I don't often give up on books, but this book was terrible. I stopped about 1/2 way through.
What do people see in this series?
Thankfully, I'm now enjoying "Weaveworld" by Barker, whose never let me down.
Posted by xardoz (Member # 4528) on :
I HATED this book. I think King just stopped giving a damn and sh*t this one out to cover some medical bills.
Even worse, IMHO, was his rewrite of the original Gunslinger to bring it more in line with the last three Dark Tower volumes.
Don't bother finishing The Dark Tower. The ending is disappointing, but makes a certain amount of sense. The setup for the ending, though, is total crap. In his afterword, King attempts to pass off his piss-poor final volume with the admonition to his readers that "the journey is more important than the destination." There is some truth to this, but when the travel agent says you're going on an around the world luxury cruise with Hawaii as the final destination, but you end up spending the last week in the bilges of a leaky freighter that's hauling rotten meat and human waste only to wind up in East St. Louis, it takes a damn fine journey to make up for the disappointment.
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Posted by rcorporon (Member # 2879) on :
I didn't even get to the 7th book. I meant "The Gunslinger." I got 1/2 through that one and stopped. I was reading the "re-written" one.
Posted by Kazuo (Member # 5374) on :
I agree. I read the first book wanted to believe, but it wandered aimlessly (like the main character in the desert) without purpose. I finished the first, thinking it would get better in the second, but I put that one down after 15 pages, and never bothered picking it up again.