About this title: In an alternate world that darkly mirrors our own, the Gunslinger pursues The Man in Black in a harrowing struggle between good and evil.
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Signet Books, New York
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780451160522ISBN:0451160525
Description: Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. The book is very solid with unmarked pages. The cover has minor shelf wear & moderate edge wear. The spine has a few creases. read more
Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Signet Book
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780451160522ISBN:0451160525
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 320 p. Contains: Illustrations. Dark Tower (Paperback), 1. Audience: General/trade. Spine is in tact w some chipping, tight, edgewear, chipped edging, reading crease. Inside pages are clean and clear w some tanning. read more
Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Signet Book
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780451160522ISBN:0451160525
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Scuff on cover. Light edge wear. No marks. Tanning of pages. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 320 p. Contains: Illustrations. Dark Tower (Paperback), 1. Audience: General/trade. "Brilliant, fresh and compelling...will leave you panting for more, more, more! "--Booklist read more
Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Signet Book
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780451160522ISBN:0451160525
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 320 p. Contains: Illustrations. Dark Tower (Paperback), 1. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Signet Book
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780451160522ISBN:0451160525
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 315 p. Contains: Illustrations. Dark Tower (Paperback), 1. Audience: General/trade. Lite Use/Wear read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Signet
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780451160522ISBN:0451160525
Description: Very Good. {VG-} Mass Market Paperback. Light spine creases; edgewear. Back cover corner creases. FIRST EDITION. Original cover art. Pages beginning to yellow due to age. read more
Description: Very Good. 0452261341 Great condition Soft Cover book, clean pages, mild creases to spine, light edge/corner rubs, this book is GREAT! Shop & Save With US. read more
Description: Good. 0452261341 Good condition paperback book, some creases to spine, some edge/corner rubs, may have corner crease, small edge tear or spine slant, a good book for reading. Shop & Save With US. read more
Description: Very Good. 0452261341 Great condition Soft Cover book, clean pages, mild creases to spine, light edge/corner rubs, this book is GREAT! Shop & Save With US. read more
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Contains: Illustrations. Dark Tower (Paperback), 1. Audience: General/trade. pages are foxed but clean, tight, and unmarked-back cover has a crease from top to bottom-corners, spine ends, and the edge of the covers all are worn-spine shows several places where part of the cover is gone both at the top, bottom, and a part of the center of the spine-still a very readable copy read more
Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Signet Book
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780451160522ISBN:0451160525
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. A great used copy with only minor edge wear to cover and spine has creases from previous reading. Pages are like new! Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 320 p. Contains: Illustrations. Dark Tower (Paperback), 1. Audience: General/trade. read more
"I don't even want to write a review of this series until I've at least read book 2, but I will do something that I've never done before: review the Foreword.
Stephen King is revisiting a series that was the spark of his 19 year old imagination and in the decades since, he has grown both as a writer and a person. He has done more than write the finish that devoted fans of the series have been clamoring for, he has edited the original novels and released a "director's cut" if you will--something that can be more cohesive and reflective of the writer he is today. He addresses all of these things in the Foreword in a way that only Stephen King can. If I wasn't a fan, I'm sure I would be one after those few pages. I want to recommend reading the Introduction to anyone that wants to be a writer, anyone who loves books as much as I do, anyone who wants insight into the human psyche, etc. Stephen King is a master story-teller (no matter what the story is) and the Foreword to the remastered Dark Tower series is like a condensed Opus.
I'll be adding more of my own thoughts on the actual series as I progress.
"This is for all the books in Stephen King's The Dark Tower. I believe it was an amazing body of work, and it has everything a dark fanasty had to offer, from awesome gun fights, standoffs, horrible and scary creatures, psychos with deadly intent, dead babies jokes, Kung Fu fighting, and a while not a great ending but a more fitting ending in which ironically, the quest becomes the actual story, not the end of the quest. Ultimately, his quest was the quest itself.
It is the greatest apolayspetic tale that reached far in the wasteland of the future, going from the sixties, seventies, eighties interwovened into each other. The characters are realistic and greatly drawn with strength and weakness.
The only thing I find a bit off is the recycling of the Salemn Lot's character, and the bit of metafiction although Stephen King carried it off well, I think he indulged himself a bit too much. But in midst of the great masterpiece, he has the wholly right to call himself a word slinger."
"It was 1970 when Stephen King, at his final year of university, received a gift: a stack of coloured paper. At this time, the King could not imagine how important that story would have been in his life as a writer, maybe. He spent 12 years to complete this first chapter of the most exciting and best-selling horror/fantasy saga,"
"I finished this book over a weekend...so for what that's worth. For what it is, it's great, lots of fun, and touching on large, exciting themes. It's the kind of story that gets my blood pumping. I was captivated for long stretches and I'd look up and find that three hours and a hundred pages had slipped by. I found myself skipping over the text and stealing ahead on the page trying to get a glimpse of what was coming, devouring the pages like that, the blood and bullets and magic. These are the marks of good storytelling.
I think the Revised and Expanded version is the way to go, but really, I have nothing to compare it to. King, seventeen years more practiced and able to consider the tale in its entirety, felt compelled to polish it up, and so I picked this edition, because it sounded like the best one.
The introduction offers some thoughts on the series and acknowledgements to The Lord of the Rings and Sergio Leone's The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. This announcement made it hard to ignore the parallels, which detracted a little something from the experience. But the story does have its own richness; its own mysteries.
Part of wants me to let the story end here. Just stop reading the series. Let it be a wonder, and sail on to other things. I like the idea of that. But it's too easy to find the next book at the library and just gobble it up. I've got no T.V. so it's like easy T.V. for my brain. My Brain!"
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