Have you read The Dark Tower series?

[PrimordialBeast]

So, I have only been concerning myself with serious literature and non fiction lately and it's been getting rather tiresome. I wanna break away for a little while and wrap my mind around something fun. A buddy of mine a few years ago told me how wild Stephen King's The Dark Tower series was, what I want to know, does it really live up to the hype? Is it worth reading seven books in a row? I've only read a single King novel in my life and I wasn't too into it or his writing.

If you have read it tell me about it, what you think about it, etc.

[Leland Gaunt]

Wild is the best way to describe it. The setting, the characters, and the situations are all pretty crazy. Sometimes I don't think that they mix all that well; cowboys, parallel universes, demons, etc... But I think that the series is worth at least one read, I wasn't able to finish it the second time.

I prefer King's older novels like Salem's Lot, It, and Needful Things (that's actually where my name comes from).

[DonovanTalbot]

It is worth a read especially the first four books those being The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three, The Waste Lands, and Wizard And Glass.

But I agree with the previous poster I prefer King's older works such as Salem's Lot, The Shining, IT, Pet Sematary, and his short story collections. King was in a league of his own. Nowadays, King strikes me as a hack writer ... a writer that writes for personal profit or rather he has suffered a twenty year bout with writers block. The quality and genius simply isn't there anymore.

[Mr.lucifer]

Steohen king does think of dark tower as his magnus opus.