Giu

Precise rating: 4.5 ⭐

Great, great, great! Still extremely intriguing despite me already knowing most of the story. Martin simply knows what he's doing.

Precise rating: 4.5 ⭐

One of King's most exciting books! So much time has passed since I read it, though. Maybe I should read it again soon ...

Precise rating: 4.5 ⭐

It was a great idea to read (well, listen to) these books again – I forgot how bombastically this series starts. Martin really is a brilliant writer!

Gave up at 56%.

I read the summary of the next two chapters and decided there's no point in continuing (for now). It's alright, I like the characters, but it's also quite boring. Things happen, but nothing really drives the plot forward. So yeah, Gaiman lost me on this one. Maybe I like another one of his better.

Precise rating: 3.5 ⭐

As an audiobook it was very entertaining. I can imagine it to be a bit slow at times had I read it myself. The ending was very King-esque: kinda random and anticlimactic.

I felt like the story lost a lot of weight due to the fact that people were basically in a trance when doing the pranks for Gaunt. It wasn't really about how far people would go to fulfil their hearts' desire. Though the ending felt like exactly that was what King intended the story to be. And it just wasn't.

So instead of a deep story criticising consumerism or whatever – which it could've been – it was just a pulpy, entertaning novel. That's fine, I like that, but let's drop the pretence, I'd say. ^^