Over the summer I was given a lend of the books and I also got some on audible as I found it was a great listening experience.
I really enjoyed reading the afterwords by King and finding out some more detail about his feelings on the books, the audio narrators etc (for example the fact that he edited the first book at a later point, which was the version I read).
So my thoughts I believe my least favourite were the first and the last books. I enjoyed King being featured to a point but the full amount of his character I did not always enjoy. I found it interesting that his own characters did not always like him though.
I absolutely loved and was excited by the Salems lot cross over and the low men in yellow coats. Over the years I’ve read so many books and stories of his including UR so all the final links makes so much sense about multiple universes, it all clicked into place.
I read a couple of reviews and I have to agree that the Mordrid vignette was a bit anticlimactic. I had wondered was Mordrid going to be linked more to IT, or that it would in fact be IT.
I absolutely loved Oy and I was so sad at his death, I had wished he got to go back to Jake in his living form. It mentioned a version of him will get to turn up in the universe with Jake, Eddie and Sushanna but I wished it hadn’t happened the way it did.
Finally the ending, very trippy and I thought maybe as King himself says, it had to be this ending. The fact we have Ka and the Turtle it made me think of Karma and reincarnation from the Bhagwad Gita. He is being perpetually punished because he isn’t fully capable of change. It also reminded me of the insanity in secrete window at the end for some reason but I’m not sure why, more the writing style, the idea of perpetual unfixable insanity than the character itself.
by FantasticMrsFoxbox