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by Michael Whelan, Stephen King
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Carolyn Cannot Live Without Books!
Carolyn Cannot Live Without Books! rated it 6 years ago
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...
Tannat
Tannat rated it 6 years ago
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...
Abandoned by Booklikes
Abandoned by Booklikes rated it 7 years ago
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...
theguywhoreads
theguywhoreads rated it 7 years ago
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...
The better to see you, my dear
The better to see you, my dear rated it 7 years ago
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 ...
Chris' Fish Place
Chris' Fish Place rated it 7 years ago
When I was in high school, I read King. I mean, I really read King. I was told by my mother not to leave the books around the house because the title "The Dead Zone" had freaked out my young brother. Then I read three of his books in row that I didn't like - Deadzone, Salem's Lot, Tommyknockers. It ...
Reading is my ESCAPE from Reality!
Reading is my ESCAPE from Reality! rated it 8 years ago
I am a huge Stephen King fan (since I was a teenager), and I read every book he writes, except the Dark Tower series. I'm not sure why I never read this series, but I own all the books. So, I'm finally reading it, well.... because it's being made into a movie. And actually, I decided to listen to ...
Fangirl Moments and My Two Cents
Fangirl Moments and My Two Cents rated it 8 years ago
Just wow. Stephen King has more imagination in his pinky nail than I do in my hole body. How does he come up with this stuff? This is a sort of otherworldly/post-apocalyptic story. It has a dark dry way about it. I feel like I'm not smart enough to get everything. I think I need to reread, but...
AMAITKEN.COM Book Reviews
AMAITKEN.COM Book Reviews rated it 8 years ago
I don't know... To be honest, I'm not sure what to think of this book. I liked King's book On Writing, it was written clearly and was easy to follow and understand. This book, however, was written in an entirely different style and it was off putting. I found that the language in the book made it ha...
Kitty Horror
Kitty Horror rated it 8 years ago
Roland of Gilead, the last gunslinger is on a mission to track the man in black whom he thinks will be able to tell him where the Dark Tower is. He journeys through a desert wasteland, encountering others along the way including Jake, a boy who has seen the man in black in a previous life and travel...
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