• CitizenKong@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Personally I think the first three novels are very strong and the fourth a good prequel too. It goes off the rails after that one though, like a crazy chu chu train so to speak.

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      9 days ago

      I like them as standalone King stories, but hated how he tried to marry all his works (and others works…) into his ill-defined ego-centric universe.

      I liked the last chapter of the last book as a continuation of the Gunslinger

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        I didn’t mind the connection between other books all that much, but the self-insertion, Dr. Dooms and Harry Potter snitches were a bit much and almost felt like parody.