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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > Stephen King: Beep Beep, Jealous Cow
 
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The Saddest Robot
Apr 17, 2007
 Easily Dreamcatcher. The novel was poo poo through and through. The Dark Tower books after The Wizard and Glass vary from disappointing to bad but I didn't think they were awful on the level that Dreamcatcher was.

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The Saddest Robot
Apr 17, 2007
 Lisey's Story is a smucking bad-gunky pile of bool.

* # ¿ Apr 13, 2010 22:15
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The Saddest Robot
Apr 17, 2007

cheerfullydrab posted:

I finished Lisey's Story.

I'm left without an understanding of the strong hatred for it. It's not great, it's not bad. The made up words are particularly annoying but definitely not as stupid as the stuff in the later Dark Tower books. The plot is nowhere near as stupid as Cell. Lisey's feelings for the absent Scott are affecting in the same way that the sadness of Ralph in Insomnia and Mike in Bag of Bones were. You can't deny that King does a good job writing about missing a dead spouse.

I think the problem with Lisey's story (aside from the annoying words) is that it meanders. It takes forever to build up any sort of momentum and go anywhere.

When it actually does start moving it gets pretty drat interesting.

* # ¿ Apr 20, 2010 20:48
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The Saddest Robot
Apr 17, 2007
 Only if his son publishes under his own psuedonym, and King is writing as Richard Bachman.

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The Saddest Robot
Apr 17, 2007
 I smucking hate it when King overdoes that.

Though some dark, terrible part of me wonders what a Stephen King novel where every character spoke in repetitive catch phrases and every chapter begins or ends (or both) with a tired cliche. A parody of King, written by King.

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