My wife read this last month and won’t shut up about it :)
Finished book 1 of the Red Rising books. Not sure I continue with it soon. I think there are more interesting books that are higher up on my list than this. I almost quitted when they started modifying Darrow to become some super human.
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I really hated book 5
I’ll still read book 6 
I started this and stopped at some point, need to go back. It seemed good.
I read the first one a while back cuz my friends rave about the series but it was just kinda whatever
Yeah “whatever” kinda describes my feelings up the book.
Started my Dark Tower journey in March or April. Hit a big wall with Song of Susannah, I have no desire to open it up and read. I can’t get into the duel personality stuff at all and i find myself skipping pages when I know it’ll just be some character talking to it’s other half. Tempted to just read a plot outline or something for the rest of series since I’d like to know how it ends. Don’t think I’ve ever done that before.
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Just power through!
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Remember that each book starts with an AMAZING recap of the story so far.
Empowers you to skip if needed as well as go wtf I am going back to read that!!!
Dark Tower is atrociously boring, and there seems to be some large-scale conspiracy to suggest otherwise. I’m still really irritated that I let myself get punked into reading three damn books based on the wildly false promise that it was going to start paying off.
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How’d it go, Risky? (Fairy Tale)
I’ve got about 75 pages left in 'salem’s Lot, then I gotta figure out what to do next. I’ve got Kavalier and Klay on the shelf, but I’m also itching for more King. Needful Things…Dolores Claiborne…Insomnia…
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Needful things for sure.
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Sad to say I quit and read the plot summary. The opening chapter made me look just like the Fry meme. His long novels brought me a unique comfort when I was a teen, but I think I’ve been clarifying since about 2005 that I love only a dozen or so King novels but am a RAVENOUS fan of his short stories.
King is like Ridley Scott. No one tells stories like him if he has a focused vision and a great ending. Most of the time, he does not and I’m just marveling at him swinging and missing harder than anyone else lol.
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I wish I hated this but while I will take the second book with me to a deserted island, the rest are easily standard wtf is this stuff from King.
Wizards and glass though
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Okay fair but there are gigantic chunks of that book where it’s not Wizard and Glass quality
I felt the same about the first book. I am a semi fan of King, I liked It and The Stand. However the Gunslinger was boring and badly written IMO. To the extent that I got so mad at the friend who recommended it that we had a little spat about it. How could you recommend this to me?
Luckily I didn’t keep reading the series in the hope it got better
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Did you stop at book one?? That’s the most boring of the entire bunch and IIRC he wrote it in college. It’s easy to skip it and just read the recap at the beginning of book 2.
If you thought book 2 was boring then lol I ken do nuthin fer ye
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Crash,
Do not let yourself be duped. Save yourself from further Dark Tower. Some of us didn’t hold strong, and we have the boredom scars to show for it.
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