Stephen King told me not to use adverbs

[Jay P Lang]

Man is it just me or does The Gunslinger have more adverbs then fat women under a bingo sign? Its terribly difficult to laborously read completely when quickly and speedily looking searchingly for the voice of the roughly editted shortly drawn sentences.

The story is good so far but its a slow ride.

[Bryan James]

Man, is it just me[?]

Yep. And Nope.

~BJS

[pathoftheturtle]

In the revised edition, King cut lots of adverbs out. Are you reading the original?

[davemelnick]

Given, it is a slow start, but has a very quick pace (page-turner) the last few chapters.

Man is it just me or does The Gunslinger have more adverbs then fat women under a bingo sign? Its terribly difficult to laborously read completely when quickly and speedily looking searchingly for the voice of the roughly editted shortly drawn sentences.

The story is good so far but its a slow ride.

[Deme]

The story is good so far but its a slow ride.

It'll get better near the end, and into the next books, for the most part.

[DancingCorpse]

I have to confess i found The Gunslinger very difficult and idk the word to use, like navigating through a swamp! I don't hold anything against SK because the rest of the series is fantastic and of course it was very early on when he wrote this, but i usually find the first one very hard to get through. It has it's moments certainly, the mountains for sure, and it is a decent novel in itself.

[taipeidryad]

My 1st attempt at The Gunslinger was unsuccessful, and it was a couple of years before I tried again. The second time began a journey that took almost a decade to complete. Drawing of the 3 and I got on the plane to Asia, first couple of years, I was ... busy, didn't read much, except for numerous trips to Thailand, several to Hong Kong, and one to Korea, Roland always came on those trips.

[Doc Wilson]

I found the Gunslinger such hard going that I had no interest in reading the rest until the series was finished and I was out of other stuff to read. Lucky for me the second volume made up for it.

[tyciol]

I never notice things like adverbs. It's been a while since I read this so it might be interesting to have another go through and see if I notice something like this.

It's hard to picture how a book can be better be eliminating adverbs though, wouldn't the verbs be bland without them? Maybe I have an inclusionist 'more is better' personality. Perhaps I originally read the revised and didn't see them to get annoyed by them?

[*Iris*]

I' ve read The Gunslinger translated, so I can't really say my opinion about these harmful adverbs. I don' t know what I would have done if I had the English book in my hands, but I probably wouldn't have noticed it in purpose -except if I wanted to be educated from his writting (in which I intend to do it in practice very soon - I' ve already read the On Writting)

But, I' ve heard that many people who read The Gunslinger, complaint about its slow pace and that they had no interest to read more. Personally, I was surprised from The Gunslinger because it was deferent from the others. It seemed like it was no St. King who wrote it (I want to believe that it was not translation' s fault -I'm just kidding, translation was just fine *no, no I was not the translator* ) and I don't mean that it was bad. It just made me wonder things, and it I din't lost my interest in it. The end of the book triggered my curiosity about the continue of Roland's story