You know, I think part of my problem with Black House was that I've never, ever been able to get into any of King's Dark Tower books. At all. Even his short stories related to it have done nothing for me.
I also felt like Jack Sawyer, after being so vivid in The Talisman was just awfully flat. As were most of the characters. There seemed to be a lot of telling instead of showing, especially where Henry Leyden was concerned (I couldn't at all understand why he was so "amazing," aside from being a natty dresser). Everything about those bikers bored me silly, Sophie's appearance in the story was as out-of-left-field as Lisa Braeden's in SPN (and she's about as interesting as Lisa), and I just rolled my eyes over the whole holy baseball bat thing at the end (I've never synced up with King's veneration of baseball as Everything Good in the World.)
I don't know, maybe I'm just a more critical reader now than when I was sixteen, but I found this a wholly disappointing sequel to a book that I really cherished.
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Date: 2011-07-14 11:22 pm (UTC)I also felt like Jack Sawyer, after being so vivid in The Talisman was just awfully flat. As were most of the characters. There seemed to be a lot of telling instead of showing, especially where Henry Leyden was concerned (I couldn't at all understand why he was so "amazing," aside from being a natty dresser). Everything about those bikers bored me silly, Sophie's appearance in the story was as out-of-left-field as Lisa Braeden's in SPN (and she's about as interesting as Lisa), and I just rolled my eyes over the whole holy baseball bat thing at the end (I've never synced up with King's veneration of baseball as Everything Good in the World.)
I don't know, maybe I'm just a more critical reader now than when I was sixteen, but I found this a wholly disappointing sequel to a book that I really cherished.