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What is the worst experience you've had reading a book? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 16 points 3 months ago

I honestly despise King's longer novels. The Dark Tower series is the epitome of his inability to stay focused and well paced.

It's like he set a goal of some ridiculous book length, thought he needed a bunch of padding to get there, hit the mark and abruptly ends it.

Give me Salem's Lot, Carrie, Pet Semetary, etc all day but I can’t with Dark Tower.

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

The Dark Tower series is the epitome of his inability to stay focused and well paced

Probably in part because of the time span over which it was written.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Which is weird because the first book is just a collection of short stories, it's not even a single narrative and IIRC is under 300 pages?

(checks notes)

216 pages. 224 with the Afterword.

[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

The entire first half of Salem's Lot is 95% just him going on random tangents about various townsfolk and it's excellent.

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