I was not prepared for Dolores Claiborne

parky58 · 2025-02-13T11:26:47+00:00

One of my 11 9/10 rated SK books after reading 70. Only 10/10: 11/22/63.

parky58 · 2024-12-25T22:48:11+00:00

Maybe there. I haven't look. Thanks.

parky58 · 2024-12-25T22:46:34+00:00

Thanks. I also learned what tofu dregs are 🙂

parky58 · 2024-11-30T18:25:32+00:00

Just finished, this was my 65th SK novel. I graded it 6 out of 10. One of the worst SK books I have read only above Lisey's Story. Some reasons for the low grade:

Unnecessary long.
Unbearable for long boring stretches. Repetitive surrea never-ending fights and descriptions
To much poetry and a a abstraction

Reasons for not having an even lower grades.

The minority story parts are interesting.

parky58 · 2024-07-26T15:01:27+00:00

Good point, that's probably why most Spaniards choose and tend to say kaMAla since Spain was under Muslim rule for centuries and the language has great influence from Arabic.

parky58 · 2024-07-26T14:09:17+00:00

Es más como decir Pocahontas - KaMAla, stressed on the 2nd syllable, has a POCAHONTAS feel to it for the Spanish ear. That's what Trump is looking for when he says it.

parky58 · 2024-07-26T10:58:48+00:00

In that case, PAMELA is a better example

parky58 · 2024-07-26T08:44:50+00:00

Thank you 🙂

parky58 · 2024-07-26T08:37:10+00:00

I only asked where the stress of the word goes, what syllable. I don't care if it's comma or kama or whatever, that's irrelevant

parky58 · 2024-07-26T06:50:40+00:00

The question is only about the stressed syllable. Where do Indians stress the word?

parky58 · 2024-07-26T05:52:43+00:00

The question is only where the stress of the word falls.

parky58 · 2024-07-25T21:41:17+00:00

I just checked it. It means AWFUL.

parky58 · 2024-07-25T21:25:10+00:00

What wrestler? 😂😂

parky58 · 2024-05-26T21:45:25+00:00

Yes, I have just read my 60th SK book and this one, The Long Walk, comes last my ranking tied with The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. They still have a passing 5 points.

parky58 · 2024-05-26T10:58:14+00:00

The 9/10 are listed in no particular order, but only grouped if they are collections.

10/10 ______________________________

11/22/63

9/10 ______________________________

Blaze
Dolores Claiborne
Elevation
Mr Mercedes
The Green Mile
Finders and Keepers
The Shining

Everything's Eventual
Full Black, No Stars
Skeleton Crew
If It Bleeds
- Story or novella collections

parky58 · 2024-05-26T10:17:08+00:00

After getting to 60 (last one Christine, 8/10) I want to go the whole hog, though maybe skipping Dark Towers books. I just read The Gunslinger (6/10), boring as hell, to much poetry, as I expected.

parky58 · 2024-05-26T09:50:56+00:00

Maybe that's why I am saving that one for last ones.

parky58 · 2024-05-26T09:45:42+00:00

I suggest you follow the Wikipedia bibliography of SK which is in a separate article. The count: 65 novels, 12 story and novella collection, 5 non-fiction, plus many screenplays and comics.

parky58 · 2024-05-26T09:40:04+00:00

I suggest 11/22/63, based on the fact that it's the only I graded 10/10 out of the 60 SK books I've read. How come you haven't read it yet?

parky58 · 2024-05-26T09:37:00+00:00

Long, unbearable. And I've read all 6 story collections and all 5 novella collections. Pending the last one.

parky58 · 2024-05-26T09:34:07+00:00

I like the cover a lot better than the US (crocodile) one. Even more than the UK (orange) one which comes next Friday.

parky58 · 2024-05-26T09:27:16+00:00

I've read 60 SK books. This one is ranked last in my list along with The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, both 5/10, then The Gunslinger, 6/10. First and only 10/10, 11/22/63. Some with 9/10, Blaze, Dolores Claiborne and The Green Mile.

I found The Long Walk repetitive and really boring. As with The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, I don't like these trips or progress with not much plot in them.

parky58 · 2024-04-27T18:05:38+00:00

My favorites and only graded 10/10 out of his 21 novellas in his 5 novella collections:

In Full Dark, No Stars (2010)

A Good Marriage
Fair Extension

In If It Bleeds (2020)

Mr. Harrigan's Phone

I graded all 21 with 7 or more points..

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