Stephen King Book • Page 45

Hopefully it's good. I haven't watched the movie but I heard it's so bad that I don't plan on it

 

It's awful. So I've been trying to figure out how you do this since, you know, two of your four main characters (well, five if we count Oy. Oy Oy!) don't even show up until the second book. And I think you start with Drawing of the Three and sort of insert flashbacks to the Gunslinger throughout the first season? That would work, right?

 

It's an adaptation of Wizard and Glass

 

Interesting. Doesn't seem like there's much there for more than one, maybe two seasons though.

 

Does anyone here happen to own a copy of Kingdom Hospital (and if so, where did you buy it)? I've been looking to buy it somewhere other than Amazon because they suck at shipping movies. Most of the recent King stuff I ordered came with broken cases and discs sliding around everywhere.

 

I’m done with Hearts in Atlantis (again) and finally started the Dark Tower series. I have about 45 minutes left in The Gunslinger.

 

The dark tower series is weird in that the first book is this strange, sort of surreal fantasy and the rest of the books are more typical King affairs. A huge tonal shift but it's all pretty damn good

 

and the fourth book is a full on western

 

^ and amazing.

 

Wizard and the Glass is my favorite of the series actually. I can’t hear Charyu without feeling something

 

Seconded. Can we rank the books? I kinda want to. Side note; I've never actually finished VII because I always get bummed the series is going to end. I've read the other books like four times each.

Wizard and Glass
The Wastelands
Wolves of the Calla
The Drawing of the Three
The Gunslinger
Song of Susannah

 

Hope so because I’m not huge into Gunslinger and one feeling I keep coming back to is, It doesn’t feel like King.

 

How do you know how many minutes left of a book?

 

Finish it right god damn now!

 

Keep in mind that The Gunslinger wasn’t all written at once and was released in small increments. The 2003 revised addition fixes some of this but can’t make up for everything. I still love the book but I can understand why the pacing might seem off. The series is amazing though. The Drawing of the Three should suck you in right away.



Side note: Been contemplating getting a Dark Tower sleeve but I’m having trouble thinking of good ideas

 

When I first read the series I could not get through Wizard and Glass. Found it to be such a slog. I came back to it a year later and breezed right through it. Might be my favorite of the seven.

 

The Wizard and Glass story may easily be the most compelled I’ve felt in a story. Which says a lot.

That story has old western, it has fantasy and super natural elements, suspense, love, violence, and most of all your signature Stephen King heartbreak.

 

I don’t know if I’ve ever felt so close to a group of characters as I did their Ka-tet

 

King is my favorite author so I would totally get a tattoo. Maybe the wheel of ka

 

IT is my fav book too but fuck getting a pennywise tattoo haha. or Georgie in his yellow rain coat and ballon

 

I was thinking about getting the tower somewhere but I'm out of room on my arms. Honestly the cover of VII with Roland standing in front of the tower with the field of roses would be rad.

 

I am several hours (audiobook) into The Drawing of the Three and LOVE it.

 

Here we go!

 

Peter Straub is a very dry writer and he takes a lot of getting use to but he's great.

 

My friend gifted me that book. Haven’t read it tho