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Very slow-burning books, and I almost always lost interest before finishing them. I found The Dark Tower especially tedious. After I couldn't force myself read it, I got the audiobook version a lnd tried to listen to it three times, but always fell asleep. Ironically, the books I genuinely enjoyed were some of his longest ones: It, and The Stand.
As Richard Bachman, on the other hand, he wrote loads of entertaining books. It almost seems like in that persona he didn't give a shit what others thought of his works, and the books ended up eminently readable.
Funny. I had the same experience. I loved the stand and it but couldn't get past an hour or 2 of the dark tower.
The gunslinger is definitely a hard one to get going (but it does get going) because he was super young when he wrote it (I think he was like 19 or something like that) but overall the Dark Tower series is one of the best pieces of fiction I've ever read. Especially if you're familiar with his world building (lots of books live within the Dark Tower universe like The Stand, Salem's Lot, even The Shining to an extent). It also has one of the most memorable open lines of any book series "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gun slinger followed".