De scherpschutter

mass market paperback, 206 pages

Dutch language

Published Oct. 30, 2001 by Poema Pocket.

ISBN:
978-90-245-2688-8
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3 stars (2 reviews)

De scherpschutter ploetert voort door een geheimzinnige wereld. Hij wil maar één ding: wraak. Zijn doelwit, de man in het zwart, vlucht voor hem uit door een helse woestijn van zout en dodelijk kruid. Maar wordt hij wel opgejaagd? Of wordt de jager meegelokt naar waar zijn prooi hem hebben wil...

De Scherpschutter is het eerste deel uit De Donkere Toren-cyclus. Een cyclus waarmee Stephen King zijn eigen moderne versie van de queeste naar de graal heeft gecreéerd. Een idealistische zoektocht op een weg vol gevaren, zoals alleen Stephen King die kan beschrijven. --back cover

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4 stars

I definitely enjoyed this book, but it is also definitely the start of a saga. Throughout the whole novel there's so, so many hints of a larger world, and bursts of rapid-fire world building. The world King is creating is strange and intriguing enough that I want to continue with this series just to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. There are also a fair few Stephen King-isms in here, to be sure, though I'm told not as many as the later entries. Really, it's a matter of how much you can tolerate the particular style. I'm writing this a long time after I read it so I apologize for the vagueness.

I don't get why people like this

2 stars

People say this is a good book and series but I can't agree to that. It's just chaotic and doesn't make any sense, the writing seems overly dramatic and "flowery", meaning he describes things so weird, with weird details and weird metaphors. I couldn't even read it to the end and stopped at like 80 or 90%. I have no interest in reading the other novels in the series, it's just not my type of writing I guess. I never liked any Stephen King books until this one and I read a bunch now. It's not getting any better, maybe I should just give up on trying to like his writing.