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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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

Huh, okay, I would be interested in a prequel, maybe. Thanks

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] MutilationWave 1 points 1 year ago

Goddamn right. I wish the whole thing was set in that time.

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

Seriously? I thought the last two books were the strongest.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Oh man, talk about unpopular take.

You're entitled to your opinion of course. But that's a tough one to defend lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.