The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1)

by Stephen King | Horror |
ISBN: 0451210840 Global Overview for this book
Registered by DEESSE of Erstein, Alsace France on 10/17/2005
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Journal Entry 1 by DEESSE from Erstein, Alsace France on Monday, October 17, 2005
When I told my Welsh friend that I like Fantasy novels, he told me that then I MUST have read this series! Even though my TBR-mountain is very high, I ordered the first book... because my friend told me that Stephen king took 34(?) years to finish this series - I think I can manage in 34 years to read all the books ;-) !

From the praise for this book:

In the first book of this brilliant series, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, the last gunslinger. Nothing will ever be the same. Roland's quest for the Dark Tower takes readers on a wildly epic ride - through parallel worlds and across time. A classic tale of colossal scope - crossing over terrain from "The Stand", "The Eyes of the Dragon", "Insomnia", "The Talisman", "Black House", "Hearts in Atlantis", "Salem's Lot" and other familiar King haunts - the adventure takes hold with the turn of each page.
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 Kind'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.
The gunslinger's quest involves the pursuit of the man in black, a liaison with the sexually ravenous Alice, and a friendship with the boy from New York called Jake. Both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, "The Gunslinger" is stunning proof of Stephen King's storytelling sorcery.

Journal Entry 2 by DEESSE at Erstein, Alsace France on Tuesday, December 12, 2017
So, finally some 12 years later I read this book. It's been some time that I finished it and I just put my hands on it while trying to put some order in my piles of books, so I try to remember...

It was quite interesting, the description of the worlds the "gunslinger" travels through on his pursuit of "The man in black", and the relationship with the young Jake. It was quite violent sometimes.
At times it felt like a mixture of "Lord of the Rings" with "The Walking Dead", (their subterrean passage...)
I think I might try the rest of the series, though.

Journal Entry 3 by DEESSE at Bookcrossing Convention Bordeaux 2018 in Bordeaux, Aquitaine France on Friday, April 20, 2018

Released 5 yrs ago (4/21/2018 UTC) at Bookcrossing Convention Bordeaux 2018 in Bordeaux, Aquitaine France

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