The Dark Tower Series (Stephen King's Masterpiece) [Archive]

GlazedDonuts

03-17-2006, 10:42 AM

Hells Yes! Dark Tower was one of the series that kept me reading normal books, kind of meh about the ending of the series, i wasnt so much worried about what was at the top of the Tower, as I was about the history of End-World, what caused the world to "move on" and what events sparked and occured during the Revolution at Gilead, more backstory please, especially about Rolands younger days.

Adrian_Alexander

03-17-2006, 10:47 AM

There is a comic coming out about his younger days...

I was addicted mainly because it was a great story....

(Your avatar just gave me nightmares for the rest of my life...)

penguinminor

03-17-2006, 10:59 AM

I still haven't finished reading the 7th book yet. Xp
I know, I know, I'll get on it when I have the money to actually buy the book.
My favorite installment was The Wastelands.

Adrian_Alexander

03-17-2006, 11:06 AM

I hated The Wastelands. The best installment was definately The Drawing of the Three.

Libby

03-17-2006, 11:09 AM

I looooove it. Sometimes they're hard to read, just because the feeling of depth and hopelessness starts to weigh down on me... Did anyone else feel that way? Dark Tower books always take twice as long for me to read as anything else, because I have to pause every once in a while to look up and go, "Phew, I'm still in the normal world." ^_^ Despite that, I've read most of them more that once (the exception being The Gunslinger). My favorite in the series is The Wolves of Calla -- I've read that once several times...

It got me interested in his other books...

GlazedDonuts

03-17-2006, 11:31 AM

I actually read most of his other work before reading The Dark Tower series, so everytime i read anything that related back to any of his other books I kind of had a little mental party for figuring it out.

Most notably the tie ins to Insomnia and It.

Rekli

03-23-2006, 11:53 AM

I have read the first one and really liked it. My brother and dad read the whole series and liked it too. Someday I shall read the next book.

YuKitsuneYoukai

03-24-2006, 09:13 AM

*bows to all in deep respect*

"Indeed, a very good series; I even have my own dinh. I started reading the series my freshman year (two years ago), and read The Gunslinger[i], [i]The Drawing of the Three, The Wastelands, and Wiard and Glass; all my freashman year, now I'm picking the series back up as someone has been so kind as to lend me the last three, and am now reading Wolves of the Calla; almost done! Also, has anyone read To Childe Roland the Dark Tower Came by Robert E. Browning? The poem by which the entire series was inspired? Or [i]Concordance of the Dark Tower[i]?"

"Sorry.. I tend to love the series myself.."

^^;;

PeNCILz

03-24-2006, 10:21 AM

The poem is included in the final novel...

YuKitsuneYoukai

03-24-2006, 11:15 AM

*bows in deep respect*

"Gomen nasai. I didn't know, again, I'm on the fifth of the series. Sorry if I've been a bother."

^^;;

tsukasa

03-24-2006, 01:08 PM

H-How???
W-Why???
I-It sucked so much after he put himself into it, and tied it into his accident, and it was just so terrible, and the end was even worse Roland goes back in time??? ends where the first book begins, Oh, and now all of a sudden, he has a horn - how did he get the horn???? King lost his touch as a writer years ago!!!! He now just plain sucks, and if any other writer took the easy way out, cuase the didnt know how to finish what started as a great series, they would be ridiculed. Look at the Bachman books, the only reason the now seel, is cause they have his name on the covers - people are dumb, they will buy something even if they dont like it, I'm glad book 4 was the last one i bought, the rest i got from the Library.

I cant stand the fact that he had to go and tie some of his really good books into this crap of a series.

PeNCILz

03-24-2006, 02:30 PM

LOL Your funny. Don't you get how it all makes sense in the story? Yeah at first I thought it was real conceited and narcissistic to put himself in it but then I realized that it made sense. Look at it this way. In that series all worlds are tied together. So that must mean that even the world we are in had to come into the story somewhere.

Yes if you decided to read the ending inside the coda part the ending sucked but if you read the real intentional ending, the one he wanted to be the ending, then the ending was good. But he knew fans would be angry if he did not show them the tower. So he did. Don't you get it? Roland is what makes the tower go on and on. Time will go on after everyone dies so don't you think that Roland, what made time rebuild itself, go on too? The tower had ever bit of his past inside it. Roland is the tower. Now the horn is supposed to be a symbol for something but I have not found that out yet...

Also if you think the series sucked so much why did you go through with it? Why did you not put it down and not continue reading? If you hated it so much why did you not find something else to read? King must have some storytelling ability to have kept someone who hated it so much to read to the end.

:p

tsukasa

03-25-2006, 12:57 AM

I invested so mush time and money into the first 4 that i just needed to finish the series, or it would be bothering me.
Plus about halfway through book 5 is where it started to go downhill for me.

PeNCILz

03-25-2006, 01:41 AM

Admit it! It would have bothered you because you wanted to know what was going to happen at the end. You needed it like a junky needs his fix. If it really was such a bother to read them and caused you so much anguish for reading said novels then you would have given them up as soon as the story did not go the way you wanted it to go. Stephen King does not write for his fans. He does not write for money. He does not write for anyone (excluding the Ideal Reader whom he wants to please with his writing...) but himself. The story went the way he wanted it to not the way he thought the fans wanted the story to go. If you constantly think of how a story will end a way that will make the fans happy then the novel is going to be predictable and unstasifying (atleast to me... I want to read a novel that goes a way someone else wants the novel to go. Not the way I want it to go. That is why I write...) The reader will find theirself predicting the next thing that will happen in the novel and will become bored and put the novel down. If the novel was such a waste of time why did you continue to waste your time and read it? Nobody wants to waste their time.

tsukasa

03-25-2006, 02:03 AM

ok, while i did admit that i wanted to know what would happen, i also did think it was an interesting read. i just dont like the fact that he made his accident a major plot point.

PeNCILz

03-25-2006, 02:08 AM

Mull it over a bit. I did not think that was a good thing either but the worlds had to intersect with the real one at one point in time and that had to be it. Also it makes sense. Stephen King the creator of the series being a part of it because the series does have all those different worlds and "all serve the beam". So he had to put himself in there at one point in time and when that came in the sixth book first I hated the idea then thought it over and thought that it was quite clever.

(More info on his accident can be derived from that of his non-fiction writing memoir On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft.)

tsukasa

03-25-2006, 02:14 AM

Well, technically, it's not our world that Roland comes to, but a very close aproximation, like one step over from ours, i know, im negating myself, but i still dont have to like that he is in his own book. there was more i didnt like about the series, but i'd have to re-read it to remember, but i dont feel like it.

plus if he got the horn at the end, if he keeps going, will he ever lose his original dihn?

PeNCILz

03-25-2006, 02:23 AM

Well if I remember correctly then instead of leaving the horn at that battle (the name fleets my fifteen year old mind at this moment... o.O) he now has it in his possesion in this cycle of The Dark Tower. It is an important artifact in the series and supposedly has great power I surmise. I guess he instead of leaving it behind when Cuthbert died he took it with him. This could even pose to change the story alot in this new cycle. Also, in the marvel comic, we will learn more about his past. You know all the adventures with Alain, Cuthbert, and whoever else he meets along his way. I for one hopes this fleshes out that battle where Cuthbert and Alain died...

tsukasa

03-25-2006, 02:35 AM

I loved the stuff about the past, but i refuse to by American comics anymore.

Thats what i meant about the horn, all of a sudden he has it at the begining of the 1st book, so, if everything changed in the past(how else would he have the horn), that means everything in the future changes too, so, if it keeps going like that everytime he gets to the dark tower, whos to say, that eventually cuthbert and alain will/wont be with him?

the ending was a cheap way out is what im getting at. i dont think he really knew how to end it, and he had to meet his deadline, so he did that.

PeNCILz

03-25-2006, 02:43 AM

Tsukasa yearns for the days of yore! The days when Gilead still existed in the Dark Tower lore! (Leave me alone I like to rhyme...)

What exactly makes a comic "American"? Just because it is a comic made in America does not mean that it will not be good. So at least browse by the comic in a store or something...

I believe he was leaving an opening for the comic or maybe a new part to the Dark Tower Series. But if you have so many questions about why he did this you can go to his site and ask so on the message board. www.stephenking.com. I am not him so I have no idea what his intentions were and he ended the series that way for a reason adn the reason will probably surface later in the years to come.

tsukasa

03-25-2006, 02:54 AM

PeNCILz

03-25-2006, 03:00 AM

comics have become stale and lazy as of late, especially spider-man
stupid JMS, moron writer, has to go and screw with not only his history, but also suppoting characters, and the history of the fantastic four.

Eh, take that up with my father I have never read Spiderman nor have I seen the movies...

Has anyone read "The Little Sisters of Eluria"? It takes place jsut before Roland is in the desert at the beginning of volume one...

tsukasa

03-25-2006, 03:01 AM

no, and im not sure i wanna, but it, wait, how, he was in the dark tower, just before the desert?

PeNCILz

03-25-2006, 03:03 AM

No. "The Little Sisters of Eluria" is basically a prequel to The Gunslinger. It takes place in a town before he enters the desert or something... I have not read it... It is a short story in "Everythings Eventual". (I had that but my aunt stole it and sold it at her yard sale and haggled until she got five more dollars than what I paid for it.>.<)

tsukasa

03-25-2006, 03:07 AM

can u summerize it? i think he put it into the gunslinger when it came out recently as an expanded version, but was told as a flashback

PeNCILz

03-25-2006, 03:08 AM

I have not even read it yet. I am trying to get another copy of Everything is Eventual...

tsukasa

03-25-2006, 03:13 AM

oh, ok

alucard666

07-18-2006, 06:39 PM

i thought it was a great series of books, it's one of my favorites. the wizard and glass was my favorite of the seven.

alucard666

11-14-2006, 08:47 PM

anyone else looking forward to the dark tower comic book by marvel?

Vicious

11-14-2006, 08:54 PM

anyone else looking forward to the dark tower comic book by marvel?
Yep! I am. Not because of the Dark Tower series (I only read Gunslinger) but because I want to see Stephen King's ability on how he makes a comic. I hope either Jim Lee or Michael Turner gets to do the art for his comic.

alucard666

11-14-2006, 08:56 PM

Vicious

11-14-2006, 09:01 PM

here's the wiki page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_%28comics%29) on it.

from wiki:

The Dark Tower is a miniseries published by Marvel Comics. It is based on the series of the same name written by Stephen King. It will be written by Robin Furth, drawn by Jae Lee and the dialogue then scripted by Peter David. Stephen King himself is overseeing the project.

It is set to be a prequel to the series, taking up from the events after Roland's adventures in Wizard and Glass.
Oh! Yeah I just read that, heh. I guess he's not doing much on the project except giving some comments eh?
Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada has stated that Jae Lee will do no other work whatsoever while working on the Dark Tower comics
Talk about whipped.

EdwardFanGirl13

12-28-2006, 06:53 PM

I liked them, but I was dissappointed with the last one. I was so looking forward to the end being totally awesome...MAJOR LETDOWN!!!!...But the series is still great!! ;) I loved it. My fav was Wizard and Glass. I just got done reading it again...for the third time. I'm rereading the whole series. I don't usually read Stephan King...Not since seeing the movie IT...;(...I hate that movie. Anywho...The dark tower series rocks!

Gilver

01-14-2007, 06:09 PM

Duuude,

I am so glad There are other people out there who realize the free[B]king[B] greatness of this series. Has anyone read the Daughters of Eluria? Also, The ending was great, it was just the coda that kinda sucked. My favorite books had to be either the Wastelands or the Gunslinger

MsDaywalker

01-30-2007, 10:40 AM

Marvel is comeing out with a "Marvel spotlight" for dartower which comes out tomarrow and the actual 1st issue is out Feb 7th.

roxas87

01-30-2007, 02:51 PM

i only read the first one. i never found the second book.

alucard666

02-14-2007, 02:08 PM

it looks like they are planning a dark tower movie or tv series. here's the link (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=18923)

this sounds good to me, i'd rather it be a series of movies then a tv series though.