The Dark Tower
2004 • 686 pages

Ratings244

Average rating4.2

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The Dark Tower series tells the story of Roland Deschain, Mid-World’s last gunslinger, who is traveling southeast across Mid-World’s post-apocalyptic landscape, searching for the powerful but elusive magical edifice known as The Dark Tower. Located in the fey region of End-World, amid a sea of singing red roses, the Dark Tower is the nexus point of the time-space continuum. It is the heart of all worlds, but it is also under threat. Someone, or something, is using the evil technology of the Great Old Ones to destroy it.

In Roland’s where and when, the world has already begun to move on. Time and direction are in drift, and the fabric of reality is fraying. However, things are about to get much worse. The six invisible magnetic Beams, which maintain the alignment of time, space, size, and dimension, are weakening. Because of this, the Tower itself is foundering. Unless Roland can find a way to save the Beams and stabilize the Tower, all of reality will blink out of existence.

Inspired in equal parts by Robert Browning’s poem, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,” J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, and Sergio Leone’s spaghetti Western classics, The Dark Tower series is an epic of Arthurian proportions. It is Stephen King’s magnum opus, and is the center of his amazing creative universe. ([source][1])

Contains:

- [The Gunslinger][2]
- [The Drawing of the Three][3]
- [The Waste Lands][4]
- [Wizard and Glass][5]
- [Wolves of the Calla][6]
- [Song of Susannah][7]
- [The Dark Tower][8]


[1]: https://stephenking.com/darktower/book/
[2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81628W
[3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81616W
[4]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81625W
[5]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL149219W/Wizard_and_Glass
[6]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81594W
[7]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL149200W
[8]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL149195W

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The Dark Tower is a 9-book series with 7 primary works first released in 1974 with contributions by Stephen King.

The Little Sisters of Eluria
The Gunslinger
The Drawing of the Three
The Waste Lands
Wizard And Glass
The Wind through the Keyhole
Wolves of the Calla
Song of Susannah
The Dark Tower

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It had some good scenes, but for the most part was kind of a drag. I almost stopped reading halfway through.

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Precise rating: 3.5 ⭐

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