by Stephen King
The last gunslinger pursues a mysterious man in black across the desert in a world that has “moved on” from our own but has retained enough vestiges to make it clear that there is some connection between this fantastical Western landscape and the reality that we know.
But don’t expect answers here.
This first volume in Stephen King’s magnum opus, which was decades in the making, is a masterful tease for most of its length.
Its origin as a series of short stories published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction is apparent in the book’s episodic structure.
There are some incredibly tense and involving scenes along the way, most notably the killings in a small desert town and a subterranean face off with mutants, but King fumbles the ending in a big way with a disappointing info dump that really didn’t make me want to read further.
But read on I shall for I have heard that the story only improves.
I was impressed that King, whose folksy, grounded prose peppered with brand names and pop culture references can be so effortlessly involving, was also capable of such impressive world-building and lyrical descriptions.
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| "Shooter" (Russian) |
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| "Black" (German) |
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| "The Gunslinger" (French) |
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| "Black Tower" (Finnish) |
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| "Gunslinger" (Japanese) |
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| "Dark Tower" (Turkish) |
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| "Devil's Weed" (Spanish) |
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| "The Gunman" (Hebrew) |
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| "The Dark Tower: The First Book" (Lithuanian) |
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| "Roland" (Polish) |
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| "The Last Knight" (Italian) |
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| "The Archer" (Bulgarian) |
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| "The Gunman" (Portuguese) |
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| "The Warrior" (Hungarian) |
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| "The Gunman" (Thai) |
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| "Last Gunman" (Chinese) |
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| "Gunslinger" (Romanian) |
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| "Shooter" (Georgian) |
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| "Revolver" (Serbian) |
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| "The Gunslinger" (Indonesian) |
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| "The Revolver Man" (Swedish) |
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