Securities fraud, manufactured conspiracy theories, inane social media spamming, general incompetence - this kid wasn’t born, he was made in some kind of GOP lab.

There’s also their other fantasy, literal armageddon, which drives a lot of US foreign policy..

I think The Stand miniseries is bad, but a lot of its badness comes from the book.  

Yeah, the ending was bleak enough without that last knife twist.

There are other reasons to do this, including environmental sustainability and animal cruelty.  There are lots of reasons people might want to reduce their meat intake.

Entertainers aren’t usually heroes.  I try to appreciate them for their art, but I don’t expect anything beyond that. 

Good luck. I think you’ll see the difference in tone and narrative momentum as soon as you start the second book.

It’s relatively short, but it’s less accessible than the other books.  I think it’s common for people to be unsure about the series after The Gunslinger and get pulled in by The Drawing of the Three.

The Gunslinger is good in its way, but its tone is different from the rest of the series. I found it to be more dreamlike and less accessible than everything that follows.

I don’t recall feeling like there was a moral equivalence being made, but maybe I just missed it.

I liked Black House, too. I don’t think the characters of The Talisman grabbed me, so the meandering story felt more slow and pointless than epic.

I should give The Talisman another go at some point.

I don’t think that was my initial reaction. I remember feeling like the last couple of books seemed really rushed and King knew it.

The series’ flaws bothered me more the first time I read it. I still think there are flaws, sometimes glaring flaws, but they don’t bother me as much anymore.

I like Insomnia and found The Talisman and The Stand to be a bit tedious.

Yes, I would recommend The Dark Tower.

Me too. It jumps the shark several times and the series peaks in the middle, but it’s more than the sum of its parts.

Why do you dislike it? I enjoyed it, but maybe it just hit me at the right time or something.

He let three of his golf buddies manage the VA.

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