reading the dark tower series (stephen king)
Bruh, so like…Trevor, my husband, heard me talk about my book a ton over the years (obviously), and as I was wrapping it up he kept hounding me to read The Dark Tower series.
He thought I’d really like it based on the ideas I was telling him in my own novel, and said that the parts where I was talking about other dimensions reminded him of King’s series a lot.
But I was too busy with my own book. I was in the process of writing and editing and kept putting it off.
Upon publishing, I finally started it and am now almost done with the second book in the series…
Annnnnnd, I somehow feel like I ripped off Stephen King?
LMFAO, not really, they are completely different stories…but whoa.
It’s the same kind of overall thought. The same principle. The same multi-dimensional, subconscious, multiple people all being one, being guided to an infinite space in time kind of piece of work.
The first book definitely bored me, until the end. Until it didn’t.
Then I finally got it, when he is talking to The Man in Black.
It all clicked together, and I’m like oooookay…I’m going to like this (the only other part that I really liked from the first book was the big shootout and that was short-lived and also met with hurt for the characters, but other than that it took a minute to get through because meh).
But that talk with The Man in Black…the explanations. JAKE. It all got to me so much. It sat with me heavily and I’m like ohhhh, I see what Trev meant now.
Now I’m reading The Drawing of the Three, where the gunslinger enters three interdimensional doors, and it truly feels like everything I wanted to accomplish in my own piece of work. Like GOSH DARN IT IS SO GOOD.
It is done so well, without any of the bullshit, and truly makes me just want to chuck my book out the window. Not really, but it just…ugh. chefs kiss
My book is like the girl version of it. Instead of guns and lobstrosities there’s love and mushrooms and motherhood, lol. But you know what, I love that. There’s a place for both of us. There’s a place for me, and if I’m at the same table as Stephen Mothafuckin’ King, I’ll fucking take it.
Anyways, it is just really stinking’ good, and I respect it so much.
I have never read too much King (really liked The Longest Walk mostly), but man oh man. This one holds such a special piece of my heart.
So if you want a wild ride, but written in the personification of so many ideas and addictions, weaved through non-time and thrown through doors of other realities, this is the series for you.
It’s exactly my cup of tea, and I am drinking it doooown right now.
