Entertainment Quality of the Stories - Graded "A"
Entertainment Quality of the Stories - Graded "B"
Entertainment Quality of the Stories - Graded "C"
Memorability of the Stories - Graded "A"
Memorability of the Stories - Graded "B"
Memorability of the Stories - Graded "C"
Effectiveness of Plot Delivery in the Stories- Graded "A"
Effectiveness of Plot Delivery in the Stories - Graded "B"
Effectiveness of Plot Delivery in the Stories- Graded "C"
Never Read
Grading: Four Past Midnight
Four Past Midnight
Viking, 1990
Round 2, Group II
Grading for this Book is Closed
Entertainment Quality:
2.431372549 (Graded B)
Memorability:
2.294117647 (Graded B)
Plot Delivery:
2.274509804 (Graded B)
Overall Average Grade:
2.333333333 (Graded B)
Combined Round 1 & 2 scores:
6.19047619
Heng Dai
Straight As here! Early 90s King at his best, in my opinion. Quintessential tome.
B/A/B
Points taken off for The Sun Dog. Never cared for that one very much. The other three are excellent stories and if it were three past midnight, it'd get straight A's.
Never read it. I have it but I'm a terrible flyer. I'm scared that reading The Langoliers will make it even worse for me.
“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
I voted all A's on this book too. Some of SK's best short stories IMO.
The answer is within
all matter is energy, all energy is GOD
I gotta give it B's. Two good stories, two so-so stories. Kings worst effort for a collection in my opinion.
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
Still going to have to vote never read on this one, as I've only read one story. But I have to say that Secret Window, Secret Garden is one of my favorite novellas.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
Gave it all B's. Had it been only the Langoliers and SWSG, it would have gotten straight A's, however, if it had been only The Sun Dog and The Library Policeman, it would have gotten straight C's. So I had to go with the average.
All B's for me.
The Langoliers on it's own was a truly brilliant story and would have been straight A's.
All A's
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oooh, I loved the Sun Dog. Scared the crap out of me. I'm a camera nut (have the latest new ones plus some very old ones) and just the thought of one being infected in that way, and compulsive that I am, I'd not be able to put it down, I'd just have to keep snapping away to see what happened next....
The Langoliers is especially my favorite. And I like its movie, too.
Straight A's. I'm currently in the midst of a reread for this one, and I love it even more.
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
I've read The Langoliers and Secret Window, Secret Garden, but not the other two stories. Therefore I marked this one "Never Read".
"...that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." ~ Ray Bradbury
So off the record Patrick, did you like those two?
Hm, this one seems not to be doing so well. Too bad, it's one of my favorites. I couldn't put it down.
Heh. At the time.
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