Official Dark Tower Thread.

[Fuþorc]

I hate to say this, but Morgan Freeman is going to be Kurtz. I pictured Kurtz to be the crazy old white general whose fought in too many wars. And I have read Black House and I actually liked it better than The Talisman.

 

[SculptedCold]

Stephen King was evil to regress The Dark Tower in time with the excellent Wizard And Glass and then leave the series dead for so fucking long. EVIL. EVIL. I actually thought it would never be completed, but the news is great indeed; I can't wait for the next installments now. One thing I didn't like however(although in general I have very much enjoyed the Dark Tower series so far) was how surreal it was getting. I admire King's ability to (usually) weave science fiction/horror/supernatural elements successfully into real-life situations and settings to the point of making them almost scarily believable, but nearing the end of The Wastelands, King was starting to just write stupidly surreal things in my opinon. The most potent memory I have is when they find Dorothy's red shoes and they set about tapping them or something to open the big doorway on the highway (or something like that) and it was just getting silly I think. He's done that in a couple other novels too; spoiled a good story by making the supernatural/horror elements far too incredible.

I think my favourite King works are the Bachman Books. There's something about them that is so.....despairing. I dunno, but the reason they resound more strongly with me is because they are, for the most part, realistic and devoid of aliens and monsters and magic. Everyone knows the scariest monsters and aliens are the ones you can't see, but not everyone accepts it. Harsh reality is the most potent of aggressors, and the way King can manipulate reality in a futuristic sense to leave a desolate wasteland of dead human emotion and morality is something I think he will always do best.

 

[Fuþorc]

I've always like King's characters because of the devoid emotion. King can do what so many other auther's can't.

 

[nafnikufesin]

I do like most of Stephen King's work. However, I haven't been a fan of the Dark Tower series. I've tried, I read the first 3 books and started on number 4, but I just don't like it. Didn't like the first one, and although the second one got a bit better, I've been reading more for an obligation ("I've read this much, I might as well finish it")...until I came to the realization that I have better things to do with my time.

Anyway, just my opinion...obviously there are a number of you here that like the series. Oh well, King can't please all of us all the time.

 

[Stondis]

Originally posted by Sonnenritter
Wow, I never come to this forum and the time I do was to start a Dark Tower thread... imagine that. Anyway, have any of you read The Black House yet? It's the sequel to The Talisman and explains what/who The Crimson King is and such.

It is GREAT, it's typical King, you just can't stop reading it.
I've just started on "From a Buick 8" and it is seems pretty good...

 

[Daybreaker]

The Dark Tower series is the best series ever written. When I was a kid when I first picked up the Gunslinger I read it like a ravenous madman. Ever since then every 2-3 1/2 years I re-read parts 1-4 and usually the first story in Atlantis too. If Black House deals with the Crimson King Ill definitely pick it up. Insomnia was fucking cool too with Ralph and the King.


So there IS gonna be a DT5 and 6? I thought he would puss out after the accident THEN when I heard Buick was his last I almost threw my boot into my tv. Anyways Im glad to see people here love the Tower as much as me. I could talk for hours on why I love it, the characters, theories I have on it etc.



Ben

 

[Fuþorc]

I'd personally drive up to Maine and kick Kings Ass if he retires before finishing the series.

Anyway, I'll read Buick 8 after I finish El Borak this week.