The conclusion to Stephen King's Dark Tower series to be published within the next 17 months!!!!

[ViperXX]

Story

Yeah baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Been waiting a long time!

 

[ShotgunSteven]

I got an e-mail from Amazon.Com talking about this a few weeks ago. They also said that they will be printing new hardcover editions of the first books before the finale is published.

EDIT: Wow, this was your 666th post. <Neo>Whoa.</Neo>

 

[LeeTJ]

17 MONTHS?? OMFG, I guess i've already waited like 7 yrs for this books, so another year and a half isn't too bad, but sh!t. he sure is taking his time with this one.

 

[ViperXX]

666 and Stephen King go good together, ShotgunSteve
thanks for pointing that out.

EDIT: Wow, this was your 666th post. <Neo>Whoa.</Neo>

There is no spoon.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve
I got an e-mail from Amazon.Com talking about this a few weeks ago. They also said that they will be printing new hardcover editions of the first books before the finale is published.

EDIT: Wow, this was your 666th post. <Neo>Whoa.</Neo>

They've printed about a million "sets" of the books but they never continue with the same style. I've got the first 4 in various paperback forms, but once the series is finished then I'll go for the full hard cover set.

 

[Looney]

I've tried reading the first book like 3 times... but i never could read more than halfway through the book before i got so bored with it.

 

[loup garou]

Man, when I read this, I was afraid that he had cut the series down from 7 books to 5!!! But then I read this:

Wolves of the Calla will be out in November, Song of Susannah in summer 2004 and The Dark Tower in November 2004.

AWESOME!!!

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
I've tried reading the first book like 3 times... but i never could read more than halfway through the book before i got so bored with it.

Funny, I have the same problem with the Fellowship of the Ring.

 

[Xionide]

Steven l<ing books are just one long run on sentence, and then it repeats itself.

-Xionide

 

[Gryphon]

you mean the series is still not over. i read the second one, the drawing of three i think it was, around 5 years ago, and i thought it was quite good. i never could get my hands on any of the other. i could get any of them now but i seem to have grown out of stephen king. he seems to get monotonous after a while. i tried reading a couple of his books just recently (bad of bones and dark house) but i thought they both weren't all that good.

 

[Syran]

I really enjoyed the first one.

Couldn't get into the drawing of the three, and dropped the series.

I might try reading them again soon; as I really enjoyed the gunslinger.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: Gryphon
you mean the series is still not over. i read the second one, the drawing of three i think it was, around 5 years ago, and i thought it was quite good. i never could get my hands on any of the other. i could get any of them now but i seem to have grown out of stephen king. he seems to get monotonous after a while. i tried reading a couple of his books just recently (bad of bones and dark house) but i thought they both weren't all that good.

Yeah, Dark House is pretty bad. I don't like the way he's starting to tie together all his "worlds." However, I find that the Tower series are far from the monotony of his more recent novels...I'd recommend giving them another shot, they really are wonderful books!

 

[Gujski]

The Waste Lands is one of my all time favorite novels, with a cliffhanger that Wizard and Glass satisfied more than adaquately I thought. I think it is a nice gesture to release the last three in 17 months after making us wait over 6 years for part 5!!!

btw Gryphon...6 posts in 2 years? Stop being such a nef!!

 

[Nitemare]

Bout friggin time...great series but I don't remember it because it has been so long. I will have to go back and read the first couple.

 

[ATLien247]

The publisher has a mailing list that will notify you when these books become available, FWIW...

 

[TwilightZone77]

Excellent; I can't wait. The first two, The Gunslinger and The Drawing of the Three were quite good, but not in the greatness of the others. It was kind of hit and miss, some of it was very good and some wasn't as good. Most of the Wastelands and all of Wizard and Glass is very, very good though. Wizard and Glass reads quite well as a standalone, so even if you couldn't get into the others as much you might try this. Also, King has rewritten the Gunslinger (story) so that the new Gunslinger will be released when the new hardcover series comes out. It's supposed to flow better with the rest of the books and be more simplified, so if you couldn't get into it before (I found it kind of difficult to get into at first), you might retry the series when this comes out. I wish King would, after the series is finished, write some tales about what happened before what happened in the Gunslinger. Won't happen, but it'd be cool.

 

[CanOWorms]

What's this series about? Seems really popular

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: CanOWorms
What's this series about? Seems really popular

Um...it's sort of a Western/parallel dimensions/mutant/fantasy/horror/love story sort of tale.

 

[WhiteKnight77]

I don't recall King writing a book called Dark House, but he did cowrite Black House with Peter Straub with whom he also cowrote The Talisman with (and starts the whole Gunslinger/Dark Tower series). I noticed about a 3rd of the way thru Black House that the Dark Tower series was joining the story. Gorg just seemed to go with the Beams just to well when I first read that name.

 

[MomAndSkoorbaby]

Wowers....I read that series so long ago I don't even remember what it was about anymore!

 

[Hooligan]

finally,

yeah, i've been wondering when he was going to finish this series. i've been waiting for the next book of george RR martin's as well.

-ben

 

This is excellent news.

 

[Balthazar]

Excellent series, I was a little worrie dhe wouldnt finish it! I guess it's better late than never huh?

Such a shame about his vision....life can be cruel....then again, he's one of the most well-known authors of our time, and very versatile, so I guess life can't be all bad

 

[CurtisEbear]

[/quote]Originally posted by: werk Yeah, Dark House is pretty bad. I don't like the way he's starting to tie together all his "worlds." However, I find that the Tower series are far from the monotony of his more recent novels...I'd recommend giving them another shot, they really are wonderful books! [/quote]


personally I kind of like the way he ties his books together w/ the dark tower theme. BTW, he isn't just starting to do it, if you read a lot of his books (many quite old) you'll see that there are numerous references to the Dark Tower series.

I can't wait for the next books in the series. I read the first 4 about 3 years ago and I've been waiting since.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
I've tried reading the first book like 3 times... but i never could read more than halfway through the book before i got so bored with it.

Well...from that article:

But he says The Gunslinger, which started it all, bears the scars of a young "writing-seminar survivor. ... I tried too hard to say something important and to sound smart."

In the revised edition, he changed or deleted words on nearly every page, added three scenes, about 35 pages' worth, and cut false starts that went nowhere in the books that followed.

He says he wanted to make the writing "smoother" and eliminated "what seemed like thousands of unnecessary adverbs" and other "hollow blather."


Soo...maybe that will help.

I am *so* looking forward to these new books.

And I'm hopeful a movie series will be made on them, provided they stick very close to the books (as did Shawshank - well, a few liberties taken...only had one warden in the movie - and The Stand).