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We see the many adventures of Roland as he goes on through this world, and you just can't stop, and that is what makes this book. The Gunslinger is a fantastic piece of literature, the start to a series of epic proportions. The Gunslinger is greatly-written ride, with character, depth and the ability to keep the reader interested. From making a companion of a young boy named Jake Chambers to his brief love affair with a woman in a small Western town.that part doesn't end so well, to encounters with some terrible creatures in the mountains in pursuit of the Man in Black. The story starts with Roland the Gunslinger, last of an order known as the Gunslingers, chasing the Man in the Black through the desert. We do not fully know what world this is in, when it is, where these characters fully came from, but we know the Gunslinger is after the Man in Black, and just that keeps the reader going.
This book is a slow moving book.This was not his best i feel.Not worth what I payed for it.
Get through this book and move onto the second of the series, they get much better from then on. Books that prove to be an extraordinary epic. The Gunslinger, the first book in Stephen King's epic Dark Tower series, is a somewhat slow, vague, drawn-out story about an old-west style Gunslinger traveling across barren wastelands. This book sets the scene for the seven-book series which follows.
As it is I was left feeling that I had been led on and ultimately not quite rewarded. In this book a "gunslinger" follows a man in black across the desert. The reader learns enough about how he is, and about what made him that way - but we don't learn much about how he "feels" or what his personality is like - unless he is in fact a automaton without much in the way of personality or feelings, which may turn out to be the case.So, I'll read the next one, but if it leaves me feeling the same way I won't read the 3rd in the series. Also, while the gunslinger is an intriguing character, I was surprised that King didn't develop him better in this first book. We learn a bit about his past, and that there has been some sort of time disturbance. There are mutants and other strange things and a "Dark Tower" that has something to do with the gunslinger's destiny.I liked the book and I'll read the next one, but I would have preferred that it provide more information about the scope of the series or what the larger plot is.
I haven't read the entire saga that follows but this book has whetted my appetite and I may read the whole saga. I don't like giving plot "spoilers" I'll just say the reader follows a man on a mission of revenge, and Stephen King sure knows how to create a "moody" setting, this book gives you the "chills" in a sense because it's a dark post-apocalyptic type world where the reader can constantly feel the tension. I've read several of Stehen King's books, I think the Gunslinger is a very easy read, you can finish it in one afternoon. The story is not overly complicated, but it keeps you turning the page.
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