Review of The Dark Tower (2017) by Giantpegasus123 — 07 Aug 2017

There are a few issues here from the start. 1. This is a VERY LONG book series, that incorporates a bunch of King's characters from other books in certain ways, its basically a homage to himself (which makes sense for King).

2. The books suck, they are all setup with no payoff (again pretty typical for King with of course a few exceptions). That being said the setup in the first book or two is actually pretty good, but its just set up, and then it turns into a disjointed disaster with King playing himself.

3. This series is wayyyyy too deep to do in a movie let alone 3. The depth of the characters backstories and how they all change (which is really the only redeeming part of the series - except roland his ending sucks).

Thats impossible to do in one movie. The way to salvage this series was to do a movie basically only about book 1 and END IT THERE. The problem here is they are using a movie to try and set up a TV show, which after this may not happen anymore who knows.

4. Stephen King is the most overatted author ever. He does bring up interesting ideas and develops characters well, the problem is after that he doesnt explore the interesting idea and the development is meaningless because the rest of the story sucks and goes off into convoluted territory with no real ending.

Or over 1000 pages of repetitive "love story" nonsense that was 11/22/63. Another book that had a pretty good beginning and then completely falls apart and you wonder why the hell you went to the end.

IMO one of if not the most over rated book ever.