Nov
01
2008
Author: Stephen King
ISBN: 0340829753 DDC: 813.54
Book 1 of The Dark Tower series.
Read for the RIP III Challenge
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The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed
This is the first book in King’s seven book series, The Dark Tower, which I’ve been meaning to get started on for a good while now. It is labelled as a fantasy series, but with King you always[1] get some form of horror. And for that reason I decided to add this to my RIP challenge reading list.[2] The Gunslinger introduces the reader to Roland of Gilead, the gunslinger of the title, and the world in which he lives. It echoes many things of our world, maybe at some point in the future, after the world has “moved on”
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Linknotes:
- of course by always I mean usually. There are exceptions. ↩
- I had listed two Meyer books, but after reading them I figured that they really really dont fit in with the whole horror genre. At some point I’ll get around to reviewing them ↩
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