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Monday, May 22, 2006
The Dak Tower
Haha I just want to introduce a fantasy/science fiction/horror/western series by the king of horror, Stephen King. I have always been a sucker for fantasy titles and this kind of long epic is probably my favourite reads. I feel that it is unique in the sense that it doesn't fit in the mould of the traditional fantasy novels with their usual cast of knights and wizards. Instead, its heros are gunslingers, just like in the old westerns, which gives the series its romantic feel. Another plus for Stephen's fans are the numerous references to King's other titles such as Salem's Lot which adds to the unbelivable spread of King's Dark Tower. Indeed, in a series populated with giant robotic bears, a insane locomotive, a man in black, killer cyborgs, the Crimson King, the Rose and demons galore, the reader is never able to expect what will appear next out of King's morbid imagination.
"The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed..." begins the tale. The inspiration for the line above came from Robert Browning's Poem, "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" THE GUNSLINGER In the first book, we learn of the protagonist, Roland of Gilead, the lone gunslinger left in Mid-World. His quest is simple: Find and protect the Dark Tower, which stands at the nexus of all time and place, binding together an infinite number of parallel worlds. He meets and leaves to die a young boy named Jake Chambers who came from a different world. This is the first sign of many that shows how much the Tower means to Roland. At the end of the book, he catches up with the man in black, Walter.
vagabond Coffee Talk at 4:19 AM
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