Maybe it's just me.

I am currently trudging through the last of King's Dark Tower books. God help me. Not that it's a huge book -- at 686 pages, it's a mere pamphlet compared to It or The Stand. The problem is, it sucks.

A lot.

So those 686 pages are rather more daunting than they would normally appear.

Riddle me this: If The Dark Tower is his magnum opus, if it's true that every book he's written has in some way been connected to this series, why in the name of everything that is holy would he feel the need to go back and rewrite the first book, The Gunslinger, to make it fit in with the rest of these books? Doesn't that go against the idea that everything he's ever written has been leading up to these books? I mean, if the first book somehow "doesn't fit" with the rest of the series, maybe there's something wrong with the rest of the series? Y'think?

I don't know. Maybe it's just me.