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What book are you currently reading, or recommend?

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IronBuckI;1661470; said:
Reading Stephen King's Dark Tower Series for the second time. Currently on the third book (The Wastelands) , and I really love going back and picking up everything that I missed the first time around.
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It was easy to lose a LOT when waiting 10 years between Wastelands and the next book. SK more than made up for my waiting though with the subsequent books.
 
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IronBuckI;1661470; said:
Reading Stephen King's Dark Tower Series for the second time. Currently on the third book (The Wastelands) , and I really love going back and picking up everything that I missed the first time around.
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I've been debating about going back to this series or not. While I really enjoyed the first three books, I found Wizard and Glass to be a huge let down. I've read a lot of comments from people that say the series declines as you continue through it.

Based on my dislike of Wizard and Glass, what is the advice from those who have read the entire series? Is it worth it?
 
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buckeyegrad;1661646; said:
I've been debating about going back to this series or not. While I really enjoyed the first three books, I found Wizard and Glass to be a huge let down. I've read a lot of comments from people that say the series declines as you continue through it.

Based on my dislike of Wizard and Glass, what is the advice from those who have read the entire series? Is it worth it?
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I enjoyed the entire series, but my experience with the series is much different than most.

First, I haven't actually read any of the books. I have an hour commute to work, and all of the books have been read to me by Frank Muller or George Guidall. IMO, These two are/were the two best audio book readers out there. Muller was the best, IMO, but he hasn't worked since a motorcycle accident in 2001 and he died in 2008.

Second, I rarely read for pleasure until my late 20's. I had never read any Stephen King until I read (actually read) The Talisman in 2004 or 2005. Therefore, I didn't have to wait between Dark Tower releases. In fact, I read the entire series over the course of a year and a half, while also reading many of SK's other novels. That way I would have a better grasp of how he intertwined many of his other books into the Dark Tower series, and I could also get a feel of how SK deals with "other worlds than these" in many of his books. It was all kind of a cluster of The Stand, Salem's Lot, The Dark Towers, and a lot of other novels. That's another reason why I'm going back and reading the entire series one after another. I want to concentrate on just this story, rather than cramming everything that I was trying to learn about SK's "worlds".

Wizard and Glass was an unnecessarily long-winded love story in the middle of a quest, and the ending was kind of stupid, but that's something that I've learned to deal with when it comes to Stephen King. :biggrin: I think that the series definitely changed after this book, but I'm not sure that it actually declined. I think that a lot of the criticism stems from the frustration of the amount of time between releases of the first through fifth books, and King inserting an unnecessarily long-winded love story immediately after the six-year cliff-hanger at the end of The Wastelands.

This probably doesn't help you come to any conclusion about whether to continue, but at least I was able to tell my unnecessarily long-winded story about reading The Dark Tower. :wink2:
 
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IronBuckI;1661700; said:
Wizard and Glass was an unnecessarily long-winded love story in the middle of a quest, and the ending was kind of stupid, but that's something that I've learned to deal with when it comes to Stephen King. :biggrin: I think that the series definitely changed after this book, but I'm not sure that it actually declined. I think that a lot of the criticism stems from the frustration of the amount of time between releases of the first through fifth books, and King inserting an unnecessarily long-winded love story immediately after the six-year cliff-hanger at the end of The Wastelands.

This probably doesn't help you come to any conclusion about whether to continue, but at least I was able to tell my unnecessarily long-winded story about reading The Dark Tower. :wink2:
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It does help. Your description of Wizard and Glass is exactly why I didn't like it. If the story picks back up and improves after it, then perhaps it is worth going back to.
 
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