Bookish Thoughts

On some level, whatever I read after Three Parts Dead  was going to suffer by comparison. That book was so perfect for me that it was unlikely I would like the next one as much. But I don't think that's the only reason that I was lukewarm on this book. This book, the second in King's The Dark Tower  series was fine. Parts of it were exciting. Parts were interesting. But overall I feel like I just didn't get it. I spent a lot of it wondering what the point was, and I never really warmed up to any of the characters. I bought the next two books in the series, and I'll probably get around to reading them. But I'm not particularly excited about them, and I don't really see myself finishing this series at this point. A lot of people love it, and I expected to have stronger feelings after two book. I think maybe this one just isn't for me.

I've been waffling about The Dark Tower  for years now. I've wanted to read it. But I didn't know if I wanted it to be my first Stephen King. But his other books are all so long, and the first of these was, at least, very short. Then the movie came out and I bought The Gunslinger . Then everyone hated the movie, so I let it sit on my shelf for a while. Then I picked up the second book at a used book sale on a whim and decided that it was finally time to just sit down and read this. I didn't entirely know what to expect, going in to it. I've heard that it's slow and boring, easily the worst book of the series. I've also heard that it's the best book of the series. Several people told me it was their favorite book, bar none. I had plenty of room to make up my own mind about this book. What happened, which I did not expect, was that I fell somewhere in the middle. This book was fine. It was slow, but I didn't mind that. It had a really interesting s...