So yeah, I'm a huge Stephen King fan. I'm just gonna ask- Anyone else? Before I start ranting about how awesome the Dark tower series is or something...

I really like his non-horror writing, ie Hearts in Atlantis, Four Seasons.

I like a lot of his stuff too. I agree with nightbird.

Posted by Drie So yeah, I'm a huge Stephen King fan. I'm just gonna ask- Anyone else? Before I start ranting about how awesome the Dark tower series is or something...

Um, fuck yeah.

I'm like this raving lunatic when it comes to the Dark Tower Series. Ten more days and the last book comes out.

I remember when the Gunslinger came out in trade paperback in '89, but I couldn't get into it. But about three years later when I was at a friend's house, he had a mass market edition laying around and I picked it up again. I spent the night chain smoking until 4 in the morning until I finished it.

Although I have to say when The Waste Lands came out, I checked it out from the public library and happily read it...until the last page when it just ended right in the middle of the climax. So I threw it against the wall and waited for, what was it, two, three years for book 4?

Oh well, I can't wait for Book 7.

my friend brian used to talk my ear off at work all day long about the dark tower series, nonstop. i need to pick up those books i guess. i've read a lot of stephen king but for some reason i've always avoided those.

that just reminded me that brian still has all my lovecraft books. damn.


edit: wtf.. spelling errors galore.

Yeah, can you believe that the whole sixth book happened, and you STILL don't know about susannah and the baby? wow. I cannot wait until the next one...but I don't see how he can possibly wrap it up in one more. I think it's impossible. Can't wait to see tho.

Yeah, I don't see how it's all going to get wrapped up either. I just hope it's not some cop out ending: "Everyone shows up at the Dark Tower, has tea and crumpets with the Crimson King (he's not such a bad guy after all!), they live happily ever after. The End."

and in case anyone is interrested, here's a link for the prologue to Book 7, The Dark Tower

http://www.stephenking.com/pages/works/Dark_Tower_VII/prologue.php

It's almost like he didn't write it...

It feels different.

Posted by Drie Yeah, can you believe that the whole sixth book happened, and you STILL don't know about susannah and the baby? wow. I cannot wait until the next one...but I don't see how he can possibly wrap it up in one more. I think it's impossible. Can't wait to see tho.

I am so caught up in this series also. Read most of his work...I am such a stephen king dork.
hi guys i didn't know you had a whole private board about books *falls off tree*
well its nice to knw!
I just read the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. Pretty good book!

Um about the dark tower series..have you guys read all the other books outside of the series but that it still pertains to it...like for example INSOMNIAC or Hearts in Atlantis?
THE LOW MEN AHHHHHHHHH!!!!

That's Insomnia not "Insomniac" but whatever.

Yeah, don't forget The Talisman and Black House.

I believe that if you look at a newly printed Stephen King (or shit, maybe it's just the D.T. books) at the front where it lists his other books, the books relating to the D.T. are bold faced or have a star next to them or something that shows they're related to the series.

Dont forget the really obscure referances like in "The Ten o'clock People" and stuff. Everything goes back to the tower...

ahhhhh, it comes out tomorrrroooooow

Im three quarters through the last one...oh man. MUST...Put...down...book.

Posted by Drie Im three quarters through the last one...oh man. MUST...Put...down...book.

You got it?

I just started reading it today. I'm only about 30 pages into it...

Is it good? I mean, where you're at in it?

I'm almost done now...Oh boy, it just fucks with your head...

edit: ok, im done. WOW.

Oh fuck, the Dark Tower series...

I told myself I couldn't die until I finished the damn thing, and I haven't finished it. That suicide note is just going to have to wait.

I've always loved the King, I think it's hereditary from my aunt, who has all the damn books.

I favor the DT series (haven't gotten to 6 and 7 yet!) , and the two big books of his above all: The Stand and It.

Hello, by the way.

~D

So what'd everyone think of Book 7? I liked it a lot, but a few things pissed me of...

Spoilers...















Flagg's death. After everything this guy has done, and being set up as Roland's arch nemesis, I think the thing I was looking forward to most in book 7 was the eventual Roland-Flagg showdown. And not only didn;t we get it, but Flagg goes out like an insignificant nothing!

The invalidation of Insomnia and other peripheral DT books.

The Showdown with the Crimson King. The incredibly evil looking MF in my avatar can do nothing but throw sneetches and scream "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!"?

Despite all that, though, I really did like it.

Yeah, Seriously. And the whole "artist with the eraser" thing totally seemed like a cop-out. And no way would susannah have left roland like that.

Posted by Drie Yeah, Seriously. And the whole "artist with the eraser" thing totally seemed like a cop-out. And no way would susannah have left roland like that.

The picture of Roland with his head in his hands in front of the door that Susannah has just gone through is so sad. His last Ka-Tet member has just left him and he's all alone.

Posted by ednothing That's Insomnia not "Insomniac" but whatever. Yeah, don't forget The Talisman and Black House. I believe that if you look at a newly printed Stephen King (or shit, maybe it's just the D.T. books) at the front where it lists his other books, the books relating to the D.T. are bold faced or have a star next to them or something that shows they're related to the series.

The Talisman, My favorite King book..... I am a King freak...

I got started on it when I was a kid, my grandmother read me Four Past Midnight. I will never forget The Library Policeman.