Dan
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...a huuuuuge waste of everyone's time.
I recently finished this series (well I skimmed the last book in frustration). And I have returned to tell you that you can all save yourself a lot of trouble and not read them at all. Clocking in at just under 4000 pages, nothing meaningful ever happens in the series. People that die don't really die, characters that were throw-aways in the early books get rewritten later on. The whole story has no plan from the beginning, and it is painful to watch it meander. No matter what happens, or how the situation might relate to any sort of reality, the only rules that govern these characters are the rules that Stephen King makes up on the fly. Stephen King even writes himself into this one, and it is painful to read.
Meaningless self contained side plots fill up the pages and don't move the story anywhere; There is basically a whole book about attacking a town, that could be summed up with two words and still detract nothing from the rest of the story:
If a character is in a tight spot, they get a hunch, or a magic portal opens, or someone saves them out of the blue. If nobody exists to save them, whammo!, suddenly a new character, motivated by an invisible hand is written in just for that job, and then is suddenly forgotten about. If someone important is going to die, you learn about their impending doom like 300 pages before it happens, and then get hammered about how immutable their fate is.
I can basically sum it up by saying, none of the events of the story have any actual meaningful relation to or impact on any other events. None of the books have any cohesion. You might as well just read the groaner of an ending of the last book and you would feel the same amount of disappointment as if you had read the entire series.
I recently finished this series (well I skimmed the last book in frustration). And I have returned to tell you that you can all save yourself a lot of trouble and not read them at all. Clocking in at just under 4000 pages, nothing meaningful ever happens in the series. People that die don't really die, characters that were throw-aways in the early books get rewritten later on. The whole story has no plan from the beginning, and it is painful to watch it meander. No matter what happens, or how the situation might relate to any sort of reality, the only rules that govern these characters are the rules that Stephen King makes up on the fly. Stephen King even writes himself into this one, and it is painful to read.
Meaningless self contained side plots fill up the pages and don't move the story anywhere; There is basically a whole book about attacking a town, that could be summed up with two words and still detract nothing from the rest of the story:
Eddie died
If a character is in a tight spot, they get a hunch, or a magic portal opens, or someone saves them out of the blue. If nobody exists to save them, whammo!, suddenly a new character, motivated by an invisible hand is written in just for that job, and then is suddenly forgotten about. If someone important is going to die, you learn about their impending doom like 300 pages before it happens, and then get hammered about how immutable their fate is.
I can basically sum it up by saying, none of the events of the story have any actual meaningful relation to or impact on any other events. None of the books have any cohesion. You might as well just read the groaner of an ending of the last book and you would feel the same amount of disappointment as if you had read the entire series.
