So, The Dark Tower. I understand that bits and pieces of King's other books are referenced in the series, but how much should I know about them? Are his other books required reading to really get into the series?

File: 37 KB, 390x600, Thedarktower7.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Mon Feb 14 21:13:56 2011 No.1554293 [Reply] [Original]

So, The Dark Tower.

I understand that bits and pieces of King's other books are referenced in the series, but how much should I know about them? Are his other books required reading to really get into the series?

Anonymous Mon Feb 14 21:15:56 2011 No.1554298

No, they're not at all necessary. The Dark Tower series was the first King I read. If you do really want to read referenced stuff first, there's usually a list of related books in the front of each book of the dark tower.
The most related ones are Insomnia, Hearts in Atlantis, and 'Salems Lot, though.

>>	Neuro !qdUPARcrn. Mon Feb 14 21:18:56 2011 No.1554310 If I were you, OP, I would just read The Dark Tower, and then at the end read through a wikipedia article about the references to other works.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 14 21:26:56 2011 No.1554338 >>1554298 >>1554310 Much obliged, gents. Think I'll just start reading and see what happens.

Advanced search
Text to find
Subject [?]Search by post subject. Leave empty for any.
Username [?]Search for user name. Leave empty for any user name.
Tripcode [?]Search for tripcode. Leave empty for any.
Email [?]Search by email. Leave empty for any.
Filename [?]Search by image filename. Leave empty for any.
From Date [?]Enter what date to start searching from. Format is YYYY-MM-DD
To Date [?]Enter what date to start searching until. Format is YYYY-MM-DD
Image hash
Search in	All Posts OPs Only
Deleted posts	Show all posts Show only deleted posts Only show non-deleted posts
Internal posts	Show all posts Show only internal posts Show only archived posts
Order	New posts first Old posts first
Capcode	All Posts Only by Users Only by Mods Only by Admins Only by Developers
Results	Posts Threads
Action	[ Simple ]

/lit/ - Literature