Dark Tower (Gunslinger) Movie Trilogy

[bobdole369]

I'd probably have to read it as a stand-alone book to appreciate it... as it was, I spend the entire book thinking "when the fuck are we going to get back to the train?"

I did the same thing on readthru #1. I was actually pretty pissed. Then I reread the entire series and it fit a lot better. I stopped seeing it as "not the train" and more for "the rest of the story".

 

[cKGunslinger]

Because it sheds so much light on Roland's beginning! It's such a well told story of revenge, deceit, murder and not least of all love in a quasi-western setting. It's just brilliant.

WaG was an amazing piece of storytelling. Indeed, it was oddly placed and interrupted the flow of the series, but it was well worth the read. I've read the full series about 4 times now, but WaG an additional 2-3 times. It's good writing.

 

[destrekor]

I was familiar with the story and it still made me go wtf

I know I'm in the minority here, because it seems like most DT lovers cream themselves over Wizard and Glass, but I don't understand how a reader can be expected to get emotionally involved in a 600-page flashback when they already know the ending.

Sometimes in story telling, it doesn't matter if the reader already knows the ending.

Sometimes, the ending is even spelled out for you in the very beginning, but you still enjoy finding out the details and how that end point had been reached.

 

[cKGunslinger]

I was familiar with the story and it still made me go wtf

I know I'm in the minority here, because it seems like most DT lovers cream themselves over Wizard and Glass, but I don't understand how a reader can be expected to get emotionally involved in a 600-page flashback when they already know the ending.

Did Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers suck, because we all know who won the war?

 

[nageov3t]

Did Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers suck, because we all know who won the war?

if I was reading a book about the epic struggle between Churchill and Hitler and all of a sudden it dovetailed into a 600-page parenthetical aside about the time Churchill tried to save one of his army buddies... yeah, it probably would have sucked