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I think this book had quite some influence on the original Twin Peaks. The (first?) funeral scene gave me a lot of the same vibes as Laura’s funeral, and the towns of Twin Peaks and of Salem’s Lot doesn’t appear to be that different.
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I’m currently reading ”Maratonmarschen” by Richard Backman. It’s the first book I’m actually reading (as opposed to listening to) in a long while and it’s hard to get into the habit of reading. I’ve only gotten a few pages in but it’s really good.
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I finally finished ”reading” (listening to) Stephen King’s The Drawing of the Three today. As I’m looking back through the archives of this blog now I realize that I started this book in 2018. Wow, that’s a long time ago.
As I’ve written before, I’m not really a reader anymore and even thought I want to read more I find it hard to get around to doing it. Earlier this week however I decided to listen to an audio book while mowing the lawn and since it’s a fairly large lawn I managed to listen for over an hour. Because I had already started The Drawing of the Three and almost but not quite finished it, I decided to give it a go.
And boy am I glad I did. I liked the book all the way through, even though I stopped reading and listening to it for so long, and the ending was just awesome. Great climax and perfect lead in to whatever happens next in the Dark Tower series.
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and tagged it with Reading Stephen King The Dark Tower The Drawing of the Three The first Dark Tower book had a lot of interesting ideas but it was quite a slow read. The second one so far appears to be much more of a page turner.
Also a full-sized iPad, even an Air, is a bit on the heavy side for reading in bed.
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and tagged it with Reading Stephen King The Dark Tower I just finished the first book – The Gunslinger – in Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series and I immediately started reading the second one – The Drawing of the Three. As those of you who have read the series knows, this is quite a long series but it can be even longer depending on which books I would chose to include.
So that is my question to all of you, which books should I read as part of my The Dark Tower reading?
Of course I will read the seven main books, but then there’s the eight ”The Wind Through the Keyhole” that takes place between number four and five. Should I read this one after ”Wizard and Glass” and before ”Wolves of the Calla” or should I consider it more like bonus material after I’ve finished the main books?
How about other King novels that tie into The Dark Tower, like ”The Stand”, should I intersperse it in the reading of the main series or should it also be considered something extra to read afterward?
Two things to note if you have suggestions for me:
@MrHenko I would read the main books, then 4.5 and then the comics.
I have no idea if they are in Swedish yet though. Don’t think I’ve seen them in Norwegian yet so they probably aren’t.
@MrHenko Btw I think I will read this series again next. 😃
@furstenberg There’s comics as well?!? Are they adaptations of the books or stand-alone stories?
The Dark Tower series, including 4.5/8, were translated to Swedish and published early last year.
@MrHenko Yes there are Dark Tower comics as well.
It started out with an adaptation of book four. And it kind of grew from there. 😃
@furstenberg Cool! Thanks for the recommendation.
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These days I’m a fairly slow reader and I have very little time for reading so it has taken many weeks but tonight, on a very hot summer night of what I believe is one of the warmest summers in Sweden in recorded history, I finished the book. I can’t say that I loved it but I am definitely intrigued by it, so I will keep on reading the series. I believe that a lot of the things that are still confusing will be less so as I keep on reading. I also think that this will be an interesting way into the works of Stephen King, which I haven’t really explored at all before reading this book.
Because I’ve gotten into purchasing physical copies of books again, and because I buy books much faster than I read then, I already have four books in the series in my bookshelf.
I don’t think I’ll read more tonight and I’m not sure whether I’ll reading something else before starting book two in the series. Time will tell.
@MrHenko I look forward to how it goes. I enjoyed the first book but for some reason never picked up the second. And I’m a long-time fan of Stephen King.
@MrHenko still one of my all-time favorite series.
@MrHenko One of the books I’ve read more times than I can count. The whole series is great, and there are many references to the world throughout the other books.
@jack I probably should recommend a book that I just started reading but just from the first few pages, and with The Gunslinger in fresh memory, it feels like that is something that I can actually do. If you’re a King fan you’ll probably also get way more than me out of the way the series is supposed to tie into his other works.
@bbohling It seems like a series that has touched a lot of people, so I’m really looking forward to progressing in it.
@furstenberg The fact that King used the series to tie more or less his entire bibliography together was one of the things that got me really interested in it when The Incomparable talked about it.
@MrHenko When I read it in the late eighties I had only read a couple of King books. So I didn’t know this at the time.
But this book made me collect all his books and you soon pick up small hints throughout.
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@furstenberg That’s kind of how I expect it to go for me as well, that The Dark Tower will be my gateway to King.
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3 september, 2021 11:01@MrHenko Oh, I haven’t read that book in about 35 years (before Twin Peaks), I didn’t make the connection back then, but maybe I would now. I haven’t read King/Backman books in decades, but now and then I think about them. Have a handful of ones that I haven’t started on yet.
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5 september, 2021 08:31@odd To be clear, I don’t think Lynch and Frost knowingly took parts of it, but maybe one or both of them had read it and it was simmering in that back of their mind. Or maybe it’s some sort of shared American horror, some ideas of small towns and their secrets.