After watching a few Stephen King movies with friends, I was eager to read his books. My friends didn't promise me a good time necessarily, but they did promise a good opportunity to sharpen my snarking skills. So I was loaned some books and sent on my merry way.

I started reading THE GUNSLINGER first because of THE DARK TOWER's release in theaters (which did contain problems, but had the fabulous and iconic Idris Elba), and I quickly found that if I took out all the racism, sexism, homophobia, and weird slobber kink, THE GUNSLINGER was a good high fantasy Western. I then closed the book at page 100 or so and...never found enough mental or emotional spoons to return. It demanded too much from me, and when my TBR pile is exploding with shiner and less sexist books, I couldn't make myself pick it up.

I may come back to this, if every other book I own bursts into flames first. Hopefully I'll have better luck with one of King's horror novels, but I doubt it.