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5 sats \ 11 replies \ @TresDMan 15 Jan \ parent \ on: Which is your favorite Science Fiction series? Part III BooksAndArticles
Neither did I, until I read this series. It's about 7 or 8 books, but there are other King books connected to the lore in some way. Some say that all the King books are connected to the Dark Tower series in some way or another.
Yeah, however, I am not a King fan. I read a couple of his horror books when I was much younger and did not like them very much. It was writing style, I think.
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Funny, I had the same experience. I think I tried Insomnia and IT, but couldn't get into them.
Then, a couple of decades later, a friend of mine gifted me the first book in the Dark Tower series. I read it and it sort of grabbed me, it was different... I then re-read it a few years after that and I was finally in.
I think the Dark Tower series is one of his best within his catalog. Salem's Lot was another good one that I ended up reading because of the Dark Tower series. All of them are a strange blend of sci-fi and horror.
I'm currently reading the final book in the series. It's been a long journey.
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Ahhhhh……. Those long journeys are the best, though. The author has the time and space to fully develop the characters, the plot and the settings. I think series books, as long as you know what is going on in the series, are by far the best.
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I have just started reading one of a series of books, but it is the third of a trilogy and I have not read the first two. It is a bit confusing because the author is assuming that I have read the first two.
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Yes, there is a reason. I went to a used book sale, where the books were unusually cheap and they had a good variety and bough a load of them. I knew the author from other books I had read by him, so I bough this one and several others, since hardbacks were only $2 and paperbacks only $!. I got a whole box full of them. I got about 8 by this author, all that they had! They were from three different series, I found out after researching them. So I only got partials of the several series. I know I can fill the series by going to my favorite bookstore, but I want to read what I have first to see what I would look to buy.
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