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Summary: So many questions, so few answers
Review: The hype surrounding the Dark Tower series finally got to me and I picked up The Gunslinger, unsure of what I would find. What I found was a stark, fresh, somewhat surreal and demanding (yet light!) experience that left me wanting more, much more.This first novel in the series finds the hero (for wont of a better word!), The Gunslinger, slugging across the desert in search of the mysterious Man in Black. The desert is bleak and so our the words - yet they have a definite beauty. Along the way The Gunslinger meets a couple of people (are they alive or dead?) and reveals some of his back history - a strange massacre in a town, his childhood friends and mentors and hints at a Dark Tower. Death permeates this book. We're not sure who's dead or alive. Something strange has happened with time - the main search right now is for this cause - and strange fragments of the "real" world appear through the fog - Hey Jude playing in a Western Saloon is one of the strange and wonderful images we encounter. Time itself is an illusion it seems and still the Man in Black is ahead of us. My one reservation about the book is that the final meeting with the Man in Black is a little anticlimactic. Perhaps that's because it's been building up but after the meeting we wonder why he was running at all. However, there is a lot of backstory missing in the book - obviously slated for the later books - so perhaps issues like this will be resolved. All in all a most strange but powerful book - well worth reading.
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Summary: Way to weird
Review: There have only been a few books that i never finished, but the Dunslinger was one of them. It was just so weird. King never told you what was happening. it's kinda like if you go into a movie halfway though it. Especially a fantasy one. I never got into it. i had no idea what was happening. read IT instead.
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Summary: There's nothing like a walk in the desert
Review: This book is literally about someone walking across the desert - and is strangely captivating. Granted, this is no ordinary individual as the "constant reader" is introduced to a character that many have come to adore - Roland, the gunslinger. This series is difficult to describe - part western, part science fiction, alternative universe, fantasy, epic - where none of these categories does justice to the magnitude of the Dark Tower series.
This book should also have a warning sticker "Do not start, unless you are ready to become engrossed by the full series" - it's tough to stop once you've started your own journey to the Dark Tower.
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