The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1)

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Summary: Un hijo para King.
Review: De todos los libros que he leido de este autor esta saga es, sin lugar a dudas, la mejor. No posee ese suspenso y terror a bestias salvajes, demonios o zombies sino que tiene un terror a lo que tenemos adentro. Este libro muestra el interior de cada uno de los personajes sus odios, sus miedos, sus penas y sus amores. Una historia que comienza con un hombre solo y que pronto se convierte en una aventura de varios. Como bien dice el señor King esta obra es su hijo ya que el puso toda su dedicacion y mejor talento en el. La saga de la torre oscura es una saga para tener en todas las casas de los amantes del genero. Nicolas Pierri.

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Summary: Short. But a good read.
Review: The Gunslinger is book about a super-hero persuing an arch villan in another dimension. It's like a darker version of the Batman comics. Everything about it is unoriginal. The most unoriginal character is The Man in Black. People who see UFO's have reported being visited by mysterious "men in black" since the 1950's. The 1997 feature length film was based on a comic book. The Gunslinger is just Superman fighting Lex Luther. The other characters are stupid and don't do anything. Other than that, it has a very thin plot. I mean, why is the Gunslinger fighting The Man in Black anyway?

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Summary: Completly different and amazing. It's perfect.
Review: If you read it you will love it. It will make you wonder about all the possibilities that our universe has to offer. I only hope the ending will be worthy of the most incredible idea that Mr. King has offered us , so far. It is a story so immense that I hope he doesn"t finish it for another ten years. It will be worth it.I have read almost all of King's books. Although there not all equally good. They are all great stories. I hate it when people criticize him. Most of the time they are speaking from positions of ignorance any way. They are people who obviuosly are not very good at reading to begin with because they cannot grasp the ideas that he presents. Read the Dark Tower. It's an expience you won't forget.

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Summary: WOW - IF YOU READ TO ESCAPE THEN THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU
Review: This is by far one of the best books that i have ever read. I am a big King fan, yet you don't have to be a King fan to appreciate this novel. It is quite different from most of his others. What is very intriguing about this book is that one is not sure where it is set. It is set in a time when the world has moved on which would lead one to believe that it is futuristic, however at the same time the setting could be considered both medieval and western. In this novel we get our 1st glimpse of Roland one of King's most notorious characters. Roland is in search of the Dark Tower which is basically the center of all worlds. Due to his search Roland has hardened, he has made many sacrifices for the tower. The tower and his guns being perhaps the only thing that Roland loves. Everyone that i have ever recommended this book to has loved it and i am sure that you will too. King will not be remembered as a great writer, but he will be remembered as one of the best storytellers of alltime. Read this book, it is a must.

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Summary: don't worry, it gets better
Review: I started reading this book three years ago, at the age of 13. I got 60 pages into it before it was stolen, but I remembered loving it. When I finally got a new copy and read it again this year, I was let down. King explains that he wrote the book over 12 years at different times, and clearly his skill improved with time. The book is at varying levels of quality. The first part seems like a EC-comic western, with bizzare, degenerate characters and bleak, unexplained culture. The book crawls along until the pulse-quickening fourth part, "The Slow Mutants" and the hallucinegenic final chapter. It's a short book, and quick reading, but it's a weak introduction to the Dark Tower series.

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Summary: Eerie, creepy western with a dash of sci-fi
Review: I loved this book. Roland and his persuance of the Man in Black is a very eerie piece of writing and the way King ties it into The Stand(another scary,brilliant piece of his imagination) is creative. He twists the reader's thinking as to whether the story happened in the past, the present or is an apocalyptic vision of the future.

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Summary: Hands up for King
Review: The Gunslinger was a great book (It did dissapoint me alittle with his talking about earth things and electrictiy(I am a serious fantasy fan)). I just started the Drawing of the Three and it is pretty good. NOt a book to pass up if you are a fantasy fan.

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Summary: It's good, but still doesn't stand up to the series.
Review: Don't get me wrong, this isn't a bad book. But it's rather slow, and gets a bit dull at times. Don't give up though, this is the first in one of the the best series I ever read! The second is the best, and the third and fourth are great as well. Just read this as an opening, and then continue to the rest (they're great, trust me). Long live the dark tower series!

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Summary: Slow but vital
Review: The Gunslinger is a necessarily slow introduction to the vast universe called Midworld and the samurai like gunslingers who control it. Midworld has "moved on", the Dark Tower is weakening, and Roland, the last gunslinger, has accepted as his Ka the job of righting the damage begun by The Ageless Stranger. Be glad that you have The Drawing of the Three to move on to, and continue this masterful saga of interwoven lives and worlds as Roland begins to shape his Ka-tet for the terrible journey ahead.

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Summary: A fantastic blend of several topics into one AWESOME story!
Review: This is perhaps the most unique book that I have read in a long time. There is no real "category" that this book can even fall under. Beware: reading this novel will literally suck you into a world where you will want to keep reading about!