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I've really wanted to get into Stephen King's Dark Tower series, and bought the first few books. I've never managed to make it through the first one, The Gunslinger, even though I've given it probably five or six attempts. I always make it to the same part in the book where Roland and the kid are using the hand-cart through the tunnels, and it just takes so. fucking. long. to get anywhere and for anything to happen, and my mind starts drifting as I'm reading and then I start missing things and have to go back... That section of the book is so frustratingly boring that I can't make it through.
Probably in part because of the time span over which it was written.
The entire first half of Salem's Lot is 95% just him going on random tangents about various townsfolk and it's excellent.
I heard from quinn's ideas is you have to be a pretty big reader of king's other works in order to read the dark tower.
That's pretty funny to me. I read the start of a King novel when I was probably too young for it (pretty sure it was It?), and just got bored with it. Never tried reading another for years. A decade or two later I tried the Dark Tower series and ended up binge-reading the first 5 books.
I really love those books, although I absolutely see their flaws and understand why people wouldn't like them.
Either way, I definitely don't think you need to be a Stephen King fan to enjoy them. I mean, I'm certainly not and I certainly did. Still haven't read any of his other works...
Be warned. There's some real.......racist choices made in the audiobook reading.
Definitely. I know it's kinda written that way but I was not ready for that old man to fully lean into it. I was perplexed and wanted to turn it off.
I listened through that over a decade ago and that's still what I remember most from that audiobook.
Some people just think everything is racist.
Took me about 3 attempts to finish the first book. Skip it if you can't finish it, that series is by far the best series I've ever read and nothing will top it
I've only attempted it once and can't remember much of it except for those fucking tunnels being the reason I gave up also
Funny, I absolutely loved this. The banality of evil. And good, too. Everything. The world is falling apart. Even the great evil is not, in the end, that great. Two old (REALLY old) men at the ragged ends of their lives trying to do this one last thing.
I mean, it does literally warn you to stop reading when the characters other than Roland get their happy ending, so if you kept going that's on you... /s
Also, it's thematic to the story at hand. It also ends hopefully, as Roland has the horn he did not have the first time through, which is implied to be incredibly important to his quest going well. We see the cycle right before victory, when he gets everyone else their happy endings and redeems his sins enough to earn the horn and, on the next cycle, likely end his quest. Which can be read as very hopeful, but your take isn't invalid or anything
When I finished reading that I audibly laughed and said “You stupid son of a bitch.” and I couldn’t tell if I was talking to myself or directing that at Steve.
I did really enjoy the series but I don’t think I’m going to be reading it again.