I can only stomach King in small doses.
I just finished up Stephen King's Dark Tower series of books. I was more into this set of books than I've ever been any other. It's an amazing story. There are 7 books in the series, the first was written when he was 19 the last was written when he was 57.
As I was reading the books I kind of got a feeling that it was a lot like the show Lost. It had it's significant number (19) that could be seen in almost everything that happened, like Hurley's lottery numbers, it had a lot of the magic/creepy/heeby jeeby stuff like Lost, and lots of other similarities. I was also thinking what a great idea it would be to adopt it to a movie like The Lord Of The Rings was done. The story's so long it'd take several movies to tell the tale. Then I found on the net a while ago that the writers/producers of Lost have bought the rights from King (who would like to see it done as a movie) for $19. It also said that they began writing the script for the movie in February of this year.
Has anyone else read these books? If not, you should.
"There he goes, one of Gods own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die"
I can only stomach King in small doses.
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It's very un-King like. It started as his homage to LOTR. His main charactor (Roland Deschain) is based on Eastwood from The Man With No Name trilogy. He's a gunslinger (hence the first book The Gunslinger).
"There he goes, one of Gods own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die"
I have read ALOT of King (mostly in my younger years)
THe DarkTower books sort of tied most of his other books together and I loved the 1st 3 but starting with Wizard&Glass he lost me (Oh I could still follow the story but eaither he changed his mind about the direction of the story or my tastes changed not sure which) I did enjoy Wolves of the Calla but hated Song of Suzana(sp?) and was disapointed in the ending of Book 7 to me it just seemed like a copout but then King has NEVER been a strong book finisher
My fav King books were "IT" and "The Stand" and "The Green Mile" with The Stand being the only book he seemed to know how to finish LOL
I wasn't crazy about the ending of book 7 either. Luckily, I read the Coda part at the end that tied it up a little better but I still wasn't happy. I don't know what kind of ending you could dream up though that would make you happy. I really liked Wizard and Glass because that's when it started getting into some of the backstory of Roland with Alain, Cuthbert, and Susan. I might have changed the sequence of when that book fell though. I would have brought it in earlier, maybe before The Drawing of the Three.
"There he goes, one of Gods own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die"
I can agree with that too, W&G to me seemed to change the story between the 1st 3 book and the 2nd 3 books (Of course I liked WotC so it could be I hated book 6 which seemed rushed and did not like the ending to book 7 which in all honisty was setup to be a letdown due to the fact I read the 1st DT book way back in 90 and it was just not a 16 year payoff (I read the 7th book in 2006)
I have thought about finding the seres on Book on Tape online and lisening to them one after the other (I am not rereading all the books) to see if it ties things together better for me
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