Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 3 months agoWhat is the worst experience you've had reading a book?message-squaremessage-square254fedilinkarrow-up1149arrow-down17
arrow-up1142arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the worst experience you've had reading a book?Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square254fedilink
minus-squaretacosanonymous@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up16·3 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-squareHelixDab2@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up8·3 months ago The Dark Tower series is the epitome of his inability to stay focused and well paced Probably in part because of the time span over which it was written.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 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.
minus-squareCryophilia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoThe entire first half of Salem’s Lot is 95% just him going on random tangents about various townsfolk and it’s excellent.
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.
Probably in part because of the time span over which it was written.
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.
The entire first half of Salem’s Lot is 95% just him going on random tangents about various townsfolk and it’s excellent.