Wind Through the Keyhole before Wolves of the Calla? - SK is a faggot but I need to read something on the shitter

[Someone in a Tree]

The Wind Through the Keyhole has kind of an “after dinner mint” quality to it. Like a lot of people here, I think the series peaked with Wizard & Glass, which I think is one of the best examples of an author moving a story forward without advancing the plot much, if you understand what I mean. It was nice to return to that part of the series with Keyhole, but it is pretty disposable, all things considered.

 

[Knight of the Rose]

Well that's fucking depressing.

The whole thing that made Gilead and shit feel special was the fact that it was all olden time western shit with the occasional out-of-sync relic that still kinda worked, but the world had started to move on a long time before Roland was born and it was just getting worse.

The whole point of the central conflict in WAG is

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the fact that if Farson is able to get some gas and refine it he might get *some* old people machines that will allow him to mow down people, even machine guns are seen as weird and unfamiliar and only something they learned about but never really toyed with and all the other types of guns are so old you're more likely to blow your face off than kill someone else.

Making Gilead all techy goes against every single description up to this point

Also fairies and humans? What the fuck is that shit, True Blood?

This. My dark tower lore is pretty rusty, but it almost seemed like a world where Merlin and Arthur were transported to a Western Style world and create an Old West Monarchy and had cowboys as Knights

 

[xX Puss Slayer Xx]

Finally reading the Dark Tower now that I'm out of the joint that I have time for read for myself

cant be reading in the joint, theres just soo much to do

 

[spinal gas chamber]

Read the DT in order as written and let supplements come later.

 

[UnsufficentBoobage]

I just realised that I had read the entire series, but my brain thought it was shit (it is an eternal uphill battle of my consious liking certain concepts of King's, and my everything else considering him about Watt-Evans level at best) enough to remember like 4 scenes total due to them disgusting me so much. And things Blind Guardian songs allude to, vaguely.
So no help here, sorry T_T

 

[Dom Cruise]

The Waste Lands is the apex of the series. Blaine is a pain, and that is the truth.

It is absolutely the best book in the series and it's a real shame King wasn't able to maintain that level of quality throughout the whole series.

King absolutely nailed what he was going for with Dark Tower with Waste Lands, there are moments in that book that feel downright magical.

What's fascinating about The Dark Tower as a whole is Stephen King is typically known for his every day, real world locations and characters encountering the supernatural or the unusual, Dark Tower goes the polar opposite route into pure fantasy and it's a fascinating contrast with the rest of his work.

They did explore it in some of the side material like comics - including the story of Arthur Eld himself - and it was absolutely terrible.

I keep forgetting about the comics, are they really not good?

 

[BoobWhiskers]

Definitely read WTTK after the rest rather than trying to weave it in, it's sort of a bonus book that touches on backstory stuff and is a bit of a consolation piece after

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the ending pulls your heart out and stomps on it, yes I'm a weak bitch and it made sense and all but man the last book hurt.

 

[Internet War Criminal]

It is absolutely the best book in the series and it's a real shame King wasn't able to maintain that level of quality throughout the whole series.

King absolutely nailed what he was going for with Dark Tower with Waste Lands, there are moments in that book that feel downright magical.

What's fascinating about The Dark Tower as a whole is Stephen King is typically known for his every day, real world locations and characters encountering the supernatural or the unusual, Dark Tower goes the polar opposite route into pure fantasy and it's a fascinating contrast with the rest of his work.

Interesting because it feels to me like W&G might be the best book he's written, period. I mean I'm a bit burnt out on The Stand because of that fucking awful TV show I need a couple of years' buffer to reread it again (or reread W&G) but it really feels at the very very least top 5 material