The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (Volume 1 in the Dark Tower Series) [4 Audio Cassettes]
by:
Stephen King (author)
The first epic fantasy of The Dark Tower series read by the author. The Gunslinger is, in Stephen King's words, "the first stanza in a much longer work called The Dark Tower". This spell binding fantasy is set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace that is a dark mirror of our own. A...
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The first epic fantasy of The Dark Tower series read by the author.
The Gunslinger is, in Stephen King's words, "the first stanza in a much longer work called The Dark Tower". This spell binding fantasy is set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace that is a dark mirror of our own. A heroic tale of good verus evil, it features one of King's most powerful creations--The Gunslinger.
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Format: Audio Cassette
ASIN: B000N6DBA2
Publish date: 1988
Publisher: NAL
Edition language: English
Series: The Dark Tower (#1)
AudiobookIt's hard to categorize this book because I'm not sure if the place is real. Is it a type of purgatory or some dystopian alternative world? This feels like a super gritty, non-religious Pilgrim's Progress to me. I'm wondering if I'm the only one who thought that. I'm not sure if I'll listen...
Series: The Dark Tower #1 I think this is a popular series but this first book really didn't work for me. It started to go downhill when the Gunslinger gets together with Alice. I'm not particularly intrigued by the mystery of the tower and the man in black seemed to just be spouting gobblygook wh...
Well. The first book in "The Dark Tower" series. Are there some issues in this book? Yes. The pacing gets a bit draggy towards the end. But the world building is really good as well as the plot in this first book. It's enough to make you want to run out and read "The Drawing of the Three" or maybe t...
I had been curious about The Dark Tower for a long time. Since it was published until now, I never did read one book of it. When I heard about the movie adaptation, what compels me to read now was due to the movie. Of course, this year is truly the year of the King... ... and for once, reading The...
Well, I... Shit. This is ambitious as fuck, in the fiction and existential department.I don't like Roland, and I get that lofty ideals are useless from his position. But it's... He reminds me of that adage, the third part of which is that a man with only one reason to live is the most dangerous man ...