Too be honest, they were annoying. They seemed very fake, with bad, unrealistic dialogue. I'm talking specificly about Eddie and his girlfriend. It's been a few years so I can't name any specifics though.Originally Posted by Eventine
Too be honest, they were annoying. They seemed very fake, with bad, unrealistic dialogue. I'm talking specificly about Eddie and his girlfriend. It's been a few years so I can't name any specifics though.
Perhaps you weren't in a good frame of mind to read them. I've noticed this about myself at times, I'll begin reading something and it just doesn't click with me so I put it down and months, sometimes years later I'll go back to it and find that I absolutely love everything about it. This happened to me with Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, I just couldn't get into it so I put it down and I believe it was five years later I picked it back up and it was awesome.
I started out as a sci/fi fan 18 years ago and have read a majority of works written by the following authors:
Robert Heinlein
Isaac Asimov
Michael Crichton
Orson Scott Card
L. Ron Hubbard
Stephen King
Larry Niven
Frederik Pohl
Arthur C. Clarke
Frank Herbert
Ray Bradbury
Dan Simmons
H.G. Wells
Franz Kafka
Robert Silverberg
Harry Turtledove
Robert Ludlum
Poul Anderson
Greg Bear
Kurt Vonnegut
William Gibson
Aldous Huxley
Ben Bova
Tom Clancy
Clive Cussler
James A Michener
Jules Verne
Zecharia Sitchin
Dean R Koontz
Greg Bear
Spider Robinson
I never really gave much thought to Fantasy as a genre worth investing in. I found that after reading Stephan Kings' Dark Tower series, I washed up on the shore of "Fantasy". I really enjoyed this series and recommend reading all of the books.
Are you talking about the made up words and phrases for Roland's world, or more about the speech patterns King will give some of his characters with pet nicknames, phrases and terms that they use a lot?
I can understand how King doing this could get annoying for some people but it doesn't really bother me because I figure most peoples' irl speech patterns would look silly if they were written down.
Although the Suzanna character did get grating for me when she would be speaking as her mean, bitter personality.
Well, you weren't particularly meant to warm to her. Detta was, if you think about it, the embodiment of oppressed blacks in Odetta/Detta's era.
Nope, no problems with made up languages, in fact I tend to like them as it really takes you into the book. Again, it's been a few years since I read them but I remember reading it and thinking, there is no way that character with that background is going to talk like that. I guess it's really just Suzanna and Eddie I had a problem with, King just went over the top with those two.
Dialogue aside, biggest problem was the story just wasn't very tight. Meandering with no real purpose form one problem to the next.
Again, that's kinda the point. It's a series that isn't about the ending, it's about the journey and what happens on it.
Don't read this garbage. Three years ago I wasted a solid month of my life reading this series. That's a month I'll never get back. Weak plot, poor ending, and just an all around boring series imo. I would rank this series my bottom 5 fantasy series read of all time. STICK TO HORROR MR. KING!
In case you're wondering, when I start a series I always finish it...although I should have made an exception and dropped this one around book three.
Or people could make up their own minds about it, which we encourage here. I'd recommend it, most of the members of this site who've read it would too. But I don't think any of us think it's flawless.
Also, King's best novels tend not to be his horror ones.
I read almost everything King put out in the 80s/early 90s but I've somehow never picked up this series.
Extremely mixed reactions on this thread make me think this must be worth looking at so I can at least have an opinion of my own!
Funny that people complain about a meandering plot,but when T.V. shows do it, NO ONE COMPLAINS.I would prefer a more straight forward plot myself, but I can deal with it.
Also I challenge anyone here to say that Roland Deschain is not a badass. That may not be a selling point for some, but dammit, I would even challenge someone who hates the series to say he isn't.
Well then my point was the point sucks. What was your point?
well yeah, he was based on the man with no name. How could he not be badass.
My point was clearly made in the post you quoted.
Michigan, just for the sake of curiosity, what would you consider a great fantasy series along the lines of The Dark Tower?
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