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I've heard that Stephen King considers the Dark Tower series his greatest work[1][2], but almost none of his fans do[3][4]. The intent of a work can be far divo

I've heard that Stephen King considers the Dark Tower series his greatest work[1][2], but almost none of his fans do[3][4]. The intent of a work can be far divorced from the public reception of it. [1] https://darktower.fandom.com/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_Series https://darktower.fandom.com/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_Series [2] https://stephenking.com/darktower/ https://stephenking.com/darktower/ [3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-personal-shopper/2021/02/14/best-presidents-day-sales-deals-2021/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-personal-shopper/2021/02...? [4] https://stephenking.com/xf/index.php?threads/which-king-book-sold-the-best.18839/ https://stephenking.com/xf/index.php?threads/which-king-book...

dash2 6y ago
Reminds me of Archy on Shakespeare [1]: here i am ben says bill nothing but a lousy playwright and with anything like luck in the breaks i might have been a fairly decent sonnet writer i might have been a poet if i had kept away from the theatre ... well says i pete bill s plays are highly esteemed to this day is that so says pete poor mutt little he would care what poor bill wanted was to be a poet [1] http://ianchadwick.com/blog/three-archy-poems-by-don-marquis/ http://ianchadwick.com/blog/three-archy-poems-by-don-marquis...
tincholio 6y ago
Well, the first 4 books are some of his best writing, I think... The final 3 suck terribly, and were a great disappointment (to me, of course, maybe some people actually liked them)
- agentwiggles 6y ago
  Overall I agree, but I actually quite like the ending of the series. I've read lots of folks online who absolutely hated what ultimately happens to Roland - I thought it was a cool ending which was very much in keeping with the sort of "cosmic cycles" theme of the books. That said, there is a _lot_ of junk in those final three books, and the seventh one in particular drops the ball in several disappointing ways before it ends.
  - arkh 6y ago
    It was the best ending possible. The first line of the first book was what hooked me on this universe, so I loved reading the last line years later.

dash2 6y ago

Reminds me of Archy on Shakespeare [1]: here i am ben says bill nothing but a lousy playwright and with anything like luck in the breaks i might have been a fairly decent sonnet writer i might have been a poet if i had kept away from the theatre ... well says i pete bill s plays are highly esteemed to this day is that so says pete poor mutt little he would care what poor bill wanted was to be a poet [1] http://ianchadwick.com/blog/three-archy-poems-by-don-marquis/ http://ianchadwick.com/blog/three-archy-poems-by-don-marquis...

tincholio 6y ago

Well, the first 4 books are some of his best writing, I think... The final 3 suck terribly, and were a great disappointment (to me, of course, maybe some people actually liked them)

agentwiggles 6y ago
Overall I agree, but I actually quite like the ending of the series. I've read lots of folks online who absolutely hated what ultimately happens to Roland - I thought it was a cool ending which was very much in keeping with the sort of "cosmic cycles" theme of the books. That said, there is a _lot_ of junk in those final three books, and the seventh one in particular drops the ball in several disappointing ways before it ends.
- arkh 6y ago
  It was the best ending possible. The first line of the first book was what hooked me on this universe, so I loved reading the last line years later.