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Is it worth sticking with the Dark Tower if I'm not completely into the Gunslinger? (self.stephenking)

submitted 1 year ago by hotwarioinyourarea to c/stephenking@lemmy.world

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I'm not saying I dislike it but I'm finding it hard to get through and it's incredibly short. I enjoyed the first chapter in Tull and I enjoyed the desert scenes but since then I've been finding it hard to focus on. I like the characters too but it just feels a bit... Boring in places?

Is the entire series like this?

Edit: I've now finished it and I'm reading 11.23.66 but not sure if I should read The Drawing Of The Three after.

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[–] AngusOReily@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The Dark Tower is a weird series for King in that a) it's more post apocalyptic sci-fi than it is horror and b) the books were written so far apart. If I remember correctly, King had a draft of The Gunslinger ready among his first manuscripts, but only finished the series like 30.years after he started. If you were to put the first and last books side by side, you'd be able to pick out plenty of places where King improved as an author.

I'll also say that the characters as written in The Gunslinger do leave something to be desired. I have t read the series in some time, but my recollection is they get better in book 2 but really improve by book 3.

So, if you like King and are a fan of extended universe stuff, I'd say stick with it as it gets closer to his more modern stuff as the series progresses.