It gets murky when you start to wonder if you need to include some of the more connected stories (warning: here be spoilers!), like Hearts in Atlantis or Black House. The Wind Through the Keyhole, positions itself in the foreword as The Dark Tower 4.5, so that is pretty straightforward. (This edition also includes the revised version of The Gunslinger, which lead to question if you should read both … but more on that later). But then there is the 1998 short story The Little Sisters of Eluria, which sits before The Gunslinger in the 2009 edition published by Grant. In the narrowest reading, The Dark Tower is a series of seven novels. But, unlike the Harry Potter series, there is some ambiguity as to what “read all Dark Tower books back to back” actually means. So putting it on my list of 100 things to do was, well, duh. Re-reading the series has been on my to-do list ever since I read the last line of the last book. I even took an unwieldy hardcover of the final book with me on a trip to Barcelona.
Before the fifth novel came out, I made sure I had read the rest of the series, and read the remaining three books as soon as they came out. He recovered and wrote the conclusion to his Magnum Opus. One June nineteen, in the year of nineteen and ninety-nine, The Writer got hit by a car. Wizard and Glass has some framing story that does not really work without what came before, but like The Wind Through the Keyhole in a lesser degree, the largest chunk is a gripping tale that can stand on its own. I read it anyway, and due to its tale-within-a-tale nature, I liked it a lot. She returned with (the Dutch translation of) Wizard and Glass, at that moment the most recently published episode in an ongoing series of which I had only read and could vaguely recall the first part. Some years later, I asked my mother to pick up any thickish Stephen King novel from the library, in order to have something to read after my summer job. Once upon a bye, I must have been 13 or so, I read the Dutch translation of The Gunslinger, and wrote a book report about it. TL DR: I re-read Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series. Posted Decem& filed under 100 things, 40 books before 40, First Lines.
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