• Subverb@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”

    Love that book. There’s some sad sex in it and a very unsympathetic preacher, but overall pretty tame by King standards.

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      2 months ago

      I absolutely loved the entire series. I miss Eddie and Susannah, and I want to reread it again now.

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        2 months ago

        Everything after Wizard and Glass doesn’t exist.

        Cut my teeth on King, but he ruined his magnum opus in his rush to complete when confronted by his own mortality. It has some good moments, there are interesting bones in the structure, but he ruined it in the last few books.

        This opinion formed after reading the entire series twice, and the first 3-4 books many more times.

        It makes me happiest to view it as an incomplete series.

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          2 months ago

          I respect your view. A few weeks back I was complaining that I hated reading the Dune series. I enjoy the story and having read it, but I really hate reading it. Somebody told me they felt the same way but about the Dark Tower. Different strokes and all that, but I loved every moment of the whole series including how the tone changed after his accident.

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            2 months ago

            See, I don’t know how many times I’ve read the Dune series. It’s probably my favorite series and rewards rereading. (Not counting the crap his son and Kevin Anderson put out.)

            Different strokes for sure.