This heroic fantasy is set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace that is a dark mirror of our own. A spellbinding tale of good versus evil, it features one of STephen King's most powerful creations -- The Gunslinger, a haunting figure who embodies the qualities of the lone hero through the ages from ancient myth to frontier western legend. His pursuit of The Man in Black, his liason with the sexually ravenous Alice, his friendship with the kid from Earth called Jake, are part of the drama that is both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, an alchemy of storytelling sorcery.

This is a duplicate, but here are my thoughts as posted previously:

This was the second Stephen King book I ever tried to read. I checked it out of my middle school’s library because I thought the opening sentence (“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”) ranked in the top 10 best opening sentences ever — an opinion I still stand by. But, for one reason or another, I never got much further into the story. The beginning’s vagueness was a huge turn-off to the short attention span of my pre-teen self, but I’m glad I gave it a chance now that I’m old enough to appreciate the intricate storytelling.

While I still wasn’t overly impressed with The Gunslinger (part one), I’m looking forward to reading parts two and three in The Dark Tower series. The story’s concept is really what interests me: the idea that the mystery of existence isn’t about life, but about size and how our minds can’t grasp the extremes of measurements (we can neither imagine ourselves as being atom-sized pawns, nor universe-sized gods).

In the Afterward, King says The Dark Tower was born of “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,” a Robert Browning poem that he read while attending the University of Maine. Reading the poem gave a lot of insight to the story. For those who are interested, reading the poem first might clear up some of the initial vagueness in The Gunslinger’s plot without spoiling King’s story.

This is being sent today to solittletime, along with my sincere apologies.

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Received in the mail. What a surprise to get this package of books! Thanks so much, wyldanthem. I appreciate it.

Despite the arrow showing on this map, the books will be sent to Donetsk.

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