Has anyone ever read The Dark Tower series by Stephen King?

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What is your opinion of these books? I just started the first one.
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Happy 4th!
 
THEY ROCK!!

I listened to The Gun Slinger years and years ago when I was doing data entry and needed something to keep my mind from turning to mush. The awesome thing about that was that I listened to the first 3 books and they were all read by Stephen King!

I think then I waited for the 4th to come out and it seemed like forever and I forgot about it until I was helping my cousin move and he had the 4th book!

So I re-read the first 3 and got the 4th from the library.

Then King had that accident and my mind was screaming - no you canā€™t die until you finish the story!

Well apparently it freaked him too because he ended up writing the remaing 3 all at once. He even went back and revised the first 4.

Well I got to probably within 100 pages of the end of ā€˜the endā€™ and I had a death in the family - so I put it down and havenā€™t picked it up yet. That was like 6 months ago.

I feel like I have to be ready to finish it. So I wait.

Enjoyā€¦

- The man in black fled across the desert
 
Man, I read the first one and for some reason I just couldnā€™t get into it!

Iā€™ve talked to SO many people who have the exact same reaction as Dandelion_Wine. So as a SK fan, I ran out and bought the series when he finally finished them.

(I canā€™t stand to be hanging in the balance- especially with SK stories. I read his Green Mile series as they came out, and the wait between stories drove me CRAZY!!)

Anyhoo, I bought the series and read the first one- and just canā€™t get into the second one enough to keep at it. Thatā€™s one thing with SK novels, you gotta keep at them, or you loose your place and the story starts to fall apart. (For me, that is.)

So I guess youā€™ve inspired me to read the first one again to see if it gets my creative SK juices flowinā€™ againā€¦

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Read 'em all and loved every one. šŸ‘ Some were hard to get into, but the slow parts always have something to do with the story later on. Wonā€™t give it away here, but the end of the last book is very interesting. It has provked a wide range of feelings among those who read them all. ā€”Keep reading!
 
i have read the first, ā€œthe gunslingerā€ and i am waiting to acquire the rest. stephen king is a writer of great depth. destined to become classical, i think.
 
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ā€¦stephen king is a writer of great depth. destined to become classical, i think.
ITA

Heā€™s the only author I know of that can make you laugh out loud, cry and scare you within an inch of your life in the space of a paragraph.

Truly talented.
 
Very dark. And towering.

A good series up until the last. The ending was very anti-climatic and the Stephen King cameos were corny.
 
Dandelion Wine & I may be;) related! My first reaction when I heard about Kingā€™s accident was, ā€œIf he dies before he finishes the Dark Tower books, I am going to :whacky: kill him!ā€
I loved them. You not only tie together all the previous Dark Tower books, you find the interconnections between his other books! Great readingā€¦Enjoy!!
 
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