The Gunslinger, a man of few words, journeys across the desert following the Man in Black and heading for the Tower. 

 

While I’ve read The Gunslinger before I’ve never made it any further in The Dark Tower series. I think that’s because while I love King’s novels for their epic world building and the fantasy novels I love have a similar feel, the world of The Gunslinger feels very shallow. 

 

There’s little sense of what it all means. I feel like I can follow it a bit now because so much if the Crimson King and the Tower seep through into the main novels. But, The Gunslinger on its own is quite a passive book with little sense of what the questions are never mind the depth of the answers. 

 

I did find Roland more intriguing this time around, and on this King back catalogue read through I’m planning to give the sequels in this series a go too.