So, seems like The Dark Tower should of stayed closed

[happyninja42]

I wouldn't bother finishing the series. It's not very good. Especially the last half of it. I can't remember which book it was, (The one that focused entirely on a flashback of a young Roland and his first love). That book got really fucking old quick, with how often King had to type out "If they'd only known what was to come, they would've acted differently" type bullshit. I get it Stephen, their idyllic life ended tragically, we fucking know this because we see Roland as an adult and he's a Tortured Soul Loner archetype. I FUCKING GET IT! MOVE ON WITH THE STORY ALREADY!! ....oh, nope, you're going to exposition for another 400 fucking pages? Great.

Heh, as it happens that's exactly the part I'm at... and yeah, I plowed right through The Drawing of the Three and The Waste Lands, but this one has been something of a slog thus far. I was also kinda hoping he would be done with the young Roland stuff sooner rather than later (what I got of his background in the first book was more than enough), but then I peeked ahead and it is, more or less, the next three quarters of the book.

Still... I'm too much of an obsessive completist not to go all the way now.

I wish you luck, and hope you enjoy the last set of books more than I did. I finished the series as well, but for me, it lost all of the momentum that the first 3 books had. Now, to be fair, that was the point in the series where he got hit by a fucking truck, seriously injured, almost died, and spent years in therapy and rehab to recover. And didn't pick up the series for like...20 years I think? It's not a surprise that the book had a different feel to it, given that much time, and that much happening to him....still didn't mean it was enjoyable to read. xD

The other books had some moments that I enjoyed, and I remember one particular scene in I think the next to last book that was just fucking awesome. But the ratio of "slog" pages to "awesome" pages was too high for my tastes. Others have loved it, and that's great, personally, I lost interest after book 3

 

[KissingSunlight]

I saw the movie. It was my second choice. It was OK. I like Matthew McConaughey as the very chill villain. Even though, I felt his character was too overpowered. Idris Elba was good. He wasn't given much to work with though. Overall, it was a solid fantasy action movie. Nothing to be excited about or to hate.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Somebody clarify this to me, because I'm seeing a lot of it lately - people that write "should of" instead of "should have" or "should've" are doing it on purpose or what?

 

[RedRockRun]

Truth be told, I can't think of anyone who has read the entire series and been glad they did so. I got sick and bored of it by book four.

 

[TrulyBritish]

Somebody clarify this to me, because I'm seeing a lot of it lately - people that write "should of" instead of "should have" or "should've" are doing it on purpose or what?

People are dumb sometimes, they should of really been more attentive in class.

 

[FalloutJack]

The problem with this is that this is...what? Eight books? Eight books and it's considerably dry, even in King's own retrospect. Then, you've got all the differing opinions from people as to whether or not it's great or terrible, and there are definitely such tug-of-wars going on. The only real hope it would have is of making a SHOW, sort of like Under The Dome.

EDIT:

Truth be told, I can't think of anyone who has read the entire series and been glad they did so. I got sick and bored of it by book four.

Funnily enough, I have read them all, and for good reasons.

{1} I was borrowing them from my cousin, so I did not have to pay for them.

{2} I DO like a number of King books and was curious about it.

{3} A story about 'a world that's moved on' is kind of Fallout-ish, which you would agree appeals to the likes of me.

Now, problems walking in, of course. People had told me about the very end, first off. I didn't really care if they had, and there was no context anyway, but I knew going in that the end was kind of 'Ehhh'. But then, so was Under The Dome, despite the fact that I liked Under The Dome. The first book is a dry read, and this is because this is early on in his writing career. Things just don't get that interesting until the second book, to be honest. The books from two on were fairly entertaining to me as an off-and-on read. However, some of the characters were flat and stale, and the very last book of the series rendered the entire point of the prior book utterly irrelevent in one stroke. Since you haven't wanted to read the rest of 'em, I'll spare you the details and say that if you've going to spend an entire book building something up, it needs a proper resolution worth having. That's all.

 

[RedRockRun]

@FalloutJack

I liked the world but got bored of the walking. I think it was the end of book three where they spot that crystal palace, or maybe it's the beginning of book four, but everything had gotten to feel so much like a linear video game: just walking forward and going to different levels, the rhythm - repetitive as it was - broken by flashbacks I wasn't particularly interested in.

 

[Dalisclock]

I wouldn't bother finishing the series. It's not very good. Especially the last half of it. I can't remember which book it was, (The one that focused entirely on a flashback of a young Roland and his first love). That book got really fucking old quick, with how often King had to type out "If they'd only known what was to come, they would've acted differently" type bullshit. I get it Stephen, their idyllic life ended tragically, we fucking know this because we see Roland as an adult and he's a Tortured Soul Loner archetype. I FUCKING GET IT! MOVE ON WITH THE STORY ALREADY!! ....oh, nope, you're going to exposition for another 400 fucking pages? Great.

Heh, as it happens that's exactly the part I'm at... and yeah, I plowed right through The Drawing of the Three and The Waste Lands, but this one has been something of a slog thus far. I was also kinda hoping he would be done with the young Roland stuff sooner rather than later (what I got of his background in the first book was more than enough), but then I peeked ahead and it is, more or less, the next three quarters of the book.

Still... I'm too much of an obsessive completist not to go all the way now.

I wish you luck, and hope you enjoy the last set of books more than I did. I finished the series as well, but for me, it lost all of the momentum that the first 3 books had. Now, to be fair, that was the point in the series where he got hit by a fucking truck, seriously injured, almost died, and spent years in therapy and rehab to recover. And didn't pick up the series for like...20 years I think? It's not a surprise that the book had a different feel to it, given that much time, and that much happening to him....still didn't mean it was enjoyable to read. xD

The other books had some moments that I enjoyed, and I remember one particular scene in I think the next to last book that was just fucking awesome. But the ratio of "slog" pages to "awesome" pages was too high for my tastes. Others have loved it, and that's great, personally, I lost interest after book 3

IIRC, He was procrastinating(which kind of explains why Wizard and Glass doesn't really go anywhere) and once he got hit by the van, he decided to just get off his ass and finish writing the series before something else actually did him in. In the books, it's literally depicted as Fate/Ka getting sick of his dithering BS and deciding he needed to die. Due to a series of wierd events, the van meant to kill him only badly injures him(someone else gets the brunt of the impact and dies instead).

Personally, I like to think it was Fate getting back at him for wasting everyone's time in Wizard and Glass. "Now, the next one should be better or the next time it's a truck."