Title: The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
Author: Stephen King
Publisher: New American Library
Year: 1982
216 pages
From the Back: This heroic fantasy is set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace that is a dark mirror of our own. A spellbinding tale of good versus evil, it features one of Stephen King's most powerful creations - the Gunslinger, a haunting figure who embodies the qualities of the lone hero through the ages from ancient myth to frontier western legend. His pursuit of The Man in Black, his liaison with the sexually ravenous Alice, his friendship with the kid from Earth called Jake, are part of a drama that is both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, an alchemy of storytelling sorcery.
Personal Thoughts: I have heard a lot of great things about the Dark Tower Series by Stephen King so I was excited to get started on it. I will say that this was a very strange book, which I suppose isn't surprising coming out of King's mind. The Gunslinger is by far the shortest book of the series and it if weren't for the fact that I knew several other books followed this one, I'd have been quite confused as to where the story was going. So with this one, I'm just going to say that I made it through and remain excited to continue with the rest of the series, even though the size of the other books are quite daunting!
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