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The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: George Guidall
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Stephen King's epic fantasy series, The Dark Tower, is being made into a major movie starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey. Due in cinemas February 17, 2017 USA.

In this first novel in his epic fantasy masterpiece, Stephen King introduces listeners to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner, on a spellbinding journey into good and evil, in a desolate world which frighteningly echoes our own.

In his first step towards the powerful and mysterious Dark Tower, Roland encounters an alluring woman named Alice, begins a friendship with Jake, a kid from New York, and faces an agonising choice between damnation and salvation as he pursues the Man in Black.

Both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, The Gunslinger leaves listeners eagerly awaiting the next chapter.

And the Tower is closer....

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you must get this book

I was gripped by the dark tower the gunslinger listened to it in 2 days.Very well narrated have already bought the next three books in the series.CANT WAIT

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Taster for the series

I am a massive King fan and although this does feel like a prologue, his brilliant story and plot weaving is, as usual, faultless. The climax is a wonderful mix of cliffhanger and existential poetry.

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The story begins....

Roland is following a man dressed in black. This stranger is always just out of reach, passing through the desolate towns before him. We appear to be in some sort of apocolyptic future. Roland meets a young boy Jake, and regales him with tales of his youth - how he got here and his relationship with the dark man. Will Roland and his nemesis ever meet?

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Not really for me i guess. It feels like the author was on Coke when he wrote this and not in a good way, in a self absorbed and boring way.

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loved it :)

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I wish I read it years ago like I told to. into the next!

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Brilliant taster of what's to come!

Different to any other King over read. Excellent in it's own way. Straight into the second book now. Narrator was great!

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I think it was great but not sure!

amazingly well written story about I'm not exactly sure what. but that's awesome in itself. I'll read the next one and see if anything else interesting eventuates!

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Magnificent

I read the book a long time ago, and loved it. This performance makes it so much better! It gives it the gravitas it deserves.

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hard to follow

Very hard to follow story line but will hopefully worth it for next book

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I tried...

I heard this book series is great, however the first book is one you just "need to get through" as it's the world builder, rather than a gripping story.

I listen to audible books in the car for my drives to and from work (it's a long commute) and I'd always zone out of this book.

I restarted chapters a few times, but the narrators voice is as dry as the book. My apologies to George Guidall, the narrator, as I've listened to many a book with similar type narration, however for a dry, world-building book it needed a more captivating narrator IMO. I kept having to go back and re-listen, I couldn't tell you a single thing about the book or what happened in it and I listened to it for 11 hours or however long the book is on audible.

I've been recommended the series by numerous people, but I really struggled with this book. I don't know why I committed to listening to the whole thing TBH, I still want to explore the series so this might be one to physically read.

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