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Stephen King and Michael Whelan - The Gunslinger: The Dark Tower

Stephen King and Michael Whelan - The Gunslinger: The Dark Tower

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susidee34
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The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger

bysusidee34 Jan 28, 2002
83 Helpfuls 84 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros Thought provoking, entertaining and some strange happenings
Cons I'm waiting too long for the end
Recommended it? Yes

"Do you believe in an afterlife?" The gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate.

Brown nodded. "I think this is it." [1]

This series, started with the first blank sheet of stiff green paper in a lonely cabin, in 1970, takes us on the trail of... Read full review »

JiggyJay
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The Good Minus the Bad and the Ugly Parts

byJiggyJay Sep 23, 2004
70 Helpfuls 71 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros Great storytelling by King
Cons None
Recommended it? Yes

For years now I have heard my friends talk about the Dark Tower series. "Oh, it's so good" and "You shouldn't miss it" were some of the most well known lectures my friends have been giving me throughout the years but I never believed them. And then something struck my interest. The seventh and... Read full review »

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Sit, and Hold Palaver With Me

byfallyn96 Aug 12, 2001
70 Helpfuls 71 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros The beginning of the series, the writing
Cons confusing to some
Recommended it? Yes

When people hear Stephen King, they think of stories of incomprehensible horrors, from vampires to the horror of a post apocalyptic world. Rarely, do they think of Roland, the gunslinger, the last of his kind, living in a world that has moved on.

I first heard of The Gunslinger: Dark... Read full review »

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A Pearl of Existence, A Cloud of Smoke

byowling Jul 2, 2001
50 Helpfuls 51 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros Oddly slow and methodical - and not in a bad way. Fresh & unusual.
Cons Slow and methodical - may seem bad to some people. Unusual.
Recommended it? Yes

An old friend sent me this book as a gift some time ago, calling it "an old friend" of his. It took me a long time to get around to reading it, but now I think I can see why he was so taken with it.

As a note, I'm wavering between four and five stars for this book. For the moment the... Read full review »

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The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger, revised and expanded, by Stephen King

bycdm72 Jun 14, 2005
43 Helpfuls 44 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros This revised edition is much better than the original.
Cons None, period.
Recommended it? Yes

"Nineteen's a selfish age and finds one's cares tightly circumscribed. I had a lot of reach, and I cared about that. I had a lot of ambition, and I cared about that. I had a typewriter that I carried from one sh!thole apartment to the next, always with a deck of smokes in my pocket and a smile on... Read full review »

PacManY2J
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King Takes Aim With The Dark Tower

byPacManY2J Feb 21, 2004
36 Helpfuls 37 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros an exciting introduction to an epic series
Cons can be confusing
Recommended it? Yes

Stephen King quickly draws us into his epic Dark Tower series with The Gunslinger, a tale of a classic mysterious hero on an serious mission. King combines several familiar story elements to create a completely new place and time. This fantastic story is only the beginning in a long series of... Read full review »

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Stephen King's The Gunslinger

bystract Jun 1, 2000
36 Helpfuls 37 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros it's the beginning of the Dark Tower series and the best stuff King has ever written
Cons confusing, but that's the point
Recommended it? Yes

"Go, then--there are other worlds than these..." Jake says as the gunslinger leaves him to die.

Yes it's Stephen King. No it's not horror. What is this, you ask? How can anything written by Stephen King NOT be horror? Well, however much it may go against your King philosophy, it's true... Read full review »

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Roland follows the Man in Black, and you should follow Roland.

byTheUnknown285 Jan 4, 2012
32 Helpfuls 33 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros A page turner, Narration, Setting, Premise, Exciting
Cons Not much is answered or explained, A very infuriating plot development.
Recommended it? Yes

In the introduction and foreword to The Gunslinger, Stephen King writes that, when he began working on The Dark Tower series, a multi-volume, fantasy epic that takes place in a western setting, he had set out to author a series that would combine the works of J.R.R. Tolkien with The Good, the Bad,... Read full review »

t13monkeys
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The Gunslinger - The Beginning of a Long Epic

byt13monkeys Mar 27, 2007
32 Helpfuls 33 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros unique premise, Stephen King's dark visual prose definitely shines out
Cons Only an introduction to his epic, not much development in character or plot
Recommended it? Yes

The Gunslinger, first of the Dark Tower series, is Stephen King's foray into fantasy fiction, and while the prolific writer has given us a fair share of novels from all genres, I have to say this one actually makes me wonder if the master author is cut out for fantasy.

The Gunslinger is... Read full review »

updateghost
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The Desert of The Gunslinger

byupdateghost Aug 25, 2003
29 Helpfuls 30 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros Visionary, beautiful, cool.
Cons Climax kinda... hm...
Recommended it? Yes

The Gunslinger is the beginning of Stephen King's unfinished seven-part The Dark Tower series, and just reading it, we can tell its setting up for something very vast, detailed, and intense, like Tolkien's Lord of the Rings or Rowling's Harry Potter. Reading King's afterword for the book, I can't... Read full review »

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Dark Tower 1 : Gunslinger - Stephen King - 9780452284692 - 0452284694

ISBN13: 9780452284692. ISBN10: 0452284694. by Stephen King. Published by Penguin Group (USA) Inc.. Edition: REV 03

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