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August 28, 2008 at 05:17
Jennifer
I was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by Flagg when I read The Eyes of the Dragon in junior high. When he reappeared in The Stand (which I read over ten years later), I nearly cheered out loud. Flagg represents King’s opus on the whole–very dark and very wrong, but, as you put it, irresistible.
Nice review. May I borrow the book now?
August 28, 2008 at 20:55
Brian Murphy
I’m a big Stephen King fan, but I’ve avoided the Dark Tower series. I read the Gunslinger years ago and enjoyed it, but I’ve seen a lot of negative reviews about the latter books in the series. The reviews largely kept me from picking up the Drawing of the Three.
Any thoughts on the rest of the DT? I don’t want to start reading a 7-book series if I’m just going to be disappointed in the end.
August 28, 2008 at 23:38
Matthew Conway
I don’t know about the later books, because I’ve yet to read them. When I was younger I had an omnibus of the first three parts of the series, and I can highly recommend those.
There seem to be two camps of Stephen King fans who feel very differently about the DT series. There are those who regard it as his magnum opus and think everything else is peripheral, and there are those who think The Stand is the be all end all of Stephen King and that anything he does outside of horror is a total failure.
My feeling on any long series that fails to deliver for the reader towards the end… just stop reading them. I hear people complaining about how bad the Wheel of Time series started getting as it wore on. Well, just move on and read something else! That shouldn’t stop you from enjoying the prior books in the series, right?