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5 Nov 14th, 2000  (Jan 9th, 2001)

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Imaginative genius in a compelling and ingenius series

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He's only written 4 out of (possibly) 7 .

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The Dark Tower series was started by Stephen King some twenty years ago, with the first book, The Gunslinger published in 1982. The most recent addition to the series, The Wizard and the Glass, which personally I think is one of the finest SK books ever written. Together the series is more epic than even The Stand and show a fine writer at his most creative, compelling and entertaining.

The story is based on a poem by Robert Browning entitled 'Childe Roland from the Dark Tower came', and it is Roland, the gunslinger, whom is the main character in this series. An incredibly simplified description of the plot is that Roland and subsequently his companions that he picks up on the way, are to follow some force called the Beam to the Dark Tower.

It would spoil one and/or more of the books to go into any more detail and I can't even begin to ruin the ending as even SK doesn't know what it is yet... However I can say that whilst the book is set in another world there is considerable interaction with our world and also with The Stand. Randall Flagg emerges in the fourth book.

I advise all fans of SK to read this series if they haven't already and also anybody who likes a compelling read to try these they are quite simply mesmerising stuff...outstanding
 

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