Joanne S

Meh

Revisado: 07-28-24

Meh. It wasn’t a bad book but I won’t remember it in five years either.

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Unearned last page twist

Revisado: 07-07-21

Would have given it 5 stars were it not for the completely out of left field twist at the very end. Overall, it's an enjoyable enough, though unoriginal, psychological thriller, but you really have to earn a twist that big, and this book just didn't.

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Truly entertaining

Revisado: 01-08-20

Of all the Holmes fiction out there, these books are the best short of Doyle.

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Terrible story of generational parental neglect

Revisado: 11-04-19

It's a very interesting story, but everyone in it comes of as a bad parent. There's a father who's seemingly just a monster, a mother whose response to losing her children is literally "well, I was so young, I could just go start a new family so it all worked out," and children who are so damaged by their experiences that, in hints and unspoken insinuations, they seem to be terrible parents themselves. I just can't imagine having so little regard for your children. Heartbreaking.

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Not King's best. You can tell he deep in addiction

Revisado: 09-27-19

Really glad he was able turn his life around. This is written by a man haunted by his addiction and projecting it outwards on everyone.

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Reminds me of old Stephen King

Revisado: 09-14-19

This book is outstanding - easily King's best work since 11/22/63 - but more broadly it reminds me of the... I guess, "special" feeling of King's earlier works, like Christine or The Dead Zone or Firestarter, the book this most closely resembles. It feels like an event, like something that will become shorthand in the cultural lexicon, like Cujo or Jack Torrance. This is a great book. I hope King has some more like this left in him.

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This is the worst book I have ever read.

Revisado: 07-22-19

I don't even know where to begin with how terrible this book is. The performance is atrocious, almost as if someone were reading the back of a cereal box. At a certain point, I began to think that the narrator was intentionally making the reading terrible, as a way of insulting this terrible, terrible story. the author has no idea how fiction works. none of the characters have any depth, people take actions for no reason whatsoever, the author has little command of the English language, and in general this appears to be a 7th grade English class assignment. Do not waste your time reading or listening to this trash.

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This narrator is atrocious

Revisado: 07-16-19

Engaging book that makes enjoyable reading of history, but this narrator's voice is essentially unlistenable. Everyone I played this for agreed that they could never listen to anything narrated by him.

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Truly amazing.

Revisado: 12-09-18

I've listened to a lot of Great Courses lectures, but this one has by far the most engaged, integrated professor, who genuinely enjoys taking about the subject and getting the listener interested in it.

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Great twist, not much else

Revisado: 10-08-18

Halfway through this book, you'll run into one of the best twists you'll ever see in any novel. Amazingly executed, and makes you want to go back and read everything before with new knowledge. Unfortunately, the book has little else to recommend it, as the story is very routine and unoriginal, the characters are stock charicatures, and they'd nothing really compelling about anything else going on. But, oh man, that twist...

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