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The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1) by Stephen King

Era of Publication: 1982

Count of Pages: 304

Outline (from back cover): This gallant fantasy is set in a nature of ominous prospect and macabre threaten that is a dark mirror of our own. A spellbinding narrative of good against evil, it features once of Stephen King’s most mighty creations - The Gunslinger, a haunting outline who embodies the qualities of the solitary hero through the ages from of old time myth to limits western fiction. His pursuit of The Man in Swarthy, his liaison with sexually voracious Alice, his love with the kid from Earth called Jake, are part of the spectacle that is both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, an black of storytelling spell.

Review: After months of sense of hearing about The Dark Tower series, and since I’m already a big Stephen King fan, I determined to finally peruse the first book in the line, just to see what it was all about. It took me until the last boy-servant to decide what I musing of it. All I can say really is that I liked it, and I’m planning to peruse the next one, but of all the Stephen King books I’ve peruse, this was the most difficult and queer. The problems I had with this work were not stylistic; the volume is very well written, and the characters, though mysteriously apart from the reader, are well developed. The inscription character, known throughout most of the volume simply as the gunslinger, is not easily identifiable as a brave man and is deeply compounded. There are mysteries surrounding his ended, as well as the lives of most of the characters and the verity in which they live.  I meditate it was these very mysteries that I didn’t veritably love. They distressed me unexpectedly. However, being the first work in a series, it’s understandable that there will be unanswered questions. Anyone who ventures to peruse this book should be prepared to peruse the rest of the course! I certainly will.

Rating: 8/10

Reviewed by Sarah

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