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The Dark Tower is a seven-book series (plus a short story, plus a spinoff novel, plus some comics, plus technically most of Stephen King's other work) about Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger in a world that has "moved on." Roland seeks the Dark Tower, the linchpin of reality, the center that holds all the myriad worlds and realms of the cosmos (and King's stories) together. He is joined in his quest by his ka-tet, a band of companions drawn from various time periods of a world very much like ours. He is opposed by the Crimson King and his servant, a mysterious Man in Black of many names, some of which may be familiar to longtime King readers.
A film adaptation of the series, starring Idris Elba as Roland and Matthew McConaughey as the Man in Black, is set for release in February 2017, and a planned 2018 TV series based on the fourth book, Wizard and Glass, which is mostly a big flashback to Roland's younger days.
As I've alluded, the series is notable for being King's magnum opus, connecting many of his other works into a single fictional multiverse, via everything existing on different levels of the Tower. Characters from The Stand, It, Salem's Lot and many others make appearances in various major and minor roles.
Commala-come-come,
The battle’s now begun!
And all the foes of men and rose
Rise with the setting sun.
https://youtu.be/HsGwMnHj7QY
The Dark Tower is a seven-book series (plus a short story, plus a spinoff novel, plus some comics, plus technically most of Stephen King's other work) about Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger in a world that has "moved on." Roland seeks the Dark Tower, the linchpin of reality, the center that holds all the myriad worlds and realms of the cosmos (and King's stories) together. He is joined in his quest by his ka-tet, a band of companions drawn from various time periods of a world very much like ours. He is opposed by the Crimson King and his servant, a mysterious Man in Black of many names, some of which may be familiar to longtime King readers.
A film adaptation of the series, starring Idris Elba as Roland and Matthew McConaughey as the Man in Black, is set for release in February 2017, and a planned 2018 TV series based on the fourth book, Wizard and Glass, which is mostly a big flashback to Roland's younger days.
As I've alluded, the series is notable for being King's magnum opus, connecting many of his other works into a single fictional multiverse, via everything existing on different levels of the Tower. Characters from The Stand, It, Salem's Lot and many others make appearances in various major and minor roles.
Commala-come-come,
The battle’s now begun!
And all the foes of men and rose
Rise with the setting sun.
https://youtu.be/HsGwMnHj7QY Grey Ghost on
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I feel like I should give this a shot though because that description sounds 200% rad
I read the first book a long time ago and I don't believe it ever even hinted
Well the first book is also the first book that King ever wrote.
So it's unlikely that you'll see any interconnectivity there.
he did revise it in 2003 and add roughly 35 pages of stuff
but looking this up has revealed that I didn't know he even published it back in the 80s, I thought the whole "first book he wrote" thing was just a bit of trivia, like he'd never released it
I thiiiiiiiink the framing story of book 4 is probably where that takes off
Though there may start being smaller hints here and there in 3
I'm hitting the part where Captain Trips is spreading like wildfire so the book hasn't really started
It was originally serialised in a SF magazine before it was published separately.
I've got my dad's original copy of the gunslinger and the revised version released before book 5 and the differences are really minor but make a big change to the readability
I can genuinely recommend that if you didn't like the first book, just skip it and go to the 2nd. Once you're in the second everything gets so much better.
because that's what the book needs, more of it.
A few years later King was speaking at the Miami international book fair, so my friend and I went to see him. When it got around to Q&A time, he flat out said he wouldn't be answering DT questions, and watching all these people slowly lowering their hands was pretty funny.
"Go then, there are other worlds than these"
Where the fuck did that come from, kid
The library only had the first few, but my math teacher had all of them, and she'd lend them to me while we talked about how cool they were
That's one of those moments where it kind of hits you in the face that King was nineteen when he wrote it.
I'm totally OK with it so long as it's not an excuse for a poor movie. That leaked trailer was cool to see, but at the same time, it is not what I had in mind when they said they were doing The Gunslinger. Then again, that's not even the title of the movie, so my point is invalid!
I'm on 157 so I'm just a little bit over...10% of the way through the book. Yeesh.
Randall hasn't even shown up yet and he's one of the main reasons I decided to read it because I've heard he's such a good villain and also
so far Frannie and Larry are my favorites.
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Also if the movie isn't full of Takuro Spirits and Nozz-a-la cola I'll be so disappointed.
From Steven King's Twitter:
And I'm pretty sure Insomnia and Hearts in Atlantis are the only non-Tower books that reference it.
Black House is also full of references to it.
Since the movie's out in like 3 months and they have not announced any casting nor were they in the trailer, it's pretty safe to assume Eddie and Susannah aren't in it
the comics go into this a lot more in depth and talk about what happens to him after, if you're into that!
also the connections tend to be much more dark tower directly referencing his other novels rather than other novels referencing the dark tower directly iirc; it is also fun to watch movie adaptations and play spot the reference, like in The Mist the main character is working on a painting that is Roland at the Tower. and I agree with everyone else that you can always skip book one and go back to it later without any real issues, I found the gunslinger kind of the hardest to get through on my first read
I just finished the third chapter.
I think you can go straight from there to "wind through the keyhole" which is essentially just a framing device fit Roland telling stories set in the world, pre-fall. It's got the same feel as w&g