Entertaining enough but damn the ending was abrupt. Suckilly so. This book also makes me even more annoyed at the way Flagg meets his end in DT.
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Entertaining enough but damn the ending was abrupt. Suckilly so. This book also makes me even more annoyed at the way Flagg meets his end in DT.
One of my favourite books ever, a real fairytale. I was probably a teenager when I first read it but I still love it today, in fact I had to replace it when the cover fell off my original copy!
I remember reading this about 7 years ago and not really enjoying it that much :( but i'm always willing to have a little re-read (especially if it's tower related) so i've just bought a copy for £2 on Ebay with no postage n Packaging :) so when I finally finish the final dark tower book i'll probably work my way round to reading it :)
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I wasn't enthralled either. Pleasantly diverted, sure. I was certainly never tempted to put it down and never come back (like I did with Insomnia) But as was previously said, "they can't all be gold". And again, I really hated the abrupt ending. I have this vision of Mrs. King walking into SK's study and saying:
TK: Dinner's ready!
SK: But honey, I'm almost done..just few more pages.
TK: I"m sick of your "few more pages" shit! Get your ass downstairs and eat your goddamn dinner that I just spent 2 hours making!
SK: Dammit woman! You're breaking my train of thought! I might not be able to pick it up again!
TK: Oh boo fucking hoo!
SK: Well, fuck! Its too late now! Dammit! *takes a predinner bong hit* Thanks for fucking up my ending, bitch! All for your shitty meatloaf and peas!
I really liked this book. Im pretty into fantasy stuff, and something about this at the time i read it was just what the doctor ordered.
I found it to be a great adventure story. I also enjoyed seeing two more names for Flagg.
any King medieval/fantasy is welcome i loved it 10 years ago and its still a good book ......it's short too ..............not a big commitment for somebody
Quote:Yes, I remember him thinking about:
Spoiler:
In my second reading of the DT series, I almost highlighted sentences that touched on other books and wrote in the margins which book they were from. In the end, I couldn't bring myself to deface even mass market paperbacks. :) 03-11-2010 01:24 AMJeanBecause it was unprecedentedly boring, pointless, poor in characters, and just lacking common logic. To prevent possible arguments: bears love books for children. Every third book they read or reread is a children's. But there are good children's book, and poor ones; for me, TEotD belongs to the latter group. (so does Coraline, for that matter) 03-21-2010 11:21 AMpathoftheturtleWell, you at least have to respect SK for trying to practice what he preaches.EotD certainly is not overburdened with logic.Quote:
"...Most parents quite rightly recognize the fact that children are mad, in the classic sense of that word. But I'm not altogether sure that killing Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy is the same thing as 'rationality.' For children, the rationality of madness seems to work remarkably well. For one thing, it keeps the thing in the closet at bay."
~ Danse Macabre
This is more fable than fairy tale. King doesn't achieve archetypes. His players are just shallow caricatures.
We get several nice morals, but that's not the real purpose of good prose fiction, a point which SK himself had often stressed before.
Still, if you're going to write a thinly-veiled philosophical tract, you could do far worse in choosing the philosophy.Quote:
"...Pigs also do God's bidding, I believe, and my shame and grief are very great. If God wills me to live, I must, but if God wills me to die and has sent such a pig as you to do the killing, that is very well."
~ The Eyes of the Dragon
08-17-2011 02:42 AMRolandLoverThis is the next King book I'm going to read since I've read it has some similiarities with DT like the kingdom was in the land of Delain, the Gunslinger kingdom was also in the land of Delain, the queen was from a poor western Barony like Susan Delgado was from Mejis, and the King is named Roland as our Gunslinger. 08-17-2011 08:42 AMHammerto predictable for me was ok nothing great 08-17-2011 10:32 AMDarkthoughtsIt's one of my favourite King books. I think you have to throw logic away when it comes to true fairy tales, I have the original Grimm Tales and some of those are only three paragraphs and as nonsenical and illogical as you like, but that's the style. It's whimsy with the occasional moral chucked in. 08-17-2011 11:29 AMWeDealInLeadHere's my two cents no one asked for. I'd rather read something like Hearts in Atlantis than The Eyes. I find HIA has more to do with King's literally world and levels of the tower than TEOTD. Sure, Flagg is in it but HIA is more in line with the parallel worlds theory. 08-17-2011 12:12 PMJean 08-17-2011 12:22 PMBen Staad 08-17-2011 12:26 PMJeanwell, yes, Eyes is on the top of my list of least liked King books 08-17-2011 12:31 PMBen Staad 08-17-2011 12:37 PMJean 08-17-2011 04:17 PMRolandLover