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I just finished reading this, took a few days, more than I expected. The first 3 dark tower books I couldn't put down and flew through; this one started well, gripping, but in the middle it slowed down and dragged a bit.
We start where we left off in Dark Tower III, it's fairly fast paced until we get a bit of Roland's back story. Whilst I love hearing about what happened to Roland before he met Jake and made a new ka-tet, this story in a story was slow paced and dragged, you were just waiting to get to the good bits.
Once Roland had told his story, there wasn't much left to read. King only moves their journey to the dark tower a little bit. Overall, you do get to know Roland a lot better, which is a good thing. I am still looking forward to reading the next book.

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Miguel Covarrubias (143 KP) rated The Talisman in Books

Apr 30, 2019

The Talisman

Stephen King, Peter Straub | 1984 | Horror, Science Fiction/Fantasy

8.3

(30 Ratings)

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I wanted to like it. I really did, but there were sections that seemed to drag a bit. It was similar to the Dark Tower, however, it just didn't grab my interest well enough.

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Sarah Betts (103 KP) rated The Wolves of the Calla - Dark Tower V in Books

Dec 26, 2019 (Updated Dec 26, 2019)

The Wolves of the Calla - Dark Tower V

Stephen King | 2003 | Horror, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Thriller

8.5

(23 Ratings)

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The dark tower lives! (0 more)

Honestly, following up "Wizard and Glass" which tore out my soul and stomped on it is probably why the second have of TDT didn't work for me. Just left me cold.

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Sarah (7798 KP) shared own rating to Prequels, Sequels, Remakes and Adaptations in Orbs

Apr 23, 2018

Seen as they’ve just added The Dark Tower on Sky Cinema, i felt the need to share this. By far one of the worst adaptations I’ve ever seen, of an absolutely epic book series. Just dire.

Sarah (7798 KP) rated The Dark Tower (2017) in Movies

Aug 20, 2017

The Dark Tower (2017)

2017 | Horror, Sci-Fi, Western

5.6

(68 Ratings)

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Stephen King let them make this?

I'll start off by saying I knew I was going to hate this film. From the moment I heard of the casting and then saw the first trailer. I get the justification for them making this film completely different (i.e. Horn of Eld - but was that even in the film?!), but for me it just doesn't work.

The book series is a fantasy masterpiece, but they appear to have made a standalone Dark Tower film pulled together with a vague mishmash of characters and ideas from the entire book series. It just doesn't work, especially not in a paltry 90 minutes. This is just far too different from the books - the characters are undeveloped, their motives are unclear. You almost have to have read the books to get an understanding of the characters as it just doesn't come across in this. Casting for me was poor too. McConaughey and Elba are fantastic actors but it doesn't show in this, they're let down by a poor script and a poor plot.

My only hope for this film is that it prompts those who haven't read the books to pick them up and realise how awesome they are.