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abookplaylist's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Ho iniziato questa saga perché spinta dal consiglio di un amico per me molto importante e la continuerò per lo stesso motivo, ma quantomeno a mio parere questo primo volume è stato una supercazzola non indifferente.
Partendo dal presupposto che fino ad un buon 70% mi sono annoiata come non mai, il libro inizia ad essere interessante per il restante 30%.
L'uomo in nero lo considero un cattivo coi fiocchi e Roland per il momento riesco solo a paragonarlo a Shadow di American Gods.
Per il momento resto tiepida a riguardo di questa saga, mi esprimerò più avanti
Graphic: Blood
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Sexual content, Violence, Excrement, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Child death, Stalking, Abandonment, and Alcohol
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
angelfoodcakes's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
My main issue is this is very much from Stephen King’s era of writing where he has to put excessive detail into how he describes every female character’s boobs.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Gun violence, and Sexism
ggcd1981'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
3.75
Não tenho muito o que dizer em termos de pontos negativos ou positivos pois este é apenas o livro introdutório da série (apesar disso foi nada informativo sobre o universo da história). Como pontos negativos aponto apenas: a objetificação dos personagens femininos, que nesta primeira obra existiram apenas para serem sexualizadas; a violência gráfica contra animais (este é sempre um gatilho para mim); e a total ausência de explicação a respeito do universo da série The Dark tower, dos personagens e os papeis que desempenham (ler esse livro é como começar um filme pela metade). Os pontos positivos até o momento são: como já mencionado a escrita de King; os personagens são bastante intrigantes (Roland, Jake, The dark man), são mistérios a serem descobertos; O mundo e história são tão inesperados e misteriosos para Fantasia ou terror que é inevitável querer saber o que raios está acontecendo e porquê.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, and Murder
Moderate: Misogyny, Pregnancy, and Alcohol