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You should definitely not skip the first Dark Tower, it’s one of the best ones. Your friend is a crazy person, no offense.
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BiggerBoat posted:Check out this dude right here who never read [b]the regulators /b]
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Jul 8, 2023 17:33
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Absolutely do not skip The Gunslinger.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:My friend recommended I read the Dark Tower series next but also that I should skip the first novel as it's kinda ehhh college age King. He said I wouldn't really miss anything. yall agree? discontinue all contact with this person immediately. Especially if they're talking about the pre-revision version.
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Jul 8, 2023 21:06
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That is crazy talk, the second DT book has a lot more ehhhh moments than the first
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the gunslinger is so weird and cool. the stylistic changes with the drawing of the three are stark
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Randal posted:That is crazy talk, the second DT book has a lot more ehhhh moments than the first What, you didn’t like when Roland got his fingers bit off by a lobster after being a stone cold badass for an entire book and almost dying from bottom feeder germs?
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Jul 9, 2023 13:19
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i actually did not start reading The Long Walk but i did listen to an audiobook of The Mist and i did really like it. love the fun elements of a short story, like how david is a really typical Good Dad who Loves To Do His Wife. it was cool for me 'cause i love Half Life 1 a lot, which is said to have been inspired by this one a lot, and it was cool seeing what they pulled.
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Last Celebration posted:What, you didn’t like when Roland got his fingers bit off by a lobster after being a stone cold badass for an entire book and almost dying from bottom feeder germs? Yeah I loving hated that when I was 14 RCarr posted:Tooter Fish But then and now I loved watching sick and dying Roland try to quickly make sense of another world and pass for normal. In conclusion, the Dark Tower is a land of contrasts
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I thought Rage had a stunning prescience to it. It was not wholly an enjoyable read but I'll be damned if he didn't capture a feeling that seems to have taken over a lot of kids in the nation.
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Jul 10, 2023 02:29
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I got the second Dark Tower book for free from the pub so I guess now I either have to trade it (too much effort) or get the first one and read the whole series. Oh well.
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Jul 10, 2023 03:34
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DT is a fantastic 5 and a half book series
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Jul 10, 2023 03:42
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I got the second Dark Tower book for free from the pub so I guess now I either have to trade it (too much effort) or get the first one and read the whole series. Can't you just get it at a library?
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BiggerBoat posted:Can't you just get it at a library? I have never been able to return a library book on time and it's cost me a bunch of money. Like, more money than a copy of the book costs.
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escape artist posted:I thought Rage had a stunning prescience to it. It was not wholly an enjoyable read but I'll be damned if he didn't capture a feeling that seems to have taken over a lot of kids in the nation. I feel this way about Harold Lauder in The Stand. Dude is a pitch-perfect portrait of a incel written decades before that word meant anything. I mean, guys like that have clearly always been around, but Harold is so familiar to anyone who's seen modern misogynistic nerds that it's eerie.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I have never been able to return a library book on time and it's cost me a bunch of money. FWIW if your library has a decent ebook/downloadable audiobook infrastructure, most of those will return automatically on their due date through whatever app they use to manage those loans (like Libby). Android Blues posted:I feel this way about Harold Lauder in The Stand. Dude is a pitch-perfect portrait of a incel written decades before that word meant anything. I mean, guys like that have clearly always been around, but Harold is so familiar to anyone who's seen modern misogynistic nerds that it's eerie. I reread The Stand last year after not reading it in well over a decade and yeah, I had a very similar epiphany around Harold’s character. It’s wild that King so perfectly captured the tenets of the incel movement decades before it existed (or, at the very least, entered mainstream consciousness). Cpt. Mahatma Gandhi fucked around with this message at 13:19 on Jul 10, 2023 |
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oldpainless posted:DT is a fantastic 5 and a half book series I'm curious what your half good book is, because I have trouble finding a good half book between 6 and 7.
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Cpt. Mahatma Gandhi posted:FWIW if your library has a decent ebook/downloadable audiobook infrastructure, most of those will return automatically on their due date through whatever app they use to manage those loans (like Libby). Yeah you should look into the Libby app. My library has almost every King audiobook available through the Libby app, and it automatically returns. I don't think it's capable of incurring late fees.
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More and more library systems are switching to fine-free systems now too, but yeah ebooks are where it's at.Baron von Eevl posted:I'm curious what your half good book is, because I have trouble finding a good half book between 6 and 7. Maybe the novella?
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Just finished DT book 3, which I enjoyed quite a bit! I did not enjoy when it looked like Oy was going to get killed while helping rescue Jake but thankfully it was just a misdirect. My local library has the whole thing available and very little foot traffic cause I live in a small town, so I'm going to try and get through the rest of the series over the next little while.
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^^ End of Wastelands might've been where I was enjoying the series the mostgraventy posted:
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Baron von Eevl posted:I'm curious what your half good book is, because I have trouble finding a good half book between 6 and 7. I don’t count Wind through the keyhole as part of the main series but I meant more that I feel like big chunks of 5 and 7 could be taken out and a huge part of 6 could be eliminated. Editing could have saved around 400 pages between these last three books.
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I'm like 700 years old and I will never listen to an audiobook until I go blind, and I consider e-books an American poo poo fad that I hate, like 3D-printing.
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I can read faster by myself than other people can read aloud, so audiobooks just tend to make me insanely impatient, and I hate reading books on a screen. I need some pages to flip or it just doesn't engage me the same way, most of the time, I will only read an "e-book"(what I presume sane people call a .PDF file?) if there's no other option.
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PurpleXVI posted:I can read faster by myself than other people can read aloud, so audiobooks just tend to make me insanely impatient, and I hate reading books on a screen. I need some pages to flip or it just doesn't engage me the same way, most of the time, I will only read an "e-book"(what I presume sane people call a .PDF file?) if there's no other option. Ur me.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I'm like 700 years old and I will never listen to an audiobook until I go blind, and I consider e-books an American poo poo fad that I hate, like 3D-printing. What if you could listen to DT read by Stephen King?
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Randal posted:What if you could listen to DT read by Stephen King? You know what, I have no idea what he sounds like. But anyway I want trees to die. And obviously I'm dumb as poo poo.
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Randal posted:What if you could listen to DT read by Stephen King? Yep. You gotta hear him do Detta's voice.
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Cpt. Mahatma Gandhi posted:FWIW if your library has a decent ebook/downloadable audiobook infrastructure, most of those will return automatically on their due date through whatever app they use to manage those loans (like Libby). Or you could just, you know, renew it. My local library is great. It's close by, it's free, they'll reserve or have books sent over from other branches and text or email me when it's in.
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BiggerBoat posted:Or you could just, you know, renew it. My local library is great. It's close by, it's free, they'll reserve or have books sent over from other branches and text or email me when it's in. Oh totally, but sometimes (actually often times, in my experience) you don’t have the option to renew because there’s other people waiting.
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I used to listen to audiobooks occasionally when I worked a labor job that had me working independently and not needing to hear anything or concentrate for 8 hours. There's only so many interesting podcasts out there.
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I like audiobooks of books that I’ve already read. They’re easy to listen to in the car because because I already know the story, so I don’t mind just pausing them when I get where I’m going, going a few days without listening to them, etc. I also don’t mind the slower pace that much, because I’m revisiting an old favorite where I already know what happens next. When I tried an audiobook of a book I’d never read before I found it just didn’t work for me. Didn’t want to listen on a short drive, didn’t want to pause in the middle of a good part when I got to the grocery store, etc.
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It's an adjustment when you're used to print books. My move to audiobooks wasn't entirely by choice though. I have pain problems that can even make holding a book uncomfortable. When I have the option, immersion reading (audiobook being read while the ebook highlights the text that is being read) is a lot of fun, but you gotta buy two copies of a book. Anyway, audiobook discrimination is ableist and that's a hill I'll die on.
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i started listening to Misery. i like it so far though sometimes i have to make myself stop because it makes me very very anxious lol
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oldpainless posted:I don’t count Wind through the keyhole as part of the main series but I meant more that I feel like big chunks of 5 and 7 could be taken out and a huge part of 6 could be eliminated. Editing could have saved around 400 pages between these last three books. Yeah there's some good stuff in the last 3 that could've made up one decent book and then set it up for a proper finish. Book 5 suffered immensely from the slice of life stuff plus the very bad HP references. Refining things down to the major beats - Thunderclap, Mordred, the breaker factory showdown, and the final tower revelation - are what would get my vote to keep. Everything else was disappointing or cringey at best. Mat Cauthon fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Jul 12, 2023 |
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Maybe add some spoiler tags to those beats, sai (especially as this all started with questions from a new DT reader).
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I've been listening to audiobooks my entire life cuz I can't see well at all. It's been a while since I got into King but I'm very fortunate so many of his audiobooks are fantastic. Like, would I love The Shining and IT as much as I do if the narrator wasn't super perfect? Maybe not. Under the Dome wasn't quite as "theatrical" as those two but was still good and no doubt contributed to how much I loved the book (I bring it up because it was the last big King book I read for the first time and some of the Audible reviews poo poo on the narrator)
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landgrabber posted:i started listening to Misery. i like it so far though sometimes i have to make myself stop because it makes me very very anxious lol I think Misery is low-key one of King's best books. I'd put it top 3 even, above Pet Sematary, Salem's Lot, and pretty much anything post-sobriety. On a first read it's absolutely terrifying and sickening, but on a second read with a little distance I think it's one of the best books there is about writing fiction, even better than On Writing. And it doesn't waste any words at all, which for King is really saying something.
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I agree to an extent only because I found the fiction in fiction really tedious to read through. Misery's great though. And yeah I faintly remembered yall being pretty high on the gunslinger, honestly it'd be weird of me to skip the first book even if it were mediocre...probably gonna start once I finish Everything's Eventual tonight.
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