i know what you're going to say. you're gonna say after book 4, King put his other book characters and himself in his novels and so the series jumped the shark. i have heard this argument over the last 20 years on various message boards . let me just say, i understand the argument and would sort of agree that it ended up a bad idea, BUT it was an interesting concept at the time and i was anxious to see how it panned out so it was only a bad idea when all was said and done IMO. i would also like to add, that elements from other SK books were included in earlier books of the series. the "It" turtle from book 3. the references to the Stand in Book 4 as well as Flagg himself. so you like books 1-4? then you were ok with King going meta even back then.
that was later, yeah and he shit up a few non Dark Tower books with his Crimson King stupdity and he even fucked up the Talisman sequel, Black House. Insomnia was a King novel that was so bloated, i think i only read it 3 times and that was because i was looking for DT clues. its not a good novel. somnebody should have smacked him a good one for writing such a huge fucking book for a simple story. man cant fall asleep so he starts tripping balls and sees shit nobody else can see. he ends up seeing future events and fucks with destiny in order to stop some. i liked the concept of the grays and the strings people have, but it didnt need to be a thousand pages.
the sad part is, it does have a good ending. i did like it the first time. mostly anyway. its just so much to read and doing that shit 3 times wears your ass out. its not like they had a lot of characters. just his 2 friends and a single mother with a few other characters sprinkled in for flavor. the Susan Dey shit really brings the flow of the whole story down to a crawl. they didnt need that.
those guys were cool. i called them grays, or in the book they were "bald doctors". they had scissors to cut the strings of people and they died soon after. cool concept. lol i'm not fighting you on that, but they werent in the book enough and it was a long slog to get to those cool parts with dumb shit about abortion rights and domestic violence. King was on a domestic violence kick during the 90s. he wrote several books on the subject in a few short years. i guess that was when he started becoming "an activist". i just wanted a cool story bro.
it could have been worse, he could have gotten his dumb ass killed for jogging on the highway like Gage in Pet Sematary. then all we would have gotten was Book 4 and maybe one of his faggot sons would have released notes for a quick cash grab.
