Comments | sweet_crazyass: *BOGGLES*

sweet_crazyass

BOGGLES

Sep 12, 2006 07:00

Oh, Stephen King, you DO make me BOGGLE. I BOGGLE in CapsLock, no less.

Old news to some, but cut just in case.

*BOGGLEBOGGLEBOGGLE*

Wow.

I've loved the Dark Tower series ever since I read The Gunslinger and got caught hook, line and sinker. Those books were much different than his usual fare, something about his use of language changed or maybe it ( Read more... )

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inthekeyofd September 12 2006, 13:52:07 UTC

I love the Dark Tower, I've read pretty much everything he's written. My favorite still, "The Dark Half" and then there is the old standby only for the way it was written, "Carrie"

Thanks for the head up on these..if Stephen keeps putting himself in his books and short stories (there was a character that was so HIM in Kingdom Hospital) he may become the ultimate Mary Sue. *smile*

sweet_crazyass September 14 2006, 10:58:24 UTC

Maybe we should call it 'Stephen King-ing' instead of 'Mary Sue-ing.' ;)

ficangel September 12 2006, 17:42:32 UTC

I view the DT series as the ultimate culmination of everything that he's ever written, which he probably hates, but it's true. It's the perfect apex of his writing style, which was a bit rough in his earlier work, and his plotting, which has started to get weird* as of late. I love the coda. That being said: winking and nudging at the audience as you introduce a cheap deus ex machina does not make it any less cheap, Steve. I love the DT series, but really, those last two books are evidence of why the author who hates to outline should have broken his own rules just this once.

*and I have an incredibly high tolerance for weird, too.

sweet_crazyass September 14 2006, 11:03:23 UTC

Being sober does weird things to your muse. ;)

I wasn't particularly happy with the coda at first. I was content with the epilogue (and still bawling over Oy, BOOOOOOOOOOO!) but then, after I re-read the last few paragraphs, I decided I'd take it.

Patrick Danville was another gut punch - of everything he's written, 'Insomnia' is the one that's still my favorite, followed closely by 'Gerald's Game.'

skylark916 September 13 2006, 13:43:09 UTC

I've never heard of it before, until I saw it at work the other day, and there you go, you post about it. Maybe I'll have to read it now. :D

sweet_crazyass September 14 2006, 11:05:34 UTC

Consider yourself lucky, then, you can read them all and know there IS an ending - I had to wait 24 FUCKING YEARS (or thereabouts) for this series to finally end. :P

skylark916 September 15 2006, 10:21:25 UTC

HAHHA, that sucks the big one! I'm reading some Neil Gaiman, I'll read those books soon. :D