The Dark Tower Series: Part I - Of Waystation & Doors Review:
Welcome to Out from the Horrorbox! With your gunslinging host Dom Higuera!
In this episode, we take a look at the first two novels in The Dark Tower series, The Gunslinger and The Drawing of the Three!
The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. So begins Book I of Stephen King’s iconic fantasy series, The Dark Tower. Part sci-fi novel, part futuristic dystopia, part spaghetti Western, and part high fantasy, The Gunslinger tells the story of Roland Deschain, Mid-World’s last gunslinger, who is tracking an enigmatic magician known only as the man in black. Following his quarry across the demon-infested Mohaine Desert, Roland confronts a mad preacher woman and her murderous flock, holds palaver with a speaking demon, and finally befriends a young boy from our world named Jake Chambers. Jake joins Roland on his quest, but while Roland travels with his young companion Jake, the man in black travels with Roland’s soul in his pocket.
After his final confrontation with the Man in Black, an exhausted Roland awakes on the beach of the Western Sea and is immediately attacked by a shoreline monster known as a lobstrosity. Roland kills the clawed creature, but not before it bites off two of his fingers and half of one big toe. Fighting off the delirium brought on by the lobstrosity’s poison, Roland forces himself along the beach where he discovers three freestanding doorways that lead into our world. The first says The Prisoner. The second says The Woman of Shadows. The third says The Pusher. Roland’s task is to make gunslingers out of the first two individuals from the doors before the Pusher can commit a bloody killing spree.
Let's open up the Horrorbox and find out what's inside!
Time Stamps:
Before the Novel - 05:30
The Gunslinger: Resumption - 08:39
Thoughts on The Gunslinger - 13:37
Between the Novels - 30:16
The Drawing of the Three: Renewal - 32:03
Thoughts on The Drawing of the Three - 37:30
Outro - 01:04:44
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Sources: Wikipedia, stephenking.com
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