Title: Bland and overrated on its own merits
Review: Don't get me wrong, this book is an easy read and you will be turning the pages trying to get the story to develop. But it doesn't in this book. As I've been told, taken as a part of the whole series, the book may be good. But I believe that even in a series, each of the books should stand on its own merits. Dune, for example, was a great book individually and as part of the greater Dune series. Gunslinger is rather inadequate in this regard. There is a thin veneer of a story and it frankly doesn't progress any more than a one sentence summary couldn't have sufficed.So, if you are willing to consider this book a 300pg preface to the series, you may enjoy it (I haven't gotten to 2 and not sure if I want to after this). If you think a series should consist of reasonably self-contained stories with an overall plot arc that runs through each "episode", you most likely will be disappointed with Book 1.To each their own.
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