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Summary: good book
Review: The Gunslinger by Stephen King is a great book. It has everything that you would expect from this exceptional author. It has horror, suspense, violence, and relationships. There is a great balance between action and suspense, with just the right amount of filler and details between action sequences. It even has the epic struggle between good and evil that has become so important in most Stephen King books. In my opinion, it it the best Stephen king book I have ever read and I'm looking foreward to reading the other books in The Dark Tower series.
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Summary: excellent
Review: this is Stephen King at his darn best!with this book, he has created a magical world. i only hope he can finish it before leaving this planet. at the pace he is going, it doesnt look pretty for us Gunslinger fans.
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Summary: King's Journey into the World of Fantasy
Review: The Gunslinger is the first part of what is and will be Stephen King's epic saga into the realm of Fantasy. King uses his unique style of writing to help capture the reader's imagination and catapult the reader into the world of Roland the Gunslinger. The premise of the first book is very simple yet complex. The main character is Roland, who we come to learn is the last of a line of Gunslingers. As we meet Roland for the first time, he is on the trail of the Man in Black. Roland's travels take him through a world that is part medieval, part fantasy, and part Old West. The landscapes that King creates of this world that has passed by, from the Old West town to the infinite desert, to the labyrinth under the mountains adds to the atmosphere of the novel and are described in vivd detail. What adds to the complexity is the journey itself. Roland is after the Man in Black but the reader is never sure exactly why. The reader is given clues throughout but the tale becomes almost cryptic at points causing the reader to journey along with Roland carefully. Along the way Roland meets a variety of characters including Jake, a boy from our own world. King also suggests that this world of the Gunslinger is parallel to ours and may even be our world at some distant future. Constant references are made to instances of our own pop culture. Overall this book is a great success. It is a fast paced read that will make you want to keep turning the pages as you journey with Roland to his ultimate quest -- The Dark Tower.
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Summary: Nice...
Review: The Gunslinger is a very good book, but hard to grasp. Sometimes you don't understand what's going on (but that might be my problem). Very quick-paced, mainly because you can't put it down. Not King's best but, otherwise, a good book.
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Summary: a bone-dry beginning
Review: I am a huge fan of Stephen King's Dark Tower series of books. I think that "Wizard and Glass" is possibly the best book he has written so far. I am always evangelizing others on the greatness of King's massive uber-story. Yet book one, "The Gunslinger," seems to be one heck of a stumbling block for most folks. This is understandable. The story begins with Roland (the main protagonist of the series) in his darkest place. He has become hardened, unable to love. The story ends with him making the most heartless of decisions. "The Gunslinger puts the capital "G" in Grim. Yet this almost unbearably bleak backdrop is essential to what the story of Roland and the Dark Tower becomes. In it we learn of what Roland is--a "Gunslinger"--and how he became one. We learn of the treachery that has set the course of Roland's destiny in motion. Most of "The Gunslinger" comes off like a flashback wrapped inside a horrible hallucination. Bad things happen and there is no fulfilling end to this part of the tale. It understandably turns a lot of folks off to going any further with The Dark Tower. I am here to tell you to keep on pressing on. King's story is, in my opinion, turning into one of the most epic and worthwhile tales ever written. The dryness of the Gunslinger is more than compensated for in the following books.
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Summary: A Beautiful Heap of Filth
Review: This is the first book I have ever dared read by Stephen King. I stole it from my HS Library, perhaps out of the typical fun that emerges from shoplifting or perhaps to do a duty that the Gunslinger would approve of. This first book hits right at the gut; Stephen King doesn't explain any of the incredible things that happen, he just writes it as it is with an undying darkness and classic prose. I do not recomend this book for the average King reader, as I have progressed through this series I have relealized that the Darkness has brightened and autenticity has kinda lost its edge. This first book stands alone as rebellion, complete and utter rebellion, I could feel, see, smell, and taste the rebellion and darkness as King wrote it. The second book memerized me like eye candy. The third kinda enterained me and kept me on the edge. The fourth and third books were labelled "TEEN" in my library. The first one once was placed in the most dangerous of adult sections. It sits of my drawer now, it shall stay there, illegitimate in the dark, gunslinger-esque way that stays in a small 300 page book (as compared to the others) unchanged and simply amazing. I recommend this first book only for someone old enough to deal with the real world: drugs, murder, prostitution, and a little bit of that gunslinger justice, good but not Too good.
Thank you Mr. King for this excellent book. Regards,
Bill Stubler PS: To the young readers, read book III and IV first and then go to this book when you're ready.
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Summary: M-O-O-N that spells BORING
Review: I read this book 6 years ago before I started college and it's as memorable as my freshman semester's party induced blur. This book's no party though. Some dude wanders around in the desert for 300+ pages. Wow.
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Summary: Persevere - it's worth it.
Review: One of the few King novels I've ever had trouble getting into was The Gunslinger. But persevere, because so much depends upon this first book when reading the following volumes of the series. The Oracle's prophecy, the dark man's vision, the sacrificial child who becomes increasingly important as the series grows. Perhaps it was the sparse writing that put me off to begin with - so different from the rich, textured feel of most of King's novels. It's also difficult to empathise with the lone gunslinger. But again, as the series goes on, it's intriguing to watch this obsessed man change and develop further. One needs a starting point, and the cold, single-minded man that Roland is at the outset is a noble one. Still, I was glad when I watched him gradually change and begin to love more than just his Dark Tower
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Summary: An excellent book, truly one of King's best
Review: This is the book that got me started on King. It's about a mysterious man who's God only knows how old who has been chasing the mysterious man in black for only God knows how long and coming closer and closer to the dark and mysterious (That word keeps on coming up, doesn't it? Must be because it's a mysterious book.) Dark Tower. In this book, he gets declared the anti-christ by a possessed preacheress, slaughters an entire town, travels with a boy from our world, encounters a demon, and finally catches up withthe man in black, plus much more.
The gunslinger was an excellent character, a cold dark one, but nonetheless a good character.
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Summary: This is the book that started me on King...
Review: This book has been out for years, and even if I had never read it I would love it if I read it today. This is the book that started my enjoyment of reading. I read this book when it first came out in paperback, and it was so enjoyable that I became a true 'reader.' Even if you don't like some of the King books that have came out lately, this one will not let you down.
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