Interstellar_1 to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 months agoWhat is the worst experience you've had reading a book?message-squaremessage-square185fedilinkarrow-up1143
arrow-up1143message-squareWhat is the worst experience you've had reading a book?Interstellar_1 to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square185fedilink
minus-squaretacosanonymous@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up16·2 months agoI honestly despise King’s longer novels. The Dark Tower series is the epitome of his inability to stay focused and well paced. It’s like he set a goal of some ridiculous book length, thought he needed a bunch of padding to get there, hit the mark and abruptly ends it. Give me Salem’s Lot, Carrie, Pet Semetary, etc all day but I can’t with Dark Tower.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 months agoWhich is weird because the first book is just a collection of short stories, it’s not even a single narrative and IIRC is under 300 pages? (checks notes) 216 pages. 224 with the Afterword.
I honestly despise King’s longer novels. The Dark Tower series is the epitome of his inability to stay focused and well paced.
It’s like he set a goal of some ridiculous book length, thought he needed a bunch of padding to get there, hit the mark and abruptly ends it.
Give me Salem’s Lot, Carrie, Pet Semetary, etc all day but I can’t with Dark Tower.
Which is weird because the first book is just a collection of short stories, it’s not even a single narrative and IIRC is under 300 pages?
(checks notes)
216 pages. 224 with the Afterword.