Have you ever read a book so fast that you know you're missing things, but you can't slow down because it's dragging you along? That was me with this book.
Have you ever read a book so fast that you know you're missing things, but you can't slow down because it's dragging you along? That was me with this book.
Wow!! It took me a little while to get into this book - to figure out the players - but it was well worth the effort! A serious rollercoaster of impulses and motivations. Such a surprise.
Loved it. Such complicated characters. They were so believable.
So this was my second Book of the Month Club offering. It took me three months to finish the first, but it ended better than it started. I have been reading this one since June (it's now November) and I just have no motivation to finish. I don't care about the characters. At. All. It is well -written, but for me, story is everything. And I have zero desire to continue this one. This book has beaten me. But now I'll move on to better things.
Ok, I have a real problem with this book. The killer in a mystery novel should never be someone you have no way of ever guessing - a character who is only introduced in the very end. You should be able to put the clues together. This book just threw in some rando at the end. Grrrr!
Wow! I didn't see that coming at all. This book kept me guessing until the end.
I thought this was fantastic. It made me want to read some of the non-fiction works she listed in the acknowledgment section and I rarely read non-fiction. It was just so fascinating.
I liked this book up until the ending. I just don't like ambiguous endings. Tell me the complete story.
I really liked this book. I had no idea who the killer was until the author revealed it. I love it when a story surprises me.
I'm sitting in an airport in Charlotte, waiting for my connecting flight. I was going to start reading this book but the spelling snob in me can't get past this. . .
Look who else likes getting boxes from #BookOfTheMonthClub #Trouble
This book is only about 330 pages, but it took me almost two months to read. The first half is really boring, except for the excerpts from documents. By the time it reached the point, it was interesting, but it took sooooooo looooooong to get to the interesting stuff.
Two things: 1. I honest to God don't remember ordering this as my May #BOTM selection, and 2. @BrainyHeroine when are they going to start sending me happy little personalized notes?
Stephen King is one of my favorite authors. And for most of this book, he held my attention with his fantastic character development. But the end of the book petered out - he has this problem where he doesn't seem to know how to end long novels and while I was able to forgive the ending of IT, I couldn't forgive the ending of this one. It felt like a rehashed Twilight Zone episode.
This is one of my all-time favorite books. I have read it every summer since I was 16. I always learn something new.
There were parts about this book that I really liked and others that made it feel like a chore to read. Every time it went to the letters, because it was in "Ye Olde English" it was hard to understand and really slowed down the plot.
Loved it. It was a novel way to write a zombie story. I thought the ending was great.
Great read. Such an all-enveloping story. I couldn't put it down.
I haven't read this book for 25 years. I am rereading it and had forgotten how frightening it is - how democracy can so easily die.