I read the first book during a stay in the ’mental hospital‘ when I was about seventeen and thought it was great, couldn’t put it down - which came as a bit of a surprise as I was mostly into horror novels back then, read everything by Stephen King I could get my hands on, and had always sort of shunned the more nerdy shit - I made fun of my older cousin without relent for being obsessed with the lord of the rings shit (movie) when it came out, for instance - but I’d decided to give the eye of the world a shot as it was the only book the ’hospital library’ provided that didn’t seem specifically written for dipshit teenagers. Then a couple years later I read the second book during a stay in jail, and I recall enjoying it; then [x? time] later I tried reading the third, but I couldnt remember the story that well and felt like I was missing something, so I decided to try to re read the first two - got through the first one again (and again thoroughly enjoyed), but lost interest somewhere in the middle of the second book reread - I think honestly I’d lost interest in it at some point during my first read, which is why the third felt so,foreign to me when i tried to read it. I always told myself that at some point I’d go back and attempt it once more, and ultimately one day finish the series. But at this point to be perfectly honest my ADD is so much worse than it used to be - my cognitive faculties in general are, really, I wonder why - and I havent even opened a book for more than just a few days before giving up and moving on in years now. So uh, fuck that I guess.
Oh and that show looks fucking embarrassingly stupid; hard pass.
