The Dark Tower 1: The Gunslinger
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I began to read [u]The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger[/u] only last Saturday (its now Thursday) and Ive already finished it. Right along with the plot of the book I feel like time has become compressed or expanded however. Perhaps I expected a book with such a story to be longer like 300-400 pages as are most of the books I read. Its all quite trite though as ultimately...I wanted to think of it as long since that seemed an accurate explanation for how...
I completely loved the entire thing. Everything! The writing is so blatantly imaginative I dont have to try to view the scene in my head. The descriptions of characters all seem so crisp and livid. The environment and history though...whoa. I couldnt help, but to be reminded of Fallout with the immediate western setting though it was trivial since it had more to do with the old west than with the Wasteland...until I read "The Way Station" where The Gunslinger finds the ancient machine that pumped water with an atomic engine. It then mentions how amazed he is to find something working from so long ago. That scene and a few others made me realise that its somehow post-apocalyptic. Not that I need a relation to the Wasteland to enjoy something. Its just ironic and very special.
I dont know how many times the book has been printed or how many of them are different. However my books 1-4 are two hardback, fist-sized books and two paperback, 8 1/2 by 14 books. Ive also seen larger hardback ones. The thing is my first book is the large paperback and I think the illustrations are the best I've seen to represent a story. I dont mean to sound childish since anyone can enjoy pictures, but they were few and only showed very well-described events that the reader would probably want to see most. I cant remove the second to last picture from my head...
http://www.thedarktower.net/artwork/1/book1-05.jpg
Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller
I began to read [u]The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger[/u] only last Saturday (its now Thursday) and Ive already finished it. Right along with the plot of the book I feel like time has become compressed or expanded however. Perhaps I expected a book with such a story to be longer like 300-400 pages as are most of the books I read. Its all quite trite though as ultimately...I wanted to think of it as long since that seemed an accurate explanation for how...
I completely loved the entire thing. Everything! The writing is so blatantly imaginative I dont have to try to view the scene in my head. The descriptions of characters all seem so crisp and livid. The environment and history though...whoa. I couldnt help, but to be reminded of Fallout with the immediate western setting though it was trivial since it had more to do with the old west than with the Wasteland...until I read "The Way Station" where The Gunslinger finds the ancient machine that pumped water with an atomic engine. It then mentions how amazed he is to find something working from so long ago. That scene and a few others made me realise that its somehow post-apocalyptic. Not that I need a relation to the Wasteland to enjoy something. Its just ironic and very special.
I dont know how many times the book has been printed or how many of them are different. However my books 1-4 are two hardback, fist-sized books and two paperback, 8 1/2 by 14 books. Ive also seen larger hardback ones. The thing is my first book is the large paperback and I think the illustrations are the best I've seen to represent a story. I dont mean to sound childish since anyone can enjoy pictures, but they were few and only showed very well-described events that the reader would probably want to see most. I cant remove the second to last picture from my head...
http://www.thedarktower.net/artwork/1/book1-05.jpg
Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller
