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It's definitely referenced in The Dark Tower iirc
The It monster is in the dark Tower? Which book? I think I only read the first three.
And honestly I can barely remember them even though I read the first three twice. They're so crazy.
When he finally came back to finish that series he really took it off, way off, the rails. I envy you for only having read the first 3.
Oh yeah? Which one did they first visit a metropolitan city?
Was the gunslinger in a pharmacy?
Idk I think I lost interest at that point.
Ahhh look at these strange metal boxes with people inside! - geeeet outta here.
2nd book has the gunslinger (in Eddie's body) in New York, and yes he had a shootout with the police in a pharmacy. He needed meds for his infected hand.
I don't remember strange metal boxes with people inside...
4th book is really good. At least teenage me liked it at the time. It's a prequel book about a time in the gunslinger past when he had just become newly knighted, and a love interest.
After that things get weird. I should try another read through.
Huh, okay, I would be interested in a prequel, maybe. Thanks
It can be pretty much read as an independent book too, so don't feel like you need to read the other books first. There's just a bit of tie in from the other books at the beginning and the end.
Oh that actually interests me a lot, thank you. I just started Babel by rf kuang, But I think I will try the fourth book, I'd like to see the gunslinger again. Yeah I was worried. I thought I'd have to go through the whole series again, but a relative stand alone entry sounds doable
Yeah, but Book 4 is the best. Wizard and Glass is the pinnacle of the series.
Been years (prob over a decade) since I've read any of them, but I remembered hating Wizard and Glass at first, because it was a prequel and I wanted to hear more about the current journey, but fell in love with it by the end. So fucking good.
Goddamn right. I wish the whole thing was set in that time.
Seriously? I thought the last two books were the strongest.
Oh man, talk about unpopular take.
You're entitled to your opinion of course. But that's a tough one to defend lol
Yes, I wouldn't bother reading 5-7. The terrifying thing is that he wrote that stuff sober. Cocaine King would've done a better job of it, I think.
It's been forever since I read them last, I want to say Wolves of the Calla?
What do you read these days?
Just out of curiosity.
And do you still read any king?
I'm mainlining Brandon Sanderson these days. I haven't read too much of King's stuff, although the extended version of The Stand is still in my top favorites and gets a reread regularly
Oh I never read the extended version.
I only read the first expanse book. Liked it, thought the ending was great
Thanks for your answers, have a good one
Thanks, you too! I actually haven't read the Expanse or any of James S. A. Corey's stuff, but I really dug the show and it's on my list to check out!
Fun fact: James S.A. Corey isn't a person and is the pen name that Ty Franck and David Abraham use when they're writing together.
The Expanse show was fantastic and the books are somehow better (there's also like 40 more years worth of story [although the books did a multi decade time jump between books to get there])!
Respect, gancho
Thanks cousin!