Current Events > When does the Dark Tower git gud? *SPOILERS*

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Also, if you tell me to stop reading now because I won't like the rest, I'm still going to read it anyways because unless a book is horrible I'll usually finish it if I've heard enough buzz about it.

I just finished the first "part". He arrived in some town, banged some woman that King tried to depict as ugly, but you could tell she wasn't, then he gave this "big" woman, who was described as 300 lbs but attractive an abortion with his gun, then he killed every man woman and child in the town with his 6 shooters RE4 style.

Am I supposed to be rooting for this guy? He literally just butchered an entire town. Granted it was in self defense, but I don't have any clue of the scope of things or his motives. Seems like King didn't at this point either, hence why he keeps it so ambiguous.

It's all just very incoherent and chaotic, which can be fine for entertainment value. But people describe this series like it's Lord of the Rings or something. I haven't read Lord of the Rings, but I never got the impression it was like this. When does the series hit its stride? Is book 1 considered good?

tbh, I wasn't feeling the first book until close to the end, when he caught up with the Man in Black, and how the MiB started describing the Dark Tower.

but I think it starts getting really good with the second book - like, the writing feels more "direct", and less dreamy (it's been a while, but that's how a lot of the first book felt, to me), and is more action-packed.

books 2-4 are probably the most consistently good stretch, IMO, but the quality starts to dip a little in book 5, dips even more in book 6, and gets a little better in book 7.

and I say that as someone who has The Dark Tower as their overall favorite story.

Yeah I think it's overall worth reading. I really like 1-3. A lot of people really enjoy 4, but I didn't care much about the backstory. 5-7 definitely get extremely whacky and want you to have read a substantial chunk of other Stephen King books, but overall I enjoyed it.

Baron_Ox posted...

tbh, I wasn't feeling the first book until close to the end, when he caught up with the Man in Black, and how the MiB started describing the Dark Tower.

but I think it starts getting really good with the second book - like, the writing feels more "direct", and less dreamy (it's been a while, but that's how a lot of the first book felt, to me), and is more action-packed.

books 2-4 are probably the most consistently good stretch, IMO, but the quality starts to dip a little in book 5, dips even more in book 6, and gets a little better in book 7.

and I say that as someone who has The Dark Tower as their overall favorite story.

I pretty much agree with this.

It's all just very incoherent and chaotic

Wait until you read about the deadly shit weasels in The Dreamcatcher (it's not related, but is a King novel. FYI he was on drugs when he wrote this one)