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For what it's worth, I loved the ending the The Dark Tower and hated 'Wizard and Glass'. Fucking melodrama about stupid kids and witches? No ta, SK. If I read through these again (and I'll have to, I read the original version of the The Gunslinger), I may just skip over that one.

Which only goes to reinforce my incredibly well written critique of King's writing style - he's such a completely onanastic cock that he even managed to obscure his own point in his literary jizz.

I have only read the first in the series... I might pick up the rest some day

I liked King's portrayal of an man with moss growing out of him in Creepshow.

The Dark Tower series is as close to unfilmable as anything I can think of. I mean, if Hollywood couldn't make fucking Dreamcatcher without changing the plot so much that it was almost a different story, what hope does anyone have of doing The Dark Tower justice? Also, most film adaptations of King's work do middling box-office business at best. Odds-on the first film would bomb and the rest would never get made.

Well, I think I've given up with this. I'm about 80% of the way through volume III and I just cannot stand any more of King's mediocre prose and shallow characters; it all reminds me rather too much of Dan Brown. By comparison, I picked up Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro on the plane to America and read non-stop for five hours.

This is still a great thread.

Especially my posts. Scathing literary criticism.

Hello me. That's at about exactly the same point where I gave up. I read the summary of how it ended and was glad I had given up long before then.

How far into DaVinci code did you make it? I got about 40% into that before I realised it was a rubbish shareware adventure game from the 1990's turned into a book.

About seven pages.

Wizard and glass can fuck off. Still.

I reread the first one in its adjusted form and it makes more sense in context

Oddly, earlier this week, I started reading them all again.

Mmmm, I've been tempted to start again recently, too.

The bit with Eddie trying to get off the plane with the smack is still some grade A storytelling.

Agreed. I think Dot3 is actually my favourite of the whole lot.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/63749/2 ... hrough.htm
If you tell it a joke, does it asplode?

IDGI.

Ooh, there are Dark Tower graphic novels.

Should have paid attention to what thread it was in, I guess.

And a "game".
http://www.stephenking.com/promo/discordia_prev2/

I am on the last book of the series, again.
Second time around it's much, much better (and I liked it the first time) - perhaps also helped by the fact that I'm just reading all seven books straight through.

You are the Nirejhenge of books.

I've tried reading several King novels over the years and even some of his Bachman novels. I don't like his writing style — it just doesn't grab me in anyway whatsoever and feels for all the world like I'm counting words rather than reading.

I can't stand most King, but the Bachman books are brilliant.

I think it's a Bachman book which is the only one of his I've managed to finish. Can't remember which one though, might have been The Running Man — it was over a decade ago.

No, I'm the Nirejhenge of loud Welsh friends.

I have finished the books.
By bugger, they were better this time around. Somehow I'd forgotten that people died, and Eddie's last words to Roland were a bit, er, much.
The ending seemed to suggest that Roland would be able to 'reply' to the horn sound the world-roses made as he walked toward the tower the next time around.

(This post is practically spoiler free)

I have started the new book - The Wind Through The Keyhole.
It fits in after they come out of the green castle near the first thinny and before they get to Callah.

It's pretty good, so far. I had to stop and think about a few of the mid-world words, but then it clicked and they all made sense. It starts off with the ka-tet, but then they have to stop and Roland starts telling them a story, which I think is going to be the meat of the book.

In theory, King can keep writing them forever. Good, say I.

Bearing in mind I fucking HATED Wizard and Glass because it was just Roland sitting around telling a story... would I like this?

Dunno mate. I'm only a little way in.

No, because the second half is a story within a story.

I really enjoyed it though. It felt good to be back in Mid-World after so long.

Dark Tower t-shirt on TeeFury today: http://www.teefury.com/

Well, I hope you're all happy. I've had to reread Wizard and Glass again to fit the new book into sequence.

It's... not as Mills and Boon as my memory insisted it was, but IMHO it's still the weakest of the series

HBO TV series a'comin'!

http://imdb.com/rg/an_share/title/title/tt1648190/

https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/ ... 3145159680

It's official: The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed. #DarkTowerMovie @McConaughey @IdrisElba

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) March 1, 2016

Well then.

H/T DoccyG

Yay!

Who is Elba playing again?

The gunslinger.

Excellent.

It's going to be awesome.

I hope he plays Roland as Loofa

I presume it's going to be a six part film or something? They couldn't do the source material justice in one film.

Also: yay Elba!

Film then a series is still the current thinking, apparently.

Filming has begun: http://www.htxt.co.za/2016/05/10/film-a ... cape-town/

She pretty

Any idea if they are tackling the story in book-order, or are they doing something different with it?

Gosh