It’s not the most subtle book I’ve ever read, but on the whole I enjoyed it.
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I totally agree, hard to believe Stephen King was even involved in this book. The absolute low point was the point where the policewoman (forgot her name) shoots the prisoner and then starts doubting herself whether she also would've shot her if the woman would've been a white woman. I kinda felt that the bazooka brothers were in the book to show us that only men are capable of such idiocy's, but who knows? I kinda failed to see the whole point of the book...
Oh yeah, men are bad and women are good...
Still a fan though, but this book was a miss for me...
I totally agree, hard to believe Stephen King was even involved in this book. The absolute low point was the point where the policewoman (forgot her name) shoots the prisoner and then starts doubting herself whether she also would've shot her if the woman would've been a white woman. I kinda felt that the bazooka brothers were in the book to show us that only men are capable of such idiocy's, but who knows? I kinda failed to see the whole point of the book...
Oh yeah, men are bad and women are good...
The strong point of Stephen books are, for me at lest, the fact that i am always totally involved with the characters, no matter how unbelieveble the circumstances are, i sort of become the character, that was totally lacking in Sleeping Beauties.
On a side note, i could explain all this a lot better in Dutch, but except for one or two other members nobody here would know what the hell i'm talking about...
Still a fan though, but this book was a miss for me...
Of course I`m stil a fan, this is just an opinion on a book.
And yes, that part annoyed me to no end, somebody really thinks like that?
If you kill someone by accident or misunderstanding, you are devastated ( if you have a conscience ) because you killed a human being, not a black or a white human being, you killed a person, that`s it.
Yeah, me too, in Serbian this would have been a lot more concise...but, it is what it is, I did my best.
I just finished Sleeping Beauties and I was very surprised and pleased at he ending. I started of very skeptical. I was seeing Invasion of the Body Snatchers with the politics and world in a microcosm as in UTD. As it went on it turned into it's own thing. Didn't like Lila's treatment of Clint. She was very unfair. He had a lot of issues she didn't let him deal with. I was very glad it didn't turn into men bad, women good. We all have our strenghts and weaknesses and vive la difference. Loved the ending.
I'm about a quarter into this book and loving it so far. Classic SK in my opinion; whether he, Owen or the man in the moon wrote it.
Right? Well, of course I always intended to read it (I read everything by SK) but honestly I was not enthusiastic about it and had forgotten it was even being released the day it came out. What a pleasant surprise it is!lol... I didn't think you were going to read it
Right? Well, of course I always intended to read it (I read everything by SK) but honestly I was not enthusiastic about it and had forgotten it was even being released the day it came out. What a pleasant surprise it is!
You may have to wait a while for me to finish. I take forever to read through a book these days.Cool I'm glad you're reading it because...
You already know the characters arn't very likable, and SK and Owen probably purposefully made them unlikable, so you'll be able to concentrate more on the story. I'm real curious as to what you think about the ending
I'm about halfway and i think it is good, not great but far from the clunkers he has produced. (Tommyknockers, good parts but a bad book) It is too long, too many sidestorys/backstorys for its own good so i think it would have been better at say 600 pages instead of 700. In this novel there are almost only grownups and alot of them. Each of them are described with good points and bad points so noone is an obviouschoice to root for. I think that was the intention. There is good and bad in everyone. With King, if you have a big cast as here, it can happen and is not a flaw in the novel. This novel is not herodriven but driven by the actions of this disease and the actions of the affected people. It has its weak points, some actions and thoughts by some people seem a little too much but that is more of a scratch in the vehicle, it does not stop the motor from going. That said i have still the second half to read so will see if it holds up.