The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1)

Soul searching alternate fantasy Bernardi Francesco The plot is compelling and original.This is not your standard Stephen King book, because it straddle the fantasy genre with an original flair.At moments, it is quasi-psychedelic, and one cannot but wonder if there are some real life experiences embedded in the narrative.I have started to read this book out of curiosity, I'm now nearing the end of the second book, and so far I think I will go on.If you like the fantast theme interlaced wi. Roland's journey to the Dark Tower Kindle Customer This is a great read. Matter of fact the whole series of the Dark Tower is a GREAT read. Really hard to put the book down once you start. This is about Roland and his journey to the Dark Tower. I liked it so much that I have the whole series. Now I am waiting to see if a movie is made regarding this story.. Not bad Benjamin D. Uecker I guess I missed the part where lots of people consider this King's best work. It's good but for me, it's not "great" if I am okay with putting the book down. I will read the next one in the series but there is something about it that just didn't appeal to me. Otherwise I would have read it in just a few sittings.

Newcomers will appreciate the details and insight into Roland's life. That a "magic" ream of green paper and a Robert Browning poem, came together to reveal to King his "ka" is no real surprise (this is King after all), but who would have thought that the squinty-eyed trio of Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach would set the author on his true path to the Tower? While King credits Tolkien for inspiring the "quest and magic" that pervades the series, it was Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly that helped create the epic proportions and "almost absurdly majestic western backdrop" of Roland's world. What DT fans might miss is the same ambiguity and mystery of the original that gave the original its pulpy underground feel (back when King himself awaited word from Roland's world). To King, The Guns

In 1978 Stephen King introduced the world to the last Gunslinger, Roland of Gilead.  Nothing has been the same since. A classic tale of colossal scope—crossing over terrain from The Stand, The Eyes of the Dragon, Insomnia, The Talisman,Black House, Hearts in Atlantis, ‘Salem’s Lot and other familiar King haunts—the adventure takes hold with the turn of each page.And the tower awaits…  The First Volume in the Epic DARK TOWER Series…The GunslingerThis heroic fantasy is set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace that is a dark mirror of our own. Over twenty years later the quest for the Dark Tower continues to take readers on a wildly epic ride. A spellbinding tale of good versus evil, it features one of Stephen King’s most powerful creations—The Gunslinger, a haunting figure who embodies the qualities of the lone hero through the ages, from ancient myth to frontier western legend.The Gunslinger’s quest involves the pursuit of The Man in Black, a liaiso