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lame...
“This book just isn't any good. There are moments of enchantment and fantasy. However, they are bogged down by King's pretentious use of character dialogue (you need a dictionary at every page of the book) and King's unimaginative way of using made up words (to obviously describe made up worlds and their societies) without defining what the words actually mean! It's bad writing at best. It's as if King wrote this thinking it was going to be special and great and that it was going to be his `Narnia' or `Lord of the Rings.' Not even close, bro. I sadly bought the second book when I bought the first one. Not even going there... I look forward to reading his new book, `Under the Dome.' However, skip this bloated piece of self indulgence and save your cash...”
An amazon user wrote this on 2009-11-06. -
Higher expectations
“When I read the short story called "Little Sisters of Eluria" by Stephen King, I liked it so much that I was really looking forward to getting my hands on the first book of The Gunslinger series. But, throughout the entire book, I did not experience any of the level of involvement that I did with the short story. I didn't want to stop reading "Little Sisters..." I have heard that this series gets better as you go along, but I am not one to purchase and read the second book when the first one did not grab me. If I am not pulled in in the first couple of chapters, I usually put a book down. But, because of the short story - and because this was Stephen King, who I respect tremendously, I read on and finished the book. But, I have to say that I was disappointed because I really had much higher expectations. ”
An amazon user wrote this on 2009-11-05. -
The beginning or the saga!!
“The beginning of one of the best series ever! This was a gift for my father. I love all of the dark tower books!”
An amazon user wrote this on 2009-11-02. -
Don't do it to yourself
“This is really a review on the whole series. I put it on the first book in hopes of catching some people before they start reading. Let me start by saying I found this series on a site detaling the "best 25 sci-fi/fantasy stories of all time" and I know there's no accounting for taste but this series is average at best and I can't imagine anyone putting it in even the "best 100". Each book is overly long (not meaning too many pages but too many pages for what is covered) and scenes are overly drawn out. I'm not going to go into specifics of the stories because I don't want to spoil anything for anyone, but the ending blows....hard and if you manage to make it that far you're going to wish you hadn't. If you're looking for good sci-fi/fantasy look elsewhere (I recommend Dune, The Chronicles of Amber, The Name of the Wind, The Darkover novels, The Farseer Novels, The Last Hearld Mage, pretty much anything but this series). Again don't waste your time or your money on any of these books.”
An amazon user wrote this on 2009-10-23. -
The beginning of an epic journey.
“The start of king's magnum opus, the dark tower, the gunslinger. Very quickly the reader is sucked into rolands universe. A gunslinger in a dieing world where at first we don't know very much except that he's chasing the man in black across the desert. The book then starts to feed us bits and pieces of the gunslingers back story and introduces us to a few characters from his past we have not yet met but are starting to learn about. I thought this was a fantastic novel, and enjoyed it from the first page all the way to the back cover. Very well written and imaginative, the gunslinger is a triumph! Read it now.”
An amazon user wrote this on 2009-10-11.
