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I know this is an unpopular opinion, but several people heavily and repeatedly recommended me the Dark Tower series by Stephen King.
I had read a few books by King before and really enjoyed some of them. Even the first book in the series (written well before the others) was interesting but the whole series is just unbearable. It's long and disjointed and while there are some interesting moments, there are three times the amount of adding grotesquerie for no narrative reason, literal self-inserts, or worse, grabbing references to other IPs that get shoehorned into the story.
I know there are a lot of people that liked the series and I am happy it exists for those people, and I realize not everything is made for my tastes, but the ending was just so irredeemably bad. It makes the ending of GoT look like Breaking Bad.
Yeah, the Dark Tower series was a big ol' DNF for me. I just wasn't really able to get invested in anything. I stopped at the part with the train.
I couldn't make it past the endless beach with the lobstrocities
The first three were good. When I got to the fourth, where it explains how he became the most feared man on the planet I noped out.