A New Dark Tower Book

Orlion · Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 3:21 pm Post subject:

Maybe he's found a way to negate everything that's happened in the previous DT books Laughing

I think he should be fine... just so long as it's not a prequel... I think we have plenty of info on Roland's backstory, thank you very much!

Edited: Forgot the italicized 'not.' Boy, did that change the meaning of what I wanted to say! Razz

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Cail · Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 4:00 pm Post subject:

I'm not excited about this one bit.

Yes, I think he's writing better now than he has in a while, but I also think he boned up the DT series after his accident. A further boning won't help.
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wayfriend · Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 5:54 pm Post subject:

Interesting. I didn't think of redemption as a possible motive. It might be he thinks he can fix it.
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Avatar · Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 6:04 pm Post subject:

Sheesh, whatever else, I hope he doesn't try and fix it.

I haven't enjoyed a lot of his more recent books, (since Desperation maybe), but I did enjoy Cell a lot, and Cail says Duma Key is very good too.

I'll read it, but I hope like hell it's not a sequel or a parallel world or something. Set in that world, fine. And personally, I'm fine with prequels too. Can't get enough of Roland's backstory.

But not a sequel.

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Blackhawk · Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:07 pm Post subject:

Hey...if he breaks the loop..which is exactly what the Dark tower Series ended as i guess I will be getting what i wanted. could this book be an expansion on so much of Rolands unexplained past? or something Roland Does right so he doesnt have to continue the loop and can RIP. that i could live with.

Cail is right though... Kings Accident really changed and IMO ruined the DT series... im not saying i wish i never read from Wolves of the Calla on but I wish it had been different.
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lucimay · Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:23 pm Post subject:

well... am i the only one who thinks this might be a good thing?

honestly, DT ended (and there were PLENTY of clues this was how
it would end) the only way it could have (imo) but it was, at the same
time, somewhat unsatisfying.

it's just like life. so...say you're going along in your life thinking this is
the only one you've got and that death ends it and there's something else
afterward (or not.) you conduct yourself accordingly.
but say, after a few years of this life stuff you come to believe that
maybe it's not all as simple as that. maybe you come to believe that
you're riding around in a mortal vehicle for a purpose and it's possible
that if you don't successfully achieve your purpose, you may have to
conTINue riding around in mortal vehicles until you DO complete your
mortal mission so to speak.
what then.

to me, it (life) becomes sort of like that old autobiography poem

Warmark · Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 1:10 am Post subject:

Thats one of the worst book titles i have ever heard.
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Hyperception · Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 3:29 pm Post subject:

Shorthand: "Go then, there are other worlds than this"
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dANdeLION · Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 3:35 am Post subject:

Orlion · Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 4:10 am Post subject:

dANdeLION · Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 2:09 pm Post subject:

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Cagliostro · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 1:03 pm Post subject:

You folks are slagging on Shardik? Any of you read the Richard Adams book that SK is alluding to?
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Avatar · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 3:23 pm Post subject:

I have. Didn't think it was that great, although it's probably worth a re-read. Prefered Maia in fact. (And that's probably saying something. Laughing

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Endymion9 · Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 2:45 am Post subject:

Concerning the comments on Roland's backstory, have any of you been reading the Peter David graphic novels? I've enjoyed the representations of what the city of Gunslingers was like before the fall and of what actually happened at Jericho Hill.

But it seems that the next set will jump to Roland chasing Walter that we saw at the beginning of The Gunslingers. The question I always wanted to answer was what happens to John Farson?
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earthbrah · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 3:32 pm Post subject:

Cail wrote:

lucimay · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 9:10 am Post subject:

Avatar · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 4:53 am Post subject:

I don't care about cutting him slack. But I will read any other DT books he writes. Laughing

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Horrim Carabal · Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 11:19 pm Post subject: