I know this is an unpopular opinion, but several people heavily and repeatedly recommended me the Dark Tower series by Stephen King.
I had read a few books by King before and really enjoyed some of them. Even the first book in the series (written well before the others) was interesting but the whole series is just unbearable. It’s long and disjointed and while there are some interesting moments, there are three times the amount of adding grotesquerie for no narrative reason, literal self-inserts, or worse, grabbing references to other IPs that get shoehorned into the story.
I know there are a lot of people that liked the series and I am happy it exists for those people, and I realize not everything is made for my tastes, but the ending was just so irredeemably bad. It makes the ending of GoT look like Breaking Bad.
The worst part was that there were references to cool things that he’d find in the tower once he got there, such as music that was enjoyed by people on a particular floor, and then
spoiler (but please do read this so that it robs you of any desire to read the series)
Stephen King had the last book end with a time loop going back to the first book like a coward.
I dragged myself through the last couple of books to find out what was in that stupid tower and was so incredibly disappointed…
(I will say, though, that, the city of people who used their psychic powers to destroy the Universe because someone was going to destroy it anyway so it might as well be them because the job paid really well was pretty apt, though!)
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but several people heavily and repeatedly recommended me the Dark Tower series by Stephen King.
I had read a few books by King before and really enjoyed some of them. Even the first book in the series (written well before the others) was interesting but the whole series is just unbearable. It’s long and disjointed and while there are some interesting moments, there are three times the amount of adding grotesquerie for no narrative reason, literal self-inserts, or worse, grabbing references to other IPs that get shoehorned into the story.
I know there are a lot of people that liked the series and I am happy it exists for those people, and I realize not everything is made for my tastes, but the ending was just so irredeemably bad. It makes the ending of GoT look like Breaking Bad.
The worst part was that there were references to cool things that he’d find in the tower once he got there, such as music that was enjoyed by people on a particular floor, and then
spoiler (but please do read this so that it robs you of any desire to read the series)
Stephen King had the last book end with a time loop going back to the first book like a coward.
I dragged myself through the last couple of books to find out what was in that stupid tower and was so incredibly disappointed…
(I will say, though, that, the city of people who used their psychic powers to destroy the Universe because someone was going to destroy it anyway so it might as well be them because the job paid really well was pretty apt, though!)
Yeah, the Dark Tower series was a big ol’ DNF for me. I just wasn’t really able to get invested in anything. I stopped at the part with the train.
dnf?
also the next one “Wizard and Glass” is just a big retrospection and might be one of his best books imk
DNF is short for Did Not Finish.
I couldn’t make it past the endless beach with the lobstrocities
The first three were good. When I got to the fourth, where it explains how he became the most feared man on the planet I noped out.
you disliked Wizard amd Glass?
Yes.