The Gunslinger
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Filled with ominous landscapes and macabre menace, Stephen King’s latest mass market novel features The Gunslinger, a haunting figure in combat with The Man in Black in an epic battle of excellent versus evil. A spellbinding tale that is both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike.Amazon.com Review
Thirty-three years, a horrific and life-altering manufacturing accident, and thousands of desperately rabid fans in the building, Stephen King’s quest to perfect his magnum opus rivals the quest of Roland and his band of gunslingers who inhabit the Dark Tower series. Loyal DT fans and new readers alike will appreciate this revised edition of The Gunslinger, which breathes new life into Roland of Gilead, and offers readers a “clearer start and slightly simpler entry into Roland’s world.”
King writes both a new introduction and foreword to this revised edition, and the ever-uncomplaining, ever-loyal “constant reader” is rewarded with secrets to the series’s inception. 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 leader on his right path to the Tower? While King credits Tolkien for inspiring the “quest and magic” that pervades the series, it was Sergio Leone’s The Excellent, the Terrible, and the Hideous that helped make the epic proportions and “nearly absurdly majestic western backdrop” of Roland’s world.
To King, The Gunslinger demanded revision because once the series was perfect it became obvious that “the beginning was out of sync with the ending.” While the revision adds only 35 pages, Dark Tower purists will notice the changes to Allie’s fate and Roland’s interaction with Cort, Jake, and the Man in Black–all stellar scenes that will reignite the hunger for the rest of the series. Newcomers will appreciate the details and insight into Roland’s life. The revised Roland of Gilead (nee Deschain) is embodied with more humanity–he likes, he pities, he regrets. 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). –Daphne Durham
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I bought this book because of all of its glowing reviews. Imagine my surprise when i started reading it to find it repulsive and not the least bit entertaining. King has had many wonderfull works in his career but this series is deffinatly not one of them. Boreing and not worth the effort.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
One of the worst books I’ve ever read! King’s been getting a lot of press recently because he’s finally finished his Dark Tower series — so I thought I’d give it a shot. I am, admittedly, no fan of King’s, and it’s obvious he has a ton of very loyal fans, but I thought, what the heck, how terrible can it be? Well, it’s terrible…really, really terrible! It’s pretentious portentiousness, with some of the most genuinely corny writing I’ve ever encountered. Every page it seems contains some new low in King’s never-ending search for the most banal profundity. If you like your writing obvious and sledge-hammery, then by all means buy this book. If your taste runs to more devious fare, don’t waste your time or money!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book is very excellent. This book is the fist part of a series of books. Stephen King has written forty really goo books. He lives in Maine and Florida with his wife. She has written a couple of books herself. The book I read was, The Gunslinger. At the end of the book he wakes up to be ten years older and his hair is grey. Then he looks over at his fire an it was gone, the fire pit and everything. The he walks out to the ocean and screams out, “Jake, Jake I like you!” The he looks down at his waist and looks at his father guns and starts telling about how he got them from his father. The gunslinger went on a long journey.
“A real gem, a journey to go on…”
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Gunslinger is the worst book I have ever had the mispleasure of reading. DON’T judge all the gushing reviews that praise this trash. The characters are flat, the tale is skeletal and the book reads like fan fiction. It was probably King’s grade school writing assignment — no kidding. The grammar is dreadful. The book abounds with errors and incosnistencies. I couldn’t wait for it to be over.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I loved EYES OF THE DRAGON, ON WRITING & several of his horror/thrillers.
But this novel didn’t work for me: I judge the beginning of a tale should pack some punch in the first 40 pages or it will lose people, who have better choices.
Such was the choice with DARK TOWER; talk of grits and the cowboy
and gateways only held my interest for so long.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5