The gunslinger

The Gunslinger

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Paperback, 238 pages

English language

Published March 14, 2003 by New English Library.

ISBN:
978-0-340-82975-2
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OCLC Number:
956973931

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3 stars (6 reviews)

Join the quest for the elusive Dark Tower

THE GUNSLINGER

This newly revised and expanded edition of The Gunslinger; for which Stephen King has written a special introduction and foreword, is the mesmerising first book in his spectacular, epic Dark Tower series.

In The Gunslinger, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner, on a spellbinding journey into good and evil, in a desolate world which frighteningly echoes our own.

In his first step towards the powerful and mysterious Dark Tower, Roland encounters an alluring woman named Alice, begins a friendship with Jake, a kid from New York, and faces an agonising choice between damnation and salvation as he pursues the Man in Black.

Both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, The Gunslinger leaves readers eagerly awaiting the next chapter.

And The Tower is closer. …

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reviewed The Dark Tower by Stephen King (The Dark Tower, 1)

I don't get why people like this

2 stars

People say this is a good book and series but I can't agree to that. It's just chaotic and doesn't make any sense, the writing seems overly dramatic and "flowery", meaning he describes things so weird, with weird details and weird metaphors. I couldn't even read it to the end and stopped at like 80 or 90%. I have no interest in reading the other novels in the series, it's just not my type of writing I guess. I never liked any Stephen King books until this one and I read a bunch now. It's not getting any better, maybe I should just give up on trying to like his writing.

reviewed The gunslinger by Stephen King (The dark tower -- 1)

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3 stars

El comienzo es flojo, con un exceso de adjetivos que parecían sacados al azar de un diccionario sólo para aparentar gran conocimiento de vocabulario.

Afortunadamente le tomó mucho tiempo para escribir este libro, por lo que se nota la madurez de King en la forma como va evolucionando su estilo de relato.

Hay varios conceptos interesantes que me gustaría que se hubieran desarrollado mejor, pero bueh..

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Subjects

  • Fantasy
  • Science Fiction