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I worked my way through The Gunslinger, but the book seemed a little too deep and poetic, like he's contemplating life, death and everything inbetween while still trying to unfold a thrilling story.
Meh, I'll have to see how the second one is.
The second one is very different from the first one, it's a huge difference. I really advice it though, it's a good one, up to book 4. Book 5 is something else, I doubt I'll ever reread that one.
I never really got into his whole "all my books are tied into this series" myself though. His older work, where the references are merely there because he used some characters of those books in the Dark Tower series, are luckily not influenced by it. But a book like "Black House" was just dreadful to read, the same with "Hearts in Atlantis" (although to be fair only the first story, the others were quite good imo), "Hearts in Atlantis" was the last movie I rented on VHS, thankfully as it is perfectly possible to fast forward it and keep the subtitles. I think I've seen the movie in about 10 minutes and I even regret losing that much time on it.