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I honestly despise King's longer novels. The Dark Tower series is the epitome of his inability to stay focused and well paced.
It's like he set a goal of some ridiculous book length, thought he needed a bunch of padding to get there, hit the mark and abruptly ends it.
Give me Salem's Lot, Carrie, Pet Semetary, etc all day but I can’t with Dark Tower.
Probably in part because of the time span over which it was written.
Which is weird because the first book is just a collection of short stories, it's not even a single narrative and IIRC is under 300 pages?
(checks notes)
216 pages. 224 with the Afterword.
The entire first half of Salem's Lot is 95% just him going on random tangents about various townsfolk and it's excellent.