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Community Thoughts:  Posted By: Tracie W. - February 7th, 2012 12:27:27 pm EST If you have the chance, listen to this on audiobook. Frances Sternhagen brings the entire book to life. Kathy Bates and the movie version pales in comparison to the audiobook reading. Posted By: Scott Wilson - January 31st, 2012 6:16:33 pm EST This novel is one of my absolute favorite books of all time. Its written with such care and the plot is stunning, the characters come to life right off the page and it doesn't get side-tracked and pull itself off plot like some other stories. This book can be funny (some of the stories Dolores tells about working for Vera) and intense (most of the novel!) at the same time - King has the rare and outstanding ability to make describe situations so vividly that it makes his audience feel apart of it and feel everything the characters are feeling. While it may take a few pages to get into because of the different style of writing that most probably haven't experienced before, once you do get deep into it, you wont put it down and nor will you ever want to! It's the perfect length and gets everything sorted at the end, giving you all of the answers to your questions and leaving nothing left undone. After MISERY, this was the first King book I properly read and it made me NEED to read more of his work. Thanks for this Completely stunning, magnificent and astounding book - It'll be on my top recommends list forever. 10/10 Scott. Posted By: Yagerdog - January 8th, 2012 11:59:16 pm EST The first book I've ever read where it benefited from having seen the movie first. Not for the sake of the plot or to help carry the storyline through, but for the simple sake that Kathy Bates is such a dominating character that envisioning her as Dolores makes it all work that much more. Enjoyed the book cover to cover. Posted By: TMJ - August 17th, 2011 8:10:54 pm EDT I am in the middle of Dolores Claiborne and I love it, also. I just read Peyton Place by Grace Metalious, a NH author who was a good writer and died young. (Her book is nothing like the movie or TV series). It raised some taboo issues that were not talked about in the 50's/60's. Some of her characters are in Dolores Claiborne. I read somewhere that KIng meant it as a tribute to Peyton Place. Selena is in there ! Posted By: Frank - August 3rd, 2011 2:58:04 pm EDT I am about 2/3 of the way through this book, and I love it! The character development and the way Mr. King presents the story (through the first-hand "confession" of Dolores) is simply outstanding! Since I still have a little less than 1/3 of the book to read, maybe I haven't gotten to the "tie-in" yet (or maybe I'm just dense :-) but I don't see the tie-in with Gerald's Game More Thoughts » |
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