• Squibbles@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    When he finally came back to finish that series he really took it off, way off, the rails. I envy you for only having read the first 3.

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      1 year ago

      Oh yeah? Which one did they first visit a metropolitan city?

      Was the gunslinger in a pharmacy?

      Idk I think I lost interest at that point.

      Ahhh look at these strange metal boxes with people inside! - geeeet outta here.

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        1 year ago

        2nd book has the gunslinger (in Eddie’s body) in New York, and yes he had a shootout with the police in a pharmacy. He needed meds for his infected hand.

        I don’t remember strange metal boxes with people inside…

        4th book is really good. At least teenage me liked it at the time. It’s a prequel book about a time in the gunslinger past when he had just become newly knighted, and a love interest.

        After that things get weird. I should try another read through.

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          1 year ago

          Huh, okay, I would be interested in a prequel, maybe. Thanks

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            1 year ago

            It can be pretty much read as an independent book too, so don’t feel like you need to read the other books first. There’s just a bit of tie in from the other books at the beginning and the end.

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              1 year ago

              Oh that actually interests me a lot, thank you. I just started Babel by rf kuang, But I think I will try the fourth book, I’d like to see the gunslinger again. Yeah I was worried. I thought I’d have to go through the whole series again, but a relative stand alone entry sounds doable

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, but Book 4 is the best. Wizard and Glass is the pinnacle of the series.

      Been years (prob over a decade) since I’ve read any of them, but I remembered hating Wizard and Glass at first, because it was a prequel and I wanted to hear more about the current journey, but fell in love with it by the end. So fucking good.

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        1 year ago

        Oh man, talk about unpopular take.

        You’re entitled to your opinion of course. But that’s a tough one to defend lol

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      1 year ago

      Yes, I wouldn’t bother reading 5-7. The terrifying thing is that he wrote that stuff sober. Cocaine King would’ve done a better job of it, I think.