• Zirconium@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I heard from quinn’s ideas is you have to be a pretty big reader of king’s other works in order to read the dark tower.

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      3 months ago

      That’s pretty funny to me. I read the start of a King novel when I was probably too young for it (pretty sure it was It?), and just got bored with it. Never tried reading another for years. A decade or two later I tried the Dark Tower series and ended up binge-reading the first 5 books.

      I really love those books, although I absolutely see their flaws and understand why people wouldn’t like them.

      Either way, I definitely don’t think you need to be a Stephen King fan to enjoy them. I mean, I’m certainly not and I certainly did. Still haven’t read any of his other works…