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3.6 AVERAGE
3.6 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
3,8 for this book. My brain got so confused while I was reading that book! At first you don't understand anything, and little by little you learn informations. You need to be patient to read this book, and some words were complicated!
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I didn't hold out a lot of hope for this book because I had read so many say "if you can get through the first book" the series is great. But I actually enjoyed this book way more than I expected to. Especially towards the end.
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I appreciate the slick world building with minimal expository writing, along with the biblical allusions, but it is clear the plot was a number of short stories mangled together producing a lack of clarity and propulsion.
slow-paced
Me sorprende ver tantas opiniones positivas de este libro. No puedo opinar de la seria en su conjunto pero el primer libro deja mucho que desear.
Este libro es un compendio de todo lo que no hay que hacer en una novela.
Lo peor es que el mundo tiene ciertas particularidades y los personajes tienen ciertos poderes.
Pero en ningun momento te explican como funciona el mundo, o que poderes tienen los personajes.
Las cosas simplemente pasan en conveniencia a la historia y punto. A veces sin ni siquiera logica interna pero no parece importar.
El libro te suelta directamente a la accion, afectando personajes que no te importan por tanto inclusos muertes me dejaban bastante indiferente. De hecho todo incluido el pico dramatico y el final me han dejado bastante indiferente.
El protagonista que insiste en que el no es hombre de mirar atras sino al futuro se tira la mitad del libro en flashbacks.
En un momento de hecho alguien tiene un flashback dentro de un flashback. Y esto es casi al principio cuando aun no sabes ni donde te han soltado.
El texto tambien me parece raro, seran los dialogos o quiza las descripciones pero en un par de momentos no estoy muy seguro de que esta pasando.
Este libro es un compendio de todo lo que no hay que hacer en una novela.
Lo peor es que el mundo tiene ciertas particularidades y los personajes tienen ciertos poderes.
Pero en ningun momento te explican como funciona el mundo, o que poderes tienen los personajes.
Las cosas simplemente pasan en conveniencia a la historia y punto. A veces sin ni siquiera logica interna pero no parece importar.
El libro te suelta directamente a la accion, afectando personajes que no te importan por tanto inclusos muertes me dejaban bastante indiferente. De hecho todo incluido el pico dramatico y el final me han dejado bastante indiferente.
El protagonista que insiste en que el no es hombre de mirar atras sino al futuro se tira la mitad del libro en flashbacks.
En un momento de hecho alguien tiene un flashback dentro de un flashback. Y esto es casi al principio cuando aun no sabes ni donde te han soltado.
El texto tambien me parece raro, seran los dialogos o quiza las descripciones pero en un par de momentos no estoy muy seguro de que esta pasando.
I will always be a Stephen King fan. I picked up this book from a thrift store a few years ago for a dollar. Hadn’t really thought about it until recently getting back into reading. I am always compelled by how King can have you wrapped into a story (confused, pondering) until literally the last page. I couldn’t believe how easily the book went down, but also, how the climax just kept going and going and going. There are the usual slightly disturbing descriptions and sometimes strangely sexual themes that King does. He really does just have a way of making you feel. I just put the book down, and am about to pick up the second book in this series right now.
My ONLY complaint about it, and it really is an artifact of the books age versus my own: some of the language is very historical in a way. For example, he uses the words “palaver”, “poke”, and “gunna” a lot. There are other words throughout that gave me pause to have to look up, but it broke the pace of reading. It didn’t bother me too much to have to look it up. Then I had the word in my head to understand further in the book.
I swallowed this book in just over two days and I am a very slow reader. It really does just drag you in once you let it pull you like, in my experience, many of King’s books. Put aside some time and dive into the world of the Dark Tower.
My ONLY complaint about it, and it really is an artifact of the books age versus my own: some of the language is very historical in a way. For example, he uses the words “palaver”, “poke”, and “gunna” a lot. There are other words throughout that gave me pause to have to look up, but it broke the pace of reading. It didn’t bother me too much to have to look it up. Then I had the word in my head to understand further in the book.
I swallowed this book in just over two days and I am a very slow reader. It really does just drag you in once you let it pull you like, in my experience, many of King’s books. Put aside some time and dive into the world of the Dark Tower.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This book was not for me. Also, sometimes one adjective is enough.
It starts of slow and is pretty dry and stays that way for the entirety of the book. King takes forever to reveal anything about any of the characters, why they're doing what they're doing, and what is going on in this world. He's constantly throwing out clues and tidbits, some of which he circles back to later and some are never mentioned again or lead nowhere.
Most of the character interactions in this book are pretty bizarre. All of the conversations are a weird call and response. Think premade pass phrases from spy movies like, you'll find a woman wearing a blue at at this location and say X to her then she'll respond with Y. Like that except all of the conversations are weird.
What bothered me most was the tone of "predestination" and I don't know if it was intentional or not. It feels like every character knows exactly what is going to happen and even with that knowledge they take actions that directly lead to that event, even if they don't want to or they die as a results. It felt like every single action by every single character in this book was predestined and they all knew that beforehand and didn't try to fight it in the slightest.
It's an interesting concept and setting but is so slow and riddled with so much unnecessary descriptive language that it takes forever to get through.
I went into this book with high hopes and was about a quarter of the way through when I realized I didn't like it at all. Kept convincing myself that the pace was going to pick up and some answers would be revealed and that never really happened. The end just leaves you with more questions and still does not answer why Roland is doing what he's doing other than he's sworn to it. This was my first Stephen King novel. I won't be coming back to this book or reading any further in the series. Also, all the other King books on my TBR were just bumped way down the list. I don't know if this is his normal writing style or not but if I start any of his other books and find out it is, I will DNF it immediately.
Interesting idea and I appreciated some of what he was trying to with the writing style but I didn't enjoy it in the slightest.
It starts of slow and is pretty dry and stays that way for the entirety of the book. King takes forever to reveal anything about any of the characters, why they're doing what they're doing, and what is going on in this world. He's constantly throwing out clues and tidbits, some of which he circles back to later and some are never mentioned again or lead nowhere.
Most of the character interactions in this book are pretty bizarre. All of the conversations are a weird call and response. Think premade pass phrases from spy movies like, you'll find a woman wearing a blue at at this location and say X to her then she'll respond with Y. Like that except all of the conversations are weird.
What bothered me most was the tone of "predestination" and I don't know if it was intentional or not. It feels like every character knows exactly what is going to happen and even with that knowledge they take actions that directly lead to that event, even if they don't want to or they die as a results. It felt like every single action by every single character in this book was predestined and they all knew that beforehand and didn't try to fight it in the slightest.
It's an interesting concept and setting but is so slow and riddled with so much unnecessary descriptive language that it takes forever to get through.
I went into this book with high hopes and was about a quarter of the way through when I realized I didn't like it at all. Kept convincing myself that the pace was going to pick up and some answers would be revealed and that never really happened. The end just leaves you with more questions and still does not answer why Roland is doing what he's doing other than he's sworn to it. This was my first Stephen King novel. I won't be coming back to this book or reading any further in the series. Also, all the other King books on my TBR were just bumped way down the list. I don't know if this is his normal writing style or not but if I start any of his other books and find out it is, I will DNF it immediately.
Interesting idea and I appreciated some of what he was trying to with the writing style but I didn't enjoy it in the slightest.