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jimbowen0306's review against another edition
4.0
This book is genuinely pretty good. It sees women go to sleep, and get covered in webbing (a la the victims in Invasion of the Body Snatchers). Once covered, you can't rouse them, and if you try, they come over all psychopathic, before going back to sleep.
Once the women are asleep, society promptly falls apart (in less than a week if you can credit it), because men, of course, can't cope without women. The men realise there's something about one of the women that makes them suspicious, so of course they decide to act in a typically "man" way to get her to tell them what's what. Carnage ensues.
The women's mind are transported to a parallel world run by women. They create their society, and find out how life can be without men. I can't work out which stereotype irritates me more, the soft gentle women building a society from the get go, or the rapid disintegration of the men's world, once the women are gone.
This is a strange book. I've read The Fireman by Joe Hill (by one of King's other children), and the similarities between this book and that one has to make you think "Didn't they talk to one another before they wrote?" It's not only that book to which there are similarities. I've mentioned The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. But I was also reminded of elements of The Stand and Duma Key, which are both by King, and The Day the Earth Stood Still too. If you can get over the similarities, you'll enjoy the book. If you can't maybe not so much.
Once the women are asleep, society promptly falls apart (in less than a week if you can credit it), because men, of course, can't cope without women. The men realise there's something about one of the women that makes them suspicious, so of course they decide to act in a typically "man" way to get her to tell them what's what. Carnage ensues.
The women's mind are transported to a parallel world run by women. They create their society, and find out how life can be without men. I can't work out which stereotype irritates me more, the soft gentle women building a society from the get go, or the rapid disintegration of the men's world, once the women are gone.
This is a strange book. I've read The Fireman by Joe Hill (by one of King's other children), and the similarities between this book and that one has to make you think "Didn't they talk to one another before they wrote?" It's not only that book to which there are similarities. I've mentioned The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. But I was also reminded of elements of The Stand and Duma Key, which are both by King, and The Day the Earth Stood Still too. If you can get over the similarities, you'll enjoy the book. If you can't maybe not so much.
mbpartlow's review against another edition
4.0
If you like a big, rich Stephen King novel, you're going to enjoy this one.
I liked the premise and how it was carried out. However, in the last third of the book, the cast of characters felt unnecessarily large and unwieldy. Too many characters we'd met early coming back in to fulfill their roles, or additional characters added to round out the numbers.
Maybe I just don't read as attentively as I used to? But toward the big finish, I found it hard to keep track of some of the characters. When they enter that late in the game, I really don't need as much backstory for all them.
Still, a very good read.
I liked the premise and how it was carried out. However, in the last third of the book, the cast of characters felt unnecessarily large and unwieldy. Too many characters we'd met early coming back in to fulfill their roles, or additional characters added to round out the numbers.
Maybe I just don't read as attentively as I used to? But toward the big finish, I found it hard to keep track of some of the characters. When they enter that late in the game, I really don't need as much backstory for all them.
Still, a very good read.
anyarebekah's review against another edition
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
a_morrill's review against another edition
2.0
A long slog with a kind of interesting ending where nothing was really resolved.
ninasbooks57's review against another edition
5.0
Mr King has pulled us into his story with multiple shifts and surprises! Kept me on the edge of my seat right up to the end, and then...? I could do without so much crude language though!
vero_o's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Let me nap for 3 months 😋
itslorei's review against another edition
1.0
DNF
I have high expectations of this book, read the first 50 pages and I was done. The writing is very detailed and I felt like most of it are just extra and not needed at all.
I have high expectations of this book, read the first 50 pages and I was done. The writing is very detailed and I felt like most of it are just extra and not needed at all.
eccentric_kam's review against another edition
I bought this book years ago because the cover was pretty. Since then I have made multiple attempts to start it and just couldn't get into it. Honestly that should have been a sign. DNF'd at pg 365. I think there would be more fun in watching paint dry than trying to finish this book. There are too many characters to get invested in any of them. The most horrifying thing about this book is probably the way it will haunt me long after I've tossed it in the rubbish. The premise is the only interesting thing about this book. Everything else is just a bore.