I love Stephen King's writing style, and for the most part, I liked this book. I was more than a little off-put by the obsession with this quote "sexually ravenous" girl that the book preview notes, even though she is only part of the story for like two chapters. I felt icky, this focus on her sexual appetite felt super male-gazey and fetishizing and I was disappointed. You can do better, Stephen.
I got the next two Dark Tower books from the library, and I'm gonna try to slip them in while I bang out my two books a month for this challenge. I've got some time before the TV show starts (can I just say, Idris Elba is dream casting. Perfection.), so I'll see what I can do.
I do want to take a moment to talk about the afterword at the end of my copy, where Stephen King talks about the writing of The Dark Tower stories. He talks about the story needing to remain "alive and viable in [his] own mind," because "if a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horseshit even if words continue to march across the page" (p308). I have often wondered why I haven't been able to go back to a story that I stopped mid-telling, and once again Stephen King has put words to a feeling I was unable to name. I need to find a way back to these stories, to revitalize my muse and get my butt in gear again.
I do want to take a moment to talk about the afterword at the end of my copy, where Stephen King talks about the writing of The Dark Tower stories. He talks about the story needing to remain "alive and viable in [his] own mind," because "if a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horseshit even if words continue to march across the page" (p308). I have often wondered why I haven't been able to go back to a story that I stopped mid-telling, and once again Stephen King has put words to a feeling I was unable to name. I need to find a way back to these stories, to revitalize my muse and get my butt in gear again.
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