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The Dark Tower: Book 7 on audiobook. I really enjoy the reader's voice and characterization of all the players in the book
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I'm scared of reading these because I've heard they're basically just a cluster-eff of Steven King's other works.
Worth it? Or no?
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I think it is. It's one of the few things he's written that I enjoy. I know there's a lot of guest appearances from other books of his, but you don't need to know ****-all about those books to follow the story at all. It's an interesting series and it's interesting to see how the story progresses over the years and as King's skill as a writer evolves. That's just me, though. A post-apocalyptic science fiction fantasy western struck me as quite interestingI'm scared of reading these because I've heard they're basically just a cluster-eff of Steven King's other works.
Worth it? Or no?
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The thing that annoys me is when he does gigantic and unavoidable tie-ins with the Dark Tower series in his other books. Like, there was a section in Insomnia where he just shouts out directly to Roland and makes a big deal out of it, even though it has nothing to do with the story. I usually like when he makes references to his other books but that just bugged me for some reason.
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Considering the main villain of Insomnia is the main villain of The Dark Tower, I can see anyone who isn't familiar's frustration. I think King wanted to somehow tie all his books together somehow, as if they were all from the same universe, with varying degrees of success
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Oh, is that true about the Crimson King? I didn't know that.
I always figured it was just some sort of shapeshifting demonic alien like Pennywise. It certainly knew about her. But I also hear that they go into the whole Taelus thing in more detail in the Dark Tower, so I don't know.
As for the same Universe thing, I think that works really well for some of them, but others are better on their own. I like how he wants his own consistent canon but some things that happen in them are just too big to be so completely intertwined.
Like The Stand is about the end of the world civilization, yet Randall Flagg shows up later in other stories where the world doesn't end that way. And The Mist is also about the world ending end of civilization, yet in other stories it doesn't, and apparently in the Dark Tower they talk about where the Mist came from... are some of them supposed to be alternate histories for the same world, or is there actually some way to explain it?
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I'm scared of reading these because I've heard they're basically just a cluster-eff of Steven King's other works.
Worth it? Or no?
SO worth it. They're AMAZING books (at least I think so
), with or without knowledge of all the tie-ins. Though I always have fun reading his other books and seeing where they fit into the DT universe.
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As do I. I've recently 'acquired' the audiobooks read by George Guidall. He's an awesome reader and so worth listening toSO worth it. They're AMAZING books (at least I think so
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I remember reading about this movie after I watched it. Apparently they specifically did CGI for any scene involving animal cruelty (gunning down cows, frog death, etc.) in order to get it to be cruelty free, and that was BEFORE the laws that specifically prevented it in 1999.
