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Summary: Changed the subject, but probably necessary
Review: I think this book will stand better when the next book comes out and the gang is back on the road. I think it will play a key role in the future. You won't understand the future if you don't know about the past. Also, with all of the comments about Cuthbert, Alain and Susan, I think everybody would have been quite disappointed if there was no explanation as to who they were, and why they were important to Roland. The story itself was great and could have almost stood alone.
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Summary: A truly outstanding Wasted Effort. Zero stars
Review: I do not recommend this installment in the Dark Tower series. There is so little to do with the journey that it can be safely skipped. And in my opinion should be treated as tho it doesn't even exist. It's better not to taint your mind with this book. Hold out for V.I mean, COME ON!, 500 droning pages on Rolands past romance.Who needs all that past? This is suppose to be a forward going adventure! If Mr King wanted to massively backpedal he should of as J.R.R.Tolkien did with "The Silmarillion". The main characters have stagnated. Susannah with her blacksugar jive talk, Eddie with his past drug bs and pukie mouth. Those type of outward personas people project of themselves are usually shed(or at least tempered) after a very short while when no longer in their native environment. The characters are not evolving/maturing as they should. Then after all the history we're force fed, of all things, "The Wizard of Oz" How utterly disappointing/insulting/cheap. Flinch & Ouch ;o( Next suddenly, Marten(Maerlyn the wizard) becomes R.Flagg(remember him? from The Stand). BUMMER Another cheap shot. I'd like to why and what for? The Dark Tower is too GRAND a tale and has come too far to be cheapened by or contaminated with other novels. Oy is the stories only future/saving grace that I can see from here on out, unless Mr. King gets off the yellow brick road to Vegas. Oy needs equal time anyway! Stop taking him for granted and treating him like a dog. He's my favorite :o) The first 3 volumes of The Dark Tower are fabulous/highly recommended!
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Summary: The best series I have read in a long time!
Review: Roland says, "The world has moved on." And BOY has it ever, but Susan must come back. I especially enjoyed the female characters. They were really fleshed out. Can't wait for the next book. Is the beam ever going to end? "Bird bear fish and hare."
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Summary: The Journey to The Dark Tower stalls...
Review: Steven King writes an epic western, a tale of love and sacrifice. Too bad he used this series to tell the story. This could have been a tale set in the old west, another genre King could have been put his stamp on but instead the reader is sent through a journey into Roland's past. King's a craftsman and the story moves along but it didn't move the journey towards the tower any closer. It was a story King felt he needed to tell but maybe it didn't need to be part of Roland's journey.
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Summary: The best of the series!
Review: This book was true, exciting, thought provoking reading. The dark tower is exciting in itself, but this book made us dig deeper into the characters. I couldn't put this book down. It was a wonderful book to read. I would definately say that it is the second best book of his that I've ever read. The first was the Green Mile, and it's up there with Bag of Bones and the Stand.
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Summary: Wicked
Review: First off, this book was awesome as is to be expected from Stephen King but I dont think anyone has mentioned the phenomenol artwork of Dave McKean, which is equally brilliant.I doubt many people need to be told about King's other work, but if you like McKean's illustrations here,might I suggest his earlier collaboration with author Neil Gaiman called Mr. Punch or his own graphic novel Cages.
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Summary: I've never wanted a fictional charactor as much as Roland.
Review: I have read this series of books over the corse of five years. The amount of intrigue that acopanies Roland of Gilead is unmatched. I crave him. After finishing IV I went nucking futs for a good half an hour, ranting and stomping about. The book is almost 800 pages and not long enough.
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Summary: Could be a split in the series?
Review: This book took to long in coming. The best of the series, so far! I can see another series coming, "The Life and Times of Roland", Could be a spin off from the "Gunslinger" series. I hope not. Keep them together but get the next one out soon!
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Summary: best of the four
Review: Nice to have some romance once and a while
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Summary: It was good, but too long...
Review: I like all of SK's books but this one was a bit too long and dragged out. What I would like to point out though and I have seen it in a few other reviews is this...You all are waiting for the last book to this series but I don't think you're going to get it, please let me explain. Back when the books "Desperation" and "The Regulators" (which were great books) came out the bookstore in my town had this deal. You bought both of these books they were selling together and you got the last chapter of the "Gunslinger" I didn't buy it because I already had one of the two books offered in the deal. When I asked the guy working behind the counter what was going on he said that this was the only way you were going to find out what happened to Roland and his traveling companions and it wasn't suppose to be available any other way. I was so furious that I walked out of the store. The book they were selling with his newest books was a shabby little paper back that couldn't have been more than 100 pages at the most. How can that story be summed up in that little bit? So could someone tell me what's going on?
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