Dolores Claiborne

[devious1]

is it just me, or does this book read ridiculously fast? i consider myself a fairly swift reader, for the time i am able to dedicate to reading anyway, and yet i seem to be flying through this book like nothing. i read my normal amount yesterday when i started to re-read it (only read it once, just after it came out) and somehow made it through over 200 pages! (normally in this time frame i read about 100 pages of a book). i don't know if it's just the way the story flows or what but the pages seem to be flying by fast!

also, for some reason i didn't like this book that much when i first read it but now am enjoying it immensely. that Dolores is quite a character

[La Belladonna]

is it just me, or does this book read ridiculously fast? i consider myself a fairly swift reader, for the time i am able to dedicate to reading anyway, and yet i seem to be flying through this book like nothing. i read my normal amount yesterday when i started to re-read it (only read it once, just after it came out) and somehow made it through over 200 pages! (normally in this time frame i read about 100 pages of a book). i don't know if it's just the way the story flows or what but the pages seem to be flying by fast!

also, for some reason i didn't like this book that much when i first read it but now am enjoying it immensely. that Dolores is quite a character

She is one of my absolute favorite King creations. She is one tough broad!

It is a fast read, and I also enjoyed it more on the second (and third) reading. It is story telling at its finest - and it is one character telling the whole story. Well done.

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

I enjoyed it infinitely more on the second read as well, and after seeing the movie.

Long days and pleasant nights

[Dark Reader]

I'm currently half way through reading Dolores Claiborne for the second time, i too didn't think much to this book when i first read it when i was a teenager but now i'm loving it, the character work and the narrative style is genius.

I can't remember how it ends either so i'm racing through it

[Wylde06]

At first it was kind of hard to start it. Probably because I had just finished Blaze and was still stuck in the story, but once I really got into it, I was done in 2-3 sittings (1-2 hours a sitting)

[Dark Reader]

What i am finding strange is the fact there are no chapters in this book, its continuous from start to finish, i've not come across a book like that before

[janeallyn]

My favorite line from that movie is........(sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold on to......) Oh and the look on his face when he's in the well and it dawns on him that he isn't coming out! Priceless.

[bopropadop]

I recommend the audiobook as well. Listened to much of it during my holiday travels last week and Frances Sternhagen's portrayal was better then I could have hoped.

[Agincourt Concierge]

Love Delores..and yes it is a quick read.....

Gotta love Vera....
For some reason.....I just identify w/both these women.....

Fav Vera quotes:

"I insist that all women who have hysterics in my drawing room call me by my Christian name. "

"It's a depressingly masculine world, Dolores."

" Sometimes you have to be a high-riding bitch to survive. Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto"

and this one by Delores is classic too.....

"If anyone is going to accuse me of killing my husband go right ahead and call me Dolores! "

Only SK could right a book about a woman 60 years old and make it so intriguing...it would suck you right in............LOL

[the_last_gunslinger]

Actually, I found it to be an unbearably slow read. It took me roughly two weeks to get through it. The concept was interesting, but it took so long for anything to happen, and when it did, I found it rather unremarkable.

It turned out being my least favorite King book, so that probably has something to do with why it took me so long to sludge through it, especially when I read it on the heels of the magnificent Duma Key.