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So, if I read the Gunslinger and didn't particularly care for it, should I bother with these other books? King himself seems to hate it. He says so in the preface. Would I be very lost if I just picked up Wizard and Glass without having read the other ones?
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Red Oktober posted:It would be better if you've read the rest, but you absolutely won't be lost - it's very self contained. 3Romeo posted:The first seventy or so pages won't have a lot of context except for King's preface (his "Argument"); they're the follow-up to a cliffhanger where Roland (the last gunslinger), Eddie Dean (a heroin addict from 1980 New York), Susannah Dean (his wife, a civil rights activist from the 1960's, who is missing her legs and is actually a hybrid of two personalities, the Hyde of which came from a brick dropped on her head), Jake Chambers (a boy who's died twice and come back from a different, 1970's New York), and Oy (a billy-bumbler, an animal that can kind of talk but is like a raccoon mixed with a Corgi) are on board a pink, bullet-shaped train named Blaine, and are in a riddling contest for their lives. Thanks! I'll give that a shot. 
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