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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: BlueJ1 on October 09, 2004, 08:23:13 PM
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Anyone else here read the series ?
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yes
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Disjointed crap, it was all downhill after King wrote The Stand.
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I had to stop and shake my head with the last one. I simply cannot believe Stephen King wrote himself into the book in such a manner. Next thing you know Jack Ryan will be visiting Tom Clancy for advice in Clancy's next book.
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I tried hard too, but gave up. And I didn't speed through the Stand by any means, but this was too much.
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I read the first one, wasnt a bad book but I didnt like as much as his other work so I have not read anymore of the books.
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Just remember, most likely he was told to write himself in, cause the publisher liked the idea..
Of course, I dunno if he's publishing himself or not..
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Read 'em. The last one wasn't great, only one left to go.
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This is supposed to be his opus, why not write himself in? I would like to know what happened between Gilead and Tull.
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I stopped reading Stephen King after Pet Semitary.
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I don't believe Stephen King is in a position where he needs to do what his publishers ask. If he wrote himself in, he chose to do it. And Stiel, it's not that he wrote himself in, it's how he wrote the character... and the "aura" around him. It was more than a bit over the top.
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Read all 7, and overall I thought it was a pretty good story. Yeah, he wrote himself into the last couple, but I can forgive that. I think it was his way of explaining that almost everything he's done and written over the years has somehow been related to this story. It's kind of a retirement speech, in a way. Though I have to say, I was a little disappointed in the ending of the last book (the second ending, not the first).
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He's been drawing all of his stories together ever since the mid 80's. The whole "one evil" across "all dimensions" kinda thing. I find it odd that he wrote himself in as the shining light of goodness holding all the universes together (he was one of the beams). It's more than a bit over the top. The only saving grace is he has seemingly killed himself off. Now I just hope they don't save the rose by somehow going back and keeping him from getting killed... cause that would just ruin it.
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Tried to, but couldn't keep up with the one book every few years thing. I'm going to wait till they all come out and reread them.
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He's completed the series. He released two books in 6 months with the last one of the series coming next year. If you're going to read them... you might as well start now. More than a couple of them are very slow reading.
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Read the first book. Unadulterated crap.
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Didn't know the last one was available. Feel like I have to read it, guess I'll pick it up today.
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It's not avialable yet. I think april or something like that. It's been written, though. The last 3 were all written together.
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That used to be my favorite series..
The first 4 books are good. In fact, I liked the 4th one the best. Fifth one was ok, sixth one.. well, that kind of sucked in my opinion.
I really would have liked to have gotten more of the history when it was just Roland, Cuthbert, and Alain... but he kind of dropped that storyline.
On the other hand, I think he was only supposed to be late-20's in the first book, and he slept for 10 years or something in between books 1 and 2.. so I guess there is only around a 10-12 year gap between where book 4 ends and book 1 begins.
I actually preferred when he was making up Rolands world, as opposed to adapting NYC to the story.. I don't need to read about NYC, if I wanted to go there I'd drive.
Thats the way I look at it anyway. I'm still gonna get the last book when it comes out, even if it sucks (and it probably will). Gotta know how the story ends... I hope they all die :).
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It is available, bought and downloaded from here:
http://www.fictionwise.com/servlet/mw;jsessionid=t9waaEdYF3k9xc32Pc+P4eW902M?a=rewrite&url=/ebooks/eBook25629.htm
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LOL! Shows what I know. I guess I'll have to pick it up.
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These are the 1st books i read in English, read with a dictionary in one hand... wasn't very fun...and the story was quicly boring as well, but SK is pretty easy to read overall. I now read most books in english. (except french litterature of course :) )
Curval, Pet semetary was the only book from SK I realy liked ("It" wasn't all that bad either)... have to give in, I was maybe 13 when i read it though.
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I'm about 650 pages into "The Gunslinger". I'm hoping for a recovery in the last 200 pages... but it doesn't look good. Someone needs to tell Mr. King that he doesn't have to keep saying the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over again.