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axeltheredpanda's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Animal death, Drug use, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Gun violence, Blood, and Abandonment
Minor: Cursing, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and War
dovahkiin_shea's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Murder
Moderate: Miscarriage
Minor: Animal death
vermispore's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Pregnancy, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
theverycraftyvegan's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Was it well written? Debatable. Stephen King is a great author and I’ve loved many of his other books, but The Gunslinger isn’t one of them. You jump around a lot between the present and the past, and it was all very confusing for me. It felt like the book had absolutely no flow. Maybe the series gets better as you go but I don’t know if I’m interested enough to read 7 more—and most of them very long—books to find out.
Dystopian and apocalyptic, everyone and everything is dying. A very hard existence in an unsavoury world filled with violence and death.
I also didn’t like a single character.
Jake, the boy, was a confusing addition. Where did he come from? Our time? How did he get there? Why is he there?
And Roland’s love for and eventual betrayal of Jake was just the worst.
Alice was needy and clingy and portrayed to be ugly due to a facial scar and her age. (40s???)
Sylvia was just a horrible excuse of a human.
The people of Tull all sucked.
The Man in Black… I don’t even know what my thoughts are on him. He was very cryptic and I felt like because he only starts to speak at the end of the book I didn’t get to know him.
I’ve read it. I can say I’ve read it. It wasn’t for me. Might be an unpopular opinion, but there it is.
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Sexual assault, and Sexual content
Minor: Miscarriage, Abortion, and Pregnancy
yoolia's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
Graphic: Misogyny and Sexual assault
moonlitemuseum's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.5
I really love King books, for the record, and I so want to like this book. His sprawling fantasy. And I do plan on reading the next one. But boy, this was rough. I just finished it and I barely remember anything about it. (I am going to request it from the library again though. Fantastic sleep aid!)
Graphic: Mental illness, Rape, Sexual violence, Abortion, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Gun violence, Sexism, Sexual assault, Violence, Vomit, Car accident, and Murder
Minor: Fatphobia
Whatever the hell is going on with that woman who is given a thing she is not allowed to ask about, with the knowledge that she will have to ask about it. No neat content warning for that, but it was weird and unpleasant.midnightgremlin's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Graphic: Child death, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Violence, and Murder
Moderate: Racism
moony32's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, and Alcohol
heidibowell's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
0.25
Minor: Rape and Sexual assault
dano19's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Alcoholism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment