The Nerdy Narrative 40.3K subscribers · Nov 21, 2023

The King and I || The Stephen King Book Tag

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Disliked

the reason why I should have dnfed fairy tale the first section of that book was classic King beautifully written characters character interactions Slice of Life Prime King writing but once we got into the fantasy portion of that novel he didn't carry that same energy forward with the other characters that we meet along the way and these characters were based on fairy tale characters that we've grown up with there was nothing new there and I found them to be very flat on the page and boring and I just kept thinking it was going to get better and it didn't

Disliked

Holly I almost dnfed because I didn't think I was going to be able to keep pushing through all of the political stuff which was more prevalent than it has been in any of his previous books

Mixed

I've never read a Stephen King book and thought to myself this could have been shorter I love his writing style I've always vibed with it I love how he writes his characters I love meeting every single character that lives in the town wherever the story takes place I just really get into that it sets the scene it really gets me invested in the people even though I know I shouldn't because most of the time it's a horror I know the probability that the vast majority of people are not going to survive and I'm getting attached to him and it's only going to hurt later I do it anyway I love it so I never had a problem with the length of his novel but as far as which of his books were tough for me to read I would say it but I can't tell you why because it's a spoiler but those of you who have read it ties back into that big fear of mine you know exactly what I'm referencing

Loved

I had a lot of questions but I wanted the answers to those questions and what you don't realize is this is a road map of the entire Dark Tower series a lot of people of the series will tell you to read this one last I say read it first and then after you finish book seven come back and reread it because that is where the true magic and beauty of the Gunslinger comes to Bear