Dark Tower-- to read or not to???

[91rewoT]

Try "The Green Mile", even if you've seen the movie...it's awesome. And pleeeeease don't cheat yourself out of the best story ever written just because it starts off slow...it's worth every minute...

[All Hail The Crimson King]

And pleeeeease don't cheat yourself out of the best story ever written just because it starts off slow...it's worth every minute...

I strongly agree. Do not cheat yourself out reading the Dark Tower Series because it starts slow. Look at it like a calm before the storm.

[Snaggletooth]

It comes down to a matter of patience; all will be revealed. I enjoy slower paced books...makes me think that the author truly cared about the story.

[dwalters]

Maybe it's just me but I didn't find The Gunslinger slow at all. Quite the opposite actually. For me, I just flew through the first three Dark Tower books like nothing. My only piece of advice would be to make sure you have read as many of the other stories that tie in to the DT series as possible (they're sometimes notated in bold in the listings of his other works). It's not that you won't enjoy the series otherwise, but it will definitely make the experience that much richer.

[1-Book-And-Counting]

I've just started to read it and I'm around halfway through and I have to say it starts off slow but it still dosn't feel slow if you know what I mean. Really loved the ending of the first chapter when he is in Tull that has really got me excited about the whole series.

[TPG555]

The first time I read The Gunslinger, I found it difficult to get through and somewhat slow. The second time, with my eyes wide open, it was fast paced and captivating.

[Kaleidoscope]

I'm considering starting the Dark Tower. After reading UtD, I'm getting back into SK territory and the Dark Tower has always intrigued me because it's so long. I do like a good series. I think I'm gonna read some other ones first. I may even wait until my birthday or Christmas and get the boxset. But I think I definitely want to give it a try.

[luckylauren21]

The first time I attempted to read the dark tower books I had an original paperback of the Gunslinger and I barely got to the weigh station before I put it down and never touched it again for a year. The next year I was at the bookstore and noticed a new paperback of it that said that it was revised and expanded so I picked it up and it had the note from Stephen in it saying that he had revised the book to make it easier for new readers of the tower to enter the story easier. I bought it that day and finished it in the next two. By far the best investment in a book to help me enter the epic journey to the tower.

[KyleKarabekian]

Read the Dark Tower series! It is such a good story!

Although, for a lot of people(not me though!) The Gunslinger (the first one) doesn't kick off the series. Some people say the second book does. So if you do try them and don't like The Gunslinger, give the second book a try.

[Burbot Dog]

I too just restarted Dark Tower after returning to mr. Kings books from a long hiatus with Under the Dome.

Last time I went as far as the Song of Susannah, but at the time it was the last book of the series and so I can't remember much of it, other than I liked that the best in the series.

Slightly offtopic, I recently read that emotions kind of stick longer than factual memories and while I can't remember any of the plot after Drawing of the Three, I seem to remember Song of Susannah to be quite a saddening book, much more so than the others. I'm not sure if the Dark Tower would be the best described as 'fast moving' though.

I would recommend the series as I would any good book.