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Finished my Dark Tower reread
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5 is even my favorite book in the series now! It’s absolutely iconic I think even more than 3 or 4. And the tone works as well for me now better than even 1 and 2 do. Even with all that… It’s hard to beat the character and ka-tet energy that Wizard and Glass has. Tough decisions! 😅


Sometimes it's fun to root for the villains. Or at least expect them to be competent.
Long series don't really intimidate me anymore. I just plan and read a little each day.
Joseph wrote: "I have yet to start."
A reread or you haven't read it at all?

I enjoy a good villain it makes you appreciate the heroes more..!!:)


I know a lot of people complain about how easily The Crimson King ends up going down, but for me, King was showing how much we build up our enemies, or just bad guys in general. Usually in very unrealistic ways. When we gather our courage and do what we must, it is almost never as bad as we thought it would be. Dread is so much worse than memory.

For me it wasn't the King going down... it was (view spoiler) Of course, as I was halfway through the first read I was riding to work and I told one of the riders that I was reading the dark tower, and he said, "My friend just read that... he didn't like the ending." So that may have set up some bad expectations as well as infuriating me at the time.

But I completely understand why it isn't everyone's cup of tea. ;-)


Derrick wrote: "I've completed two trips to the dark tower so far. First time was with the original non-revised edition of The Gunslinger and no Wind Through the Keyhole. Second time was with the revised edition o..."
Same for me. Maybe I'll read again some day.

What did you think of Wind Through The Keyhole, I thought it was beautifully written and really drew you in. Think I may have read it in two sessions (long time ago).
Yes I do believe a reread is on the cards.. :)

I definitely enjoyed it! I gave it 4 stars. Strangely, I didn't write a review for it. I'll have to write one when I reread it! I always enjoy whenever King gives us a story within the story. From a Buick 8 is another good example of that in my opinion.

I didn’t leave any reviews for any of the series, I wasn’t a member of Goodreads in 2017 ( last reread.) Like you I will do a review after my reread.
I thought of Roland as a badass antihero and the first time around I didn't like him becoming more sensitive and caring about people.
I thought Flagg was made really lame but now I realize that intimidating as he was in The Stand he was always a pretty big screwup.
I didn't like that the ka-tet Roland spent all that time gathering and training just went off to a happy ending. But I guess it does make sense that Roland came to the tower alone.
Things that still bug me though:
The cosmology of this multiverse just makes no sense!
I didn't so much mind Stephen King putting himself into the books but hated the goofy deus ex machinas he used himself for. Mail privledges for Gan's sake???
On a side note: Walking my dog at 3 a.m. when I only had about twenty pages to go I found roses growing in front of somebody's house and I just had to steal one. :)