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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Which, while they are quite good, they feel like the least "Stephen King" of his novels, even the bachman books.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I read the first book and had absolutely no fucking clue what was happening. Do they get better? I feel like I needed to be doing cocaine at the time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I enjoyed them but as I recall it stays weird. I'm into that, though. My favorites are mostly pretty weird.

[–] frunch 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I like weird! Mind sharing your favorites?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

My favorites for fiction would be Neal Stephenson,Roger Zelazny, Fritz Leiber, Ursula Le Guin, Stephen R. Donaldson, Charles Bukowski, Iain Banks, Frederick Pohl, Glen Cook, Jim Butcher

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

The first one is mostly vibes. There's not a ton of good story meat in it, and it's pretty short. Book 2 really gets going though, and book 3 is just wild. Once you get to Wolves of the Calla, though, it's really gonna test your patience.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

It can't hurt. The author certainly was.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ups and downs; like I said, written over a dozen years, the styles vary, and there's some consensus that there are a couple which are "the best," and a couple which aren't. However, if you didn't like the first, it's probably fair to say you probably wouldn't much care for the rest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's because they're not horror, and SK is known best for his horror. I do think he'd said, at one point, that TDT was the most meaningful series to him, and the fact that it forms an umbrella reality encompassing all of his other stories - sometimes featuring characters from his other novels, is significant.

That said, I'm not a King fan; I don't much care for horror, so his money making genre isn't very compelling for me. But I did get super-into The Dark Tower. It's up there among my favorite works, despite the ending.