The Dark Tower I

The Gunslinger Dark Tower (1)

by Stephen King

Paperback, 308 pages

English language

Published April 29, 2003 by New English Library.

ISBN:: 978-0-340-82975-2
OCLC Number:: 956973931

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Join the quest for the elusive Dark Tower

THE GUNSLINGER

This newly revised and expanded edition of The Gunslinger; for which Stephen King has written a special introduction and foreword, is the mesmerising first book in his spectacular, epic Dark Tower series.

In The Gunslinger, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner, on a spellbinding journey into good and evil, in a desolate world which frighteningly echoes our own.

In his first step towards the powerful and mysterious Dark Tower, Roland encounters an alluring woman named Alice, begins a friendship with Jake, a kid from New York, and faces an agonising choice between damnation and salvation as he pursues the Man in Black.

Both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, The Gunslinger leaves readers eagerly awaiting the next chapter.

And The Tower is closer. …

Join the quest for the elusive Dark Tower

THE GUNSLINGER

Both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, The Gunslinger leaves readers eagerly awaiting the next chapter.

And The Tower is closer. ..

--back cover

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Parenthesis_Liker reviewed The Dark Tower I by Stephen King (The Dark Tower I)

Review of 'The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I definitely enjoyed this book, but it is also definitely the start of a saga. Throughout the whole novel there's so, so many hints of a larger world, and bursts of rapid-fire world building. The world King is creating is strange and intriguing enough that I want to continue with this series just to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. There are also a fair few Stephen King-isms in here, to be sure, though I'm told not as many as the later entries. Really, it's a matter of how much you can tolerate the particular style. I'm writing this a long time after I read it so I apologize for the vagueness.

Lars SGS reviewed The Dark Tower I by Stephen King (The Dark Tower I)

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5 stars

Fra den første gangen jeg leste The Gunslinger, husket jeg den som en røff bok, åpenbart skrevet av en nittenåring, upolert og uerfaren.

Jeg husket feil. Kanskje ble jeg farget av forordet til King, hvor han forteller om å være nitten år og uerfaren, men med store drømmer. Kanskje fulgte jeg ikke godt nok med mens jeg leste. Kanskje trengte jeg å lese boka på nytt med en viss kjennskap til personene, verdenen og historien. Kanskje (sannsynligvis) er det alt dette.

Det er noe med The Dark Towers sykliske og drømmeaktige struktur som treffer meg, og som treffer meg spesielt godt fordi det er så mye informasjon i denne boka jeg husker fra senere, men ikke herfra. Ordene og setningene jeg for syv år siden husket som et løfte om noe større som kommer, slår meg nå ned i støvlene med en massivitet og en styrke, og selv om jeg …

Fra den første gangen jeg leste The Gunslinger, husket jeg den som en røff bok, åpenbart skrevet av en nittenåring, upolert og uerfaren.

Helvete, så bra denne boka er. Helvete som jeg gleder meg til hvert sekund av resten.