The Dark Tower

[Ragnarok]

I prefer the graphic novels.

[BlackVoid]

I started to read this recently and had to stop about halfway. It is terrible.

[foghat]

I love the series. Read it twice. I like the Gunslinger, but can see why it may turn some off. My advice is to just get through it. The Drawing of the Three really picks things up.

Am now reading The Wind Through the Keyhole which actually takes place between books 4 and 5. But is like Wizard and Glass in that it is about Roland looking back at his past.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by foghat

Am now reading The Wind Through the Keyhole which actually takes place between books 4 and 5. But is like Wizard and Glass in that it is about Roland looking back at his past.

I was worried the story within a story within a story (in The Wind Through the Keyhole), might have been trying to be a bit too clever, but it worked really well, I thought. All in all ... a very pleasant, nostalgic (and more to the point, non- intrusive/destructive) trip back to Mid-world.

[foghat]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

I was worried the story within a story within a story (in The Wind Through the Keyhole), might have been trying to be a bit too clever, but it worked really well, I thought. All in all ... a very pleasant, nostalgic (and more to the point, non- intrusive/destructive) trip back to Mid-world.

I am about midway through the story within the story and about 60-70% through the book. I just love mid-world.

Going to give the Gunslinger comics a go after. Well, after I get through the Wasteland comic series.

Damn Sons of Anarchy on Netflix has been cutting into my reading time a whole bunch lately. Just finished Season 2. One more season on netflix and Season 4 downloaded and ready to watch. Season 5 starts tonight.

[haydnfan]

I'm getting ready to read the final volume. I think that Wizard and Glass is the finest volume in the series, and Wolves of the Calla is the worst. If I were to rank 'em it would be:

Wizard and Glass > Drawing of the Three > The Gunslinger > The Waste Lands > The Song of Susannah > The Wolves of the Calla

The series has it's ups and downs but has been mostly downhill. I hope that the final volume does not carry King's tradition of not knowing how to write a proper, satisfying ending.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by haydnfan

I'm getting ready to read the final volume. I think that Wizard and Glass is the finest volume in the series, and Wolves of the Calla is the worst. If I were to rank 'em it would be:

Wizard and Glass > Drawing of the Three > The Gunslinger > The Waste Lands > The Song of Susannah > The Wolves of the Calla

I agree completely with your best/worst selections. But I'd flip-flop your two and three spots, personally. I wasn't all that fond of The Drawing of the Three's "meet the characters" nature. But then again, I've always found exposition ... rather tedious. A whole book's worth of it? ... almost mid-numbing for me. Hop to it and fill me in with characters/history along the way ... in small doses, please.

[Joy736]

Part 2 just came out as e-book in Dutch. I can't wait to read it

[foghat]

Originally Posted by haydnfan

I'm getting ready to read the final volume. I think that Wizard and Glass is the finest volume in the series, and Wolves of the Calla is the worst. If I were to rank 'em it would be:

Wizard and Glass > Drawing of the Three > The Gunslinger > The Waste Lands > The Song of Susannah > The Wolves of the Calla

The series has it's ups and downs but has been mostly downhill. I hope that the final volume does not carry King's tradition of not knowing how to write a proper, satisfying ending.

I agree that Wizard and Glass was probably the best. Though I really like the Waste Lands and Wolves of the Calla as well.

I personally thought the ending to the Dark Tower was awesome. I suspect others will disagree. Not going to spoil it for you, but it was written in such a way that it I did not see it coming until about a sentence or two before 'the end'. But in reading those last sentences before 'the end', I knew exactly what was going happen at the end. I thought it was brilliant - though I am probably not explaining my self very well.