(1989) The Gunslinger

This is a full review and explanation of The Gunslinger as well as The Dark Tower series.

Roland meets one survivor, an old man with a talking pet raven, and sits to eat with him before resuming the chase. During the meal Roland, who it turns out is a Gunslinger from Gillead, hears of what happened when Walter had stopped to rest there earlier.

I must use this time to alert you to the strange lack of plot of this book. It is simply a book in which one man follows another, throughout which flash backs and contemplation's are our only distraction from the endless and parched desert of the gunslinger's world.

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The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

The Gunslinger is a novel by American author Stephen King and is the first volume in the Dark Tower series, which King considers his magnum opus. Initially a fix-up novel that strung together five short stories published between 1978 and 1981, it was first published in book form in 1982. King substantially revised the novel in 2003, which is the version in print today. The story centers upon Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger, who has been chasing after his adversary, "the man in black", for many years. The novel follows Roland's trek through a vast desert and beyond in search of the man in black. Roland meets several people along his journey, including a boy named Jake Chambers who travels with him part of the way.

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