The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King (MOBI)

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“An impressive work of mythic magnitude that may turn out to be Stephen King’s greatest literary achievement” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), The Gunslinger is the first volume in the epic Dark Tower Series.A #1 national bestseller, The Gunslinger introduces readers to one of Stephen King’s most powerful creations, Roland of Gilead: The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which mirrors our own in frightening ways, Roland tracks The Man in Black, encounters an enticing woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with the boy from New York named Jake. Inspired in part by the Robert Browning narrative poem, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,” The Gunslinger is “a compelling whirlpool of a story that draws one irretrievable to its center” (Milwaukee Sentinel). It is “brilliant and fresh…and will leave you panting for more” (Booklist).

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Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐This is a good novel overall. It is obvious King wrote this at the beginning of his career. He even acknowledges his early mistakes and said that he went through and revised many after he finished the 7th book. All things considered, a very good novel. The BIGGEST thing people need to know is the ending is a cliffhanger… As in gotta read the next book to find out what happens, the the next etc. The only one that isn’t necessary is book 4 12, which he wrote last to go between books 4 and 5

⭐I am an avid reader, approximately 100 books per year on a variety of topics and themes. I have to say that The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger is one of the most unreadable books I have ever encountered. I powered through over half of the book before I asked myself; WTH am I spending my time reading this nonsense. I will never attempt to finish this book due to the intense boredom of it. I can’t say more than that except don’t waste your time.

⭐I have read the entire epic series….twice. This is a gift for a friend; the first book in the tower series. King takes you into Roland of Gilead’s world as you share his quest for the dark tower. Unlike anything else Stephen King has done…..vastly superior. The movie was a terrible attempt to capture the richness of King’s work. Don’t consider it an indicator of what you will experience by reading.

⭐I like how King explores string theory and parallel universes here. This story is like a perfectly balanced soup we sometimes eat at a restaurant that’s not too much of this or where it’s not lacking in that. The mixed in genres, The Hobbit, King Arthurian legend, Doc Holiday, Biblical references and of course, horror are beautifully written. He weaves in other stories in here like, The Talisman, Insomnia, IT, and even Pet Sematary, (The black magic crystal that lets you travel to the land of the dead in his later D.T. volumes). The villains in these series are as intriguing to me as the enigmatic, archetype gunslinger is. And they range in variety as they do in lethality. Werewolves, ghosts, skin changers, artificial intelligence robots & trains, demons, rogue gunslingers, witches, evil men, sorcerers, were-spiders and even creatures related to Pennywise the clown. I suppose that like Roland, if you don’t have much of an imagination, then you should read a senseless love novel where there’s infidelity like in these tube soap operas and silly reality t.v. shows where people make a fool of themselves on national television.

⭐Confusion and Unmoored SufferingsWhile reading this book, it almost seemed like the author was creating confusion and misery for misery and confusion’s sake! Why would you do that in the first book of a series? If Stephen King’s name wasn’t on this book, I sincerely doubt most readers would have finished reading it. That said after completing the book I googled it and found King’s fans encouraging people to “power” through the book because book two is good, while on the same page I found others talking about underage sex that is weird in further editions of the series. This leads me to one question:“Why did you create such frivolous misery in your novel Mr. King?” Apart from Jake, it just seems like pain that neither builds the character, nor furthers the story. It is, to me, uninteresting and does nothing but sear and jade your reader’s imagination.This book was much less interesting than some less known/self-published smaller authors today like AC Cobble, Peter Flannery, A.G. Riddle and others. In fact this being the first Stephen King book I’ve ever read, I was left wondering if the only reason he has been so popular was due to the advertisements of his brand over the years. After all, prior to Amazon a writer could not easily get their works known or published. I now wonder if King is really deserving of his lofty place amongst well known literary authors.The final quarter of this book from the flashback of Roland’s “coming of age” through the cave onward was decent and even good occasionally, but prior to that I wanted to stop reading the book several times.Maybe my review is unfair, but this doesn’t seem like a work worthy of one of the past century’s most popular authors. Read it if you must, or just read the cliff’s notes version and save yourself some pointless misery.

⭐Stephen King will always enchant me with his writings: I’ve walked with Roland through the desert, I’ve felt the bitterness of his past and tasted the need for answers in the future that must come. I feel the weight of this journey just as Roland does. My only saving grace is that I can pause his journey for the Dark Tower to continue my own. I do not possess the eloquent way that this great author can write, so I know this review holds no candle to his talent, but if you are ready for a journey as life changing as an acid trip, please, do read this.

⭐This is my second time re-Reading the dark tower series. The first time I read this book I found it very hard to follow. The second time I enjoyed it far more.The gunslinger is following the man in black across the desert. It is meant to be a world different to ours which is old. There are some links to our world and some parallels.If you are a King fan then the Dark Tower journey is an absolute must!

⭐I am afraid to allow myself be drawn into this series. I have read all nine (I think) of Donaldson’s Thomas Covenant story, and the five of his space series (the name eludes me) and I’m not sure either was worth the time. Great vision and interesting stuff, but man were they heavy and loooooong! I’m pretty sure that Dark Tower series is similar…….As a book I really enjoyed The Gunslinger. It is soo of the 70’s and expanding the consciousness, yet still very Stephen King. I’m glad I read the revised version as the original, based on his foreword, mist have been been hard going at times.

⭐This is my fourth journey to the Tower and like all journeys it begins with one small step. But what a step, Sai King is still the master storyteller and I , a constant reader , must continue to find new joys in old words . I shall , before I reach the clearing at the end of the path , return again , because this book is worth every second it takes to read it .

⭐In the first of Stephen King’s Dark Tower, we meet Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger. As he pursues the Man in Black in his quest to the Dark Tower, the Gunslinger meets a young boy, Jake, who accompanies him across the desert.This isn’t the easiest of King’s books to get to grips with and the writing style is less accessible than usual. However, the cowboy/fantasy scenario is a fascinating one and sets the scene for the later books (which I’m told are more interesting). Apparently, much of what the author sets up in this volume makes a lot more sense later, but of course I’ll have to read all the others to confirm that. Though there is some proper gunfighting early on, much of the book is taken up with recounting the memories of Jake and the Gunslinger and building up the backgrounds of the characters.An interesting read that promises much for the rest of the series.

⭐Even King says its not great, himself. It was a fairly hard, fairly boring, confusingly and fairly pretentiously written book… but I’m going to trust everyone and go on to the second in the series, as this book gave just enough intrigue.I can’t see I’d spend 50-60£ on the full series of books unless the next one is MUCH better than this oneParts of this book kind of reminded me of parts of The Stand.. not in its writing as such but in the narrative atmosphere

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