I agree. It is the most straightforward of the books, and could have been great JUST PLAYED STRAIGHT. Fucking Hollywood.

I disagree with"hate". But he sure had issues. I think King was raised in a family of women, one of whom was a librarian.

The TV version was closer to the story he wanted to tell. It's clearly very personal to him. Stephen Weber was more the everyman King wanted. I remember King didn't much like Walken as Johnny Smith either. Walken is just so WEIRD about everything.

I can't imagine you'll get any kind of argument from anybody. Roland had a harder time with a fucking comedian than that guy.

Blecccccchhhhh. All this move needed to do was start with Roland stolidly walking through a desert to win hearts and minds….That's it. And it fucked it up.

Buddy, Chiwetel Ejiofor has that wrapped up. GREAT actor, but he'll take shit at the drop of a hat.

And rightly so. The Shining, the movie was good, but it wasn't King's story. I imagine he'll wait for the the cordite smoke to clear here, and then start shit talking this one too.

The next book was Song of Susannah. Easily the worst of the series. and filled with nonsense. Clearly King was fucked up by his accident. I liked Wolves of the Calla, but it's (largely, but not totally) downhill from there. I just reread the series on a road trip and I found many parts of the last book very…

Hmmm….Perhaps I'm in trouble here, somehow.

Yes. Jamie thought Tyrion did it. So, to him, it wasn't a mystery. Olenna talked to Littlefinger, long ago, about how SHE did it, so to us, it wasn't a mystery. Nobody but Tyrion thought it was a mystery, it seemed. All had their culprit(even if it was the wrong culprit)

The John Cho movie seems like a pretty similar premise to Garden State. I still like Garden State, though it's taken it's hits since it came out…But I hope this has something different…..
Also, The Gunslinger is going to have to do a lot of work to prove itself to me.

They've taken a fascinating series and turned it into boilerplate action. I'm gonna see it, but it just looks like a shitshow.

She understood the rules of succession….And was the avatar for the audience who would ABSOLUTELY ask that question. Sansa appears to be crushing the day to day shit of Winterfell, and I'm sure that Jon would not be as good….but she's, by her own admission, no military leader.

Come on. This can only work the one time. One special boat WAITING for the Dragon to be swooping TOWARDS it's crosshairs and right in front. A dragon WILL be lost in this ploy(It has to be, or why would they introduce it? But If it NEVER works, I will clap my hands in glee, because that's really unexpected), but…

That "mystery" was solved long ago in a conversation. No one thought of it as a mystery…..well, I guess Tyrion did.

It bugged me. He didn't show up with that cape with the fur on it, so he had to go so far as to ASK somebody to go either to the boat, or to his ship, and GIVE him that cape because he was cold….and that's bullshit. That was wardrobe trumping story, and that's too bad.

That's a deep cut bud.

Yes. I recall hearing him say he wished he ended his story that way. I've been watching a number of King interviews recently, and haven{t found that again, though

It is hard to reassure you AND keep the secret of the story. So….Take heart, I guess? On the other hand…..MY Roland doesn't go flipping off balconies and slide firing and somehow loading his guns in midair even though the cylinders are closed, so Hmmmm.

After Wizard and Glass (Book IV), the story sort of turns into vignettes. I downright hated Song Of Susannah, and the final book really is all OVER the place, but I liked it.
I will say, the story is never so simple as that first glorious book, never so filled with wonderous possibilities.