This was the only King novel that I thought absolutely SUCKED, even after reading it a second time thinking I may have missed something. I didn't. And this is coming from a Tommyknockers apologist.
And a personal insult? This movie epitomizes something I deal with at least three times a week for the last half-century, where the protagonist pronounces his last name for everyone’s benefit repeatedly, but everyone else mispronounces it because they can’t be bothered. (The only time I’ve ever heard my surname pronounced correctly and consistenly in a dramatic presentation was for the “Dinosaurs on a Spaceship” episode of “Doctor Who.”)
I like how in Black Panther 2 they explain that Namor is short for "no amor" and he consistently pronounces it "nuhMOR" but everybody else says "NAYmor" even though they've never seen it written, they've only heard him say it.
But how many STARS do you give it? I'm sorry, I still need a star rating. Sometimes you write a pan so searing that I expect you to give it one star or possibly even fewer, but then you surprise me by giving it 1.5.
This was the only King novel that I thought absolutely SUCKED, even after reading it a second time thinking I may have missed something. I didn't. And this is coming from a Tommyknockers apologist.
And a personal insult? This movie epitomizes something I deal with at least three times a week for the last half-century, where the protagonist pronounces his last name for everyone’s benefit repeatedly, but everyone else mispronounces it because they can’t be bothered. (The only time I’ve ever heard my surname pronounced correctly and consistenly in a dramatic presentation was for the “Dinosaurs on a Spaceship” episode of “Doctor Who.”)
I like how in Black Panther 2 they explain that Namor is short for "no amor" and he consistently pronounces it "nuhMOR" but everybody else says "NAYmor" even though they've never seen it written, they've only heard him say it.
But how many STARS do you give it? I'm sorry, I still need a star rating. Sometimes you write a pan so searing that I expect you to give it one star or possibly even fewer, but then you surprise me by giving it 1.5.
Accurate.