The Dark Tower by Stephen King

The Dark Tower is a series of post apocalyptic fantasy novels by the legendary author Stephen King. It describes "the Gunslinger" and his journey to the Dark Tower through a world ravaged by war, famine and pestilence.

The series has been described as Stephen Kings desire to write a speculative fiction epic and King himself has described the series as his "magnum opus".

reviews in the series

Wolves of the Calla

by Stephen King

It has been six, nearly seven, years since the last volume in the Dark Tower series and if you, like me, didn't even like the fourth volume, it has been an even longer wait. Luckily this book delivers. It's all action, it's all about the Ka-tet and it's about The Dark Tower from front to back.

Having survived the last pages of Wizard and Glass our marry Ka-tet is moving quietly along the path of the Beam. The are getting some much deserved quiet time. Except for Susannah tha...

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reviewed on Monday 24 November 2003

Wizard and Glass

by Stephen King

Pew! I've been waiting for this book for a looong time, maybe too long. I didn't hesitate one moment when I found the trade paperback, regardless of the fact D.M. Grant mailed the hardcover version to me a month ago (I just haven't received it yet).

The book starts of where DT3 ended – on Blain the Pain. Our Ka-tet makes it of Blain (what did you expect? The book ending on page sixty? – The interesting part is how).

The rest of the story is quite different from...

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reviewed on Monday 05 March 2001

The Waste Lands

by Stephen King

Do not read this review if you haven't read The Gunslinger and The Drawing of The Three. Turn off your computer and start reading. If you don't have these books run to your nearest bookstore and get them! Continuing where The Drawing of the Three ended, The Waste Lands takes us through the forest and to the city of Lud. It may seem impossible, but I actually liked most of this book better than I liked The Drawing of the Three. Some of the atmosphere from the first book is back and the tale o...

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reviewed on Sunday 15 October 2000

The Drawing of the Three

by Stephen King

Do not read this review if you have not read the The Gunslinger - it contains spoilers for it.

The Drawing of the Three (or DT2) takes off where The Gunslinger ended, with Roland lying on the beach of the western sea. The book tells the tale of Roland as he journeys along this beach and draws "the three" from our world. As you may remember the man in black mentioned these - The Prisoner, The Lady of Shadows and Death. Most of the book is about Roland and The Prisoner - Eddie ...

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reviewed on Tuesday 04 January 2000

The Gunslinger

by Stephen King

Sometimes when I've read a really bad book it's hard for me to write a review about it - I just want to leave it at "this book is bad - stay away from it" and then forget about the book as fast as possible. With Stephen King's The Gunslinger it's the other way around. A short "Go buy this book at once!" and then getting back to thinking about what a great book it is, should do it..

But this book (and the books that follow it) is so different from anything else that King has wri...

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reviewed on Monday 08 November 1999