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My Book Review For: The Dark Tower Series. 'The Gunslinger'

Posted by ChickenGod - June 6th, 2009


I feel like reviewing something.

The first thing to come to my mind was the current book I'm reading...'The Dark Tower', the seventh, and final installment in an epic series by Stephen King. My next 7 blogs are going to be reviews for each of the seven books, hopefully I'll finish the 7th by the time I'm done with these first 6...

So, here's part one...

The Gunslinger

Immediately, within the first words of this book, you are confused...

There is a man fleeing across the desert, and a gunslinger is following him...

The names of both are not revealed.

The gunslinger is sitting at the remains of one of the man in black's campfires, when he had a flashback to the day before, when he stopped at a man's house, who had a raven named Zoltan, where the gunslinger told the man who was in the house about the time when he killed everybody in an entire town after chasing the man in black through....

Yes, confusing right?

Well, I'll slow it down.

The gunslinger is reminiscing to a recent time, when he had stopped at a man's house. The man had a raven, or crow, or some kind of bird, named Zoltan...not important...

Anyways, he tells the man about a time when he was going through a town that the man in black had went through about a week or two before.

The man in black brought back a man from the dead, and performed many other mystical deeds that caused some kind of harm.

Roland comes through, and stays in the town for a while. When he tells people of his intents to find the man in black, the townsfolk try to kill him. He kills everybody in the entire town and continues on...

As he was telling the man, who had welcomed him into his house, this, he reveals that he is the last gunslinger.

Apparently, gunslingers are knights, but cowboys at the same time... weird right?

So anyways, the man in the house gives him extra water, and some other provisions, and the gunslinger moves on...

At the ruins of the man in black's campfire, he spies a small house on the horizon.

Oh, and he's in the desert by the way, just to give you a picture...a vast, gigantic desert.

Before the gunslinger gets to the house, he is out of food and water, and he passes out from the heat.

When he awakes, a boy named Jake Chambers reveals that he had rescued him. He was in the house that he had spied, which was called a 'Way Station.'

Jake tells him that he doesn't know anything at all, about anything...where he is, how he got there...

So the gunslinger hypnotizes him, and figures out that Jake was hit by a taxi cab in a modern day New York, and was killed by it, and that when somebody dies in our world, they are reincarnated into the gunslinger's.

When Jake awakens, he decides that he wants to travel with the gunslinger.

They travel through the desert...

The gunslinger reveals to Jake (and us) that his name is Roland, but he is still narrated as 'gunslinger,' but for our purposes, I'll call him Roland.

Eventually, Roland and Jake come to mountains at the end of the desert, and Roland meets a demon. Demons are invisible creatures that are hermaphrodites and they always demand sex.

After Roland finishes with the demon, he learns that he isn't very far away from the man in black.

The book starts to get less mysterious just about here, because Roland reveals to Jake more about his childhood.

When Roland and Jake reach halfway up the mountains, they venture into tunnels where they are confronted with 'Slow Mutants.' Which are apparently giant blobs that are disgusting and monstrous...etc....etc...etc...

As soon as they get out of the tunnels, Roland sees the man in black.

As he rushes towards him, with Jake behind him, the man in black creates a hole (with magic) in front of Jake, in which Jake falls, only grasping onto the ledge with one hand (cliche much?)

The man in black tells Roland that he can either catch him, or save Jake. Not both.

Jake tells Roland to go and get the man in black, and to let him fall.

It is finally revealed to us what Roland wanted the man in black for...advice!!!

He wanted his fortune told...or Ka....

Ka in Roland's world, is the equivalent of fate in our world...

It is revealed to us that Roland's higher goal is to reach the Dark Tower, and save the world from destruction...

The man in black tells Roland his fortune, after which makes Roland fall asleep for 10 years, as the man in black escapes...

To anybody that has read Stephen King's 'The Stand,' the man in black is actually Randall Flagg.

Stay Tuned for the exciting conclusion....


Comments

I <3 that book!

The first 3 are incredible. The 4th one sucked, the 5th was alright, the 6th sucked, but the 7th I'm still reading, and it's alright, it reminds me of the 3rd, which was the last one where they were all together, traveling...

In the 4th, they were talking the whole time, in the 5th and 6th they were separated the whole time, but in this one, at the point I'm at, (even though I know the ending, and who dies and who lives) They're all together again, and it's a relief

I never really liked the Dark Tower series. I liked King's more obscure books better.

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