. :O
I think it is time to add it to the list.
Lalalalaaaa, lalalalaaa
Lalalalaaaa, lalalalaaa
sugarpop <3
don't forget to mark spoilers, please.
A true firewasp ninja would never wear such a ridiculous sweater.
There's logic in nonsense.
Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.
Not trying to be picky here, but Aristotle did not invent logic. He fathered Aristotelian logic. While he may have made popular that particular act of logical discourse and argument, logic was practiced by other cultures as well. Pablo's contention that a book should be rated on its own merits is not illogical. In fact, I would say that this topic could even be a completely new thread, as the subject may be interesting to a lot of people.Actually the guy who invented logic would disagree with you. Aristotle poses Oedipus Rex as the perfected form of tragedy in order to discuss the topics in his Poetics. Offering an example of your premise in order to objectify your opinions and respond to rebuttal is a key aspect of inductive logic.I surely will, no doubt.I concur completely. Reading and especially ranking any other King without having read It is fundamentally flawed. It is the epitome of what King is capable of and I cannot help but judge every other one of his books against it.
But that's flawed logic, ranking all books against another. Each should be rated on its own merit and nothing else, in my opinion.
A true firewasp ninja would never wear such a ridiculous sweater.
There's logic in nonsense.
Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.
I'd be interested in that discussion. I'm not sure I'd categorize Pablo's method as illogical either, but I'm also not sure when judging something on its own merit we aren't, at least subconsciously, still judging against something else.
Let's take "character development" for example. When we judge this, there still must exist somewhere in our minds an example of what good character development looks like even if we aren't consciously thinking "are the characters developed as well as they are in It?" Does that make sense? What I'm trying to say is that criteria don't just arise arbitrarily from the Prim.
Logic was practiced by other cultures? I never thought of that. Other philosophers besides Aristotle? Never thought of that either.Not trying to be picky here, but Aristotle did not invent logic. He fathered Aristotelian logic. While he may have made popular that particular act of logical discourse and argument, logic was practiced by other cultures as well. Pablo's contention that a book should be rated on its own merits is not illogical. In fact, I would say that this topic could even be a completely new thread, as the subject may be interesting to a lot of people.Actually the guy who invented logic would disagree with you. Aristotle poses Oedipus Rex as the perfected form of tragedy in order to discuss the topics in his Poetics. Offering an example of your premise in order to objectify your opinions and respond to rebuttal is a key aspect of inductive logic.I surely will, no doubt.I concur completely. Reading and especially ranking any other King without having read It is fundamentally flawed. It is the epitome of what King is capable of and I cannot help but judge every other one of his books against it.
But that's flawed logic, ranking all books against another. Each should be rated on its own merit and nothing else, in my opinion.
One of the earliest examples I know of is the tetralemma, a feature of Indian formal logic that arose from a portion of the Rigveda.
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