![]() The reader discovers Roland’s upbringing, how he survives the Jedi-like training to become a gunslinger, and how his world is before all hell tears it down. Throughout the series, but particularly in the third book, Wizard and Glass, Stephen King provides the back story of Roland Deschain. If it were me, I’d be hightailing to this tower and hopping into a world that actually had dependable plumbing and Wi-Fi. In this setting, Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger (basically a cowboy Jedi with guns instead of a lightsaber), is on a quest to find The Dark Tower to find answers or solutions for his world. ![]() ![]() Many animals and humans alike have evolved into grotesque beings of primal savagery. ![]() Technological advances of the past are useless and forgotten. The Dark Tower series is a world where many of the settings have the same names and similar history to the present-day United States – specifically The West – but either through an alternate timeline or perhaps a future timeline, this world is dusty, rusted, tired, and dying, or “moving on” (crawling into that good night). This seemingly odd combination became an engaging and elaborate eight-part series that finally came to its conclusion in 2012 (or did it?). ![]() Stephen King began writing in the horror genre, but from the 1980’s and moving forward, he tried his typewriter in both the fantasy and western genres. For over 30 years, Stephen King incorporated all of his novels into one series titled The Dark Tower (“one series to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them”). ![]()
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