But I love this book and have so many questions and there are so many opinions I want to know from you guys, so I keep making them.
Does anyone here think that there are scenes in this book that are too long?
That's about it I guess.
But I love this book and have so many questions and there are so many opinions I want to know from you guys, so I keep making them.
Does anyone here think that there are scenes in this book that are too long?
That's about it I guess.
What book? The Gunslinger? Its awesome, read it especially the revised edition.
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meh long scenes are something that sai king is especially good at
the first 30 seconds of DT7 take place in like 30 pages
if the worlds gonna end then let's get it over with, i got shit to do
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Hey Billy , was there another question you wanted to ask.
The answer is within
all matter is energy, all energy is GOD
Does The Gunslinger have more scenes that are in your opinion too long than do other books? That is, "too long" compared to what?
As SK books go, which tend to be somewhat copiously descriptive, I thought that The Gunslinger was quite concise, with virtually no wasted pages.
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I thought we were finished with the 1st question, and that there were others.
But y'know, BC I tend to agree with you here. The Gunslinger was rather consise
and given its rather short length comparitivly speaking with other books by Sai King
hard to imagine too many wasted pages at all.
The answer is within
all matter is energy, all energy is GOD
IMHO the Gunslinger is perfect as it is. I mean the original.
Anyway I have edited the title of the thread so people can find out more easily if they are interested in the topic or not.
Roland would have understood.
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Don't know about particular scenes, but the book itself is, indeed, either too short or too long. Too short to be an enjoyable [first book of a] novel; too long to be what it actually feels like to me: a dark vision, an epigraph to the rest, a poem in prose.
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IDK, looking back I have to say that the Revised addition did feel like an improvement over the original, not that the original was bad or anything. I guess I'm of the school that if the author thought it needed revising then that was something I should pay attention to!!! LOL
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It did seem to "flow" a little better than the original.
As far as the "length of scenes", I'm still not really shore what you mean by that. It is a book, so I tend not to pay too much attention to "scenes" in that regard. He's telling a story and, to me at least, the length of "scenes" does not affect things as much. I love the story, and that's about it. How it would play out in another medium, like TV or Movie, is another thing altogether.
Sorry if that wasn't too much help OP.
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Obedient isn't in my repetoire.
I prefer the original for it's disjointedness. I feel it added to it's otherworldliness (Yes, it's a word dammit. ) I payed attention to his revision (even read it sometimes). I just disagree that it was necessarily an improvement in any way.
You know, that's a good point. Having finished the series and re-read it several times you lose a little of the magic (?) of the first time through and yeah, I can remember where the "dis-jointed-ness" of the original kind of enhanced the mystery of the DT world.
However, you really only get that the first time through. So if you were picking it up for the first time, yeah the original would be the way to go and then maybe the revised for subsequent re-reads.
Forgot about that aspect, Brice. Thanks for the trip down "memory lane".
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I've read it 25-30 times and still haven't lost it. True it's not the same as the first time, but I can still bring back those feelings from when I first read it. I am clinging to the magic like a security blanket. I've read the revised a few times (and like it), but to me most of the changes feel kinda' forced.
I've noticed I tend to agree with almost all of your thoughts and opinions regarding the series, which is more than I can say for most others here (not that I've ever outright disagreed with anyone, that I can think of off the top of my head).
Maybe I can clarify what I meant, though, for some of you who might still not understand what my point was: I have heard time and time again (and agree, honestly) that King is long winded and entirely too descriptive at certain times. I feel like this may have been the case a couple of times here or there in this book as well (I speak of the original). It almost bogs things down a little. But then there are scenes that are like one paragraph long, which in some cases amounts to one sentence, which, obviously, is really short. (To clarify, again, I'm defining a "scene" as the text between Roman numerals.)
Does anyone else think there are certain scenes which made you roll your wrist in that famous way that the gunslinger himself does to hurry along whoever might be speaking to him?
No, not me. Generally speaking, I can't say that I felt that way; but, again, I think it's relative to mindset. I like what Jean had to say about this topic, and I'd like to share an insight of his from another thread which strikes me as being even more relevant here --