Stephen King's the Dark Tower Series

[Dry then Catch]

I'm not going to write a whole lot if no one has read it....Has anyone?

Let's just say I read books I through 6 in about one month.

[eo000]

Did your cable go out?

[Gamplayerx]

Yes, I read them.

[BigDun]

We downloaded the first book from Audible and tried to listen to it. I don't know about the entire book, but the first few chapters don't make for riveting listening material.

[Gamplayerx]

The first book was hard to get into.  They get better.

[Dry then Catch]

Gamp,

hold up i just woke up i'll write more when i get to work, but i pretty much just had a nightmare influenced by that book.  considering i forgot to take some of my meds (thats why my dreams get sort of intensifed, though i've been told the opposite), i almost felt as if i went TODASH.   it had to do with the vampires of Salem's lot.  ok i'm going to stop reading that book right before I go to bed. 

the odd thing is everyone, its not reallly a horror per se.


BD, i don't know if i would have enjoyed it audio either.  pick up a copy if you are still interested the mood seems to work better the other way.  the first one was written when he was 19. 

[Gamplayerx]

I'm holding up, sai catchr.

[Dry then Catch]

awesome

thankee sai

First, I assume you liked the overall series.
I'm not so certain if its so much a set of books I'll read over and over again, but its very capitvating its defintely put its "glam" on me.

I've mid way through Song of Susannah....
Which was your favorite thus far?  I liked the "flashback" book of when Roland was a young gunslinger.
I haven't read much king, though I've seen a few movies. Am I missing out on a lot of the references?

I'll spare everyone my dream, needless to say it was scary as shiat, and pretty much nonsensical.  though there was flying, death, vampires, clones, muppets, heights, trucks, rapists, militant homosexual, satanic priests posing as common people and firemen involved.

[Beefy]

I read the first book.  It was decent.

[Dry then Catch]

like Gamp said the first book doesnt do the rest of the series justice.

other than its weird, creepy atmosphere, which i have to say hasn't been matched.  its inevitable as we learn more about the characters and the world though. 

[Gamplayerx]

The flashbacks to young Roland with Susan Delgado is my favorite part of the series.  My least favorite is when Stephen King puts himself in the book.

[Beefy]

The flashbacks to young Roland with Susan Delgado is my favorite part of the series.  My least favorite is when Stephen King puts himself in the book.

Clive Cussler does that crap with every Dirk Pitt novel.

[Alice]

The flashbacks to young Roland with Susan Delgado is my favorite part of the series.  My least favorite is when Stephen King puts himself in the book.

Waldo does that crap with every Where's Waldo novel.

Talk about megalomania.     Fuck him.

[Dry then Catch]

The flashbacks to young Roland with Susan Delgado is my favorite part of the series.  My least favorite is when Stephen King puts himself in the book.

i concur 100% on both counts.  I am sad that probably the agreed upon best part is over.  i haven't seen "King" yet, but its being alluded to and I'm about to cringe. 

do you think it would be a good movie?

[Gamplayerx]

It would have to be like a 20 hour movie.  But I'd watch it. 

[Dry then Catch]

did you see the Stand?  wasn't that like a 20hr movie.  Good, but still mini-series cheesy.

who would you cast?  NO obvious Roland by a young Clint Eastwood. 

[Gamplayerx]

Of course I saw The Stand.

Eww.  Don't put Clint Eastwood's name anywhere near Roland.

[ReBurn]

Clint Roland Eastwood.

It's like a Clint sandwich.

[Gamplayerx]

And to think I used to like ReBurn so much.

[ReBurn]

At least I didn't say Clint Gamp Eastwood in the same context.

You might not have liked that.

[Gamplayerx]

Thanks for the restraint on that bit.  I know it must have been tough for you.

[ReBurn]

You have no idea.

[Dry then Catch]

what about Hugh jackman as roland.  Roland is more the lanky strong type though, than the overtly buff.

[Alice]

William H. Macy as Roland.

[Dry then Catch]

William H. Macy as Roland.

Queen Latifah as Susannah