The Animal Is Tired

Re:The Animal Is Tired by hutzlibu on Monday May 10, 2021 @03:55AM (#27103699)

"The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Some very powerful stories in there. The first book is pretty short so it is a good way to try it out. Though I think it hooks from the very start. "

I wasn't really hooked. I think it was a interesting read, but I got no motivation to read further. Might have been, because I read a note from King before, that he also did no knew yet, how the tower worked. And he just wrote freely to explore it, too. So I expected the story to have even bigger holes in the plot than his ordinary books and trouble to get the story lines together in a consistent way in the end, leaving too many logic errors.

But maybe I should give the tower a second try one day.

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Re:The Animal Is Tired by hijp on Monday May 10, 2021 @05:49AM (#27104319)

I read the first book and like you thought it was just interesting, but it was the juxtaposition of book one and two that made me go “i have to finish this”.

* not really a spoiler, it happens at the very start of book two [rot13] *

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some bits are a drag, some are so cheezy, but you just roll with it and it’s a fun ride with some amazing high points.

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Re:The Animal Is Tired by sam_goody on Monday May 10, 2021 @07:09AM (#27104651)

I'll just rot13 this and anyone who's interested will decode it in less time that it takes me to type it - why, most fellows here will just move each char thirteen to the left in their head...

I love HN

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Re:The Animal Is Tired by unbalancedevh on Monday May 10, 2021 @08:39AM (#27105315)

I enjoyed the first book in that series so much that after the first time I read it I immediately started it again. But every other book in the series was a disappointment compared to that. They all seemed to fall much more into his generic style.

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Re:The Animal Is Tired by climb_stealth on Monday May 10, 2021 @05:05AM (#27104051)

Hmmm, if the beginning wasn't convincing then I somewhat doubt that the rest of the series is going to be a much better experience. And yeah, I don't think the tower mechanics really work out in the end. But it didn't bother me personally.

I haven't actually read any other books by him.

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Re:The Animal Is Tired by hutzlibu on Monday May 10, 2021 @05:36PM (#27111165)

"I haven't actually read any other books by him. "

He's very good at coming up with creative plots and good storytelling - but after a while it all seems generic and kind of the same - and he is not good (or doesn't bother enough as people buy it anyway) to avoid lots of plotholes in the stories and logic gaps. Or rather to bring the story lines together in the end, he seems to use ductape.

So I enjoyed his short stories much more, as they were much more consistent, than the big, blown up "masterworks" of him.

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