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The Dark Tower Boxed Set (Books 1-4) Mass Market Paperback – Box set, October 7, 2003

by Stephen King (Author)

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Set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace, The Dark Tower features one of Stephen King’s most powerful creations—The Gunslinger, a haunting figure who embodies the qualities of the lone hero through the ages, from ancient myth to frontier Western legend. As Roland crosses a desert of damnation in a macabre world that is a twisted image of our own, he moves ever closer to the Dark Tower of his dreams—and nightmares.

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“Gripping...compelling...King mesmerizes the reader.” —Chicago Sun-Times“An impressive work of mythic magnitude. May turn out to be Stephen King’s greatest literary achievement.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution

About the Author

Stephen King, the world's bestselling novelist, was educated at the University of Maine at Orono. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, and their children in Bangor, Maine.

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Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Berkley; Reprint edition (October 7, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0451211243
ISBN-13: 978-0451211248
Product Dimensions: 4.3 x 5.4 x 7.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
Average Customer Review: 485 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #195,331 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #986 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Horror > Ghosts
- #5364 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Epic
- #13732 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Literary

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October 11, 2016

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They didn't come in a box as the picture would have you believe. Each of the four books came individually wrapped in paper. I received the books in a timely fashion and they seemed to be in decent condition upon initial examination, but after reading one I can see they're actually fairly poor quality. The binding is already coming loose and ripping (I haven't even finished reading it through completely), and there were several ripped pages (each rip was at the top center of the page and no less than an inch long, see photos). There are also a good amount of typos and grammatical errors. They were cheap, but I guess I was expecting a little more. I'll be donating these after I finish The Wastelands and buying other copies.

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Definitely One of My Favorite King Works

November 3, 2017

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It's Steven King
He considers this his "magnum opus". I first read The Drawing of The 3 while deployed in the middle east over 25 years ago. The Gunslinger wasn't available to read at the time and afterwards life just took me in other directions. I recently purchased the entire set and I am in the process of reading them all. The writing changes a little through the series but then again Stephen King was growing up, growing as a writer, honing his craft so to speak throughout the process of writing this series.

It is obviously King, but a different side of him that melds Tolkien type Fantasy and Cormac McCarthy type Western with a King suspense and flare for for the descriptive creating environments and scenarios you can picture vividly playing out in your own mind. I would say thus far the writing reminds me of an unrefined version of The Dark Half.

If you enjoy King, his writing style and descriptive nature, you will more than likely enjoy these books. King himself admits the first couple of books were written when he was young, a little arrogant and cocky, as we all are when we are young, and the writing in these is reflective of him at that age. You can definitely see his writing style develop throughout the series and perhaps even follow his progression as a writer along the way.

I hope that at least a few of you find this review helpful, that it may help encourage you to read the series and discover a different side of one of my favorite authors.

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An Adventure series that blends many genres together.

March 29, 2016

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I have become in love with the Dark Tower series and I was already a fan of Stephen King. The interesting thing about the series is that it is difficult to put it in just one category since it is a Western, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, and Action/Adventure. It is where universes are connected to the Dark Tower and a Katet (group linked by destiny) must venture towards the dark tower and fight the forces that try to stop them on their way. The characters are intriguing and deal with their own personal dilemmas, or probably better worded as demons, in order to work together. The world in which they mainly stay in seems to have remnants of technology in it but are nothing but ghosts of the past that has been replaced with a setting that seems to be more like that from a Western. Elements of magic and the supernatural are made evident by the presence of thinnies, which are entrances or doors between worlds, and other things. I find it interesting to see how Stephen King also interweaves both the existance of magic and technology. If any of what I said interests you or your looking for something interesting and inviting, or even if you are a fan of Stephen King's other works I highly suggest that you read this.

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October 3, 2013

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Other reviewers have given plenty of descriptions of what this series is about, and its influences. King's books are always prodigious, barely-disciplined torrents of story. In the Dark Tower series all restraints are cast off, and the story unfolds in all of its richness over multiple volumes. It is suspenseful, engrossing, terrifying, and ultimately satisfying. This is not for readers in a hurry, who wish only to hurry to the conclusion. This is for readers who want to escape to another world, and explore it, and get to know its people and care for them, and to embark on a truly heroic, epic journey. King cites "The Lord of the Rings" as one of his influences, and my only complaint about "The Lord of the Rings" is that it was too short. I would have been happy with it going on for another book or two, with digressions and characters and more events. The Dark Tower goes on, and on, and on...and I like it that way :) The tension never lets up, and it is leavened with a suitable number of triumphs and humorous interludes. Roland the gunslinger, Jake the kid, Oy the billy-bumbler, Eddie the junky, and Susannah the cripple form an unlikely ka-tet from multiple worlds with the mission of saving the world, a world that has moved on and is falling apart.

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King Ties It Together

March 15, 2016

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If you want a good long summer read you might want to take this to the beach the plane or on vacation. King Calls this is magnum opus where he ties all his other works together. Perhaps putting himself into his own story is stretching things a but it's really interesting the way he ties all the threads of his works together here and the tried and true framework of the quest format is always a good bet to move a wider story along. It's not perfect- some of the characters and dialog are down right cringe worthy and painful to read (eg 'yo white candle'. you' know the sequence when you come across it- King doesn't seem to have the best handle on writing some of his female characters in The Dark Tower series.) But overall he keeps the plot going along in a mostly coherent semi logical way and if you get all 7 volumes it makes for a pleasant bit of escapism in your leisure time.

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A fascinating tail somewhere between a good western and the Lord of the Rings

March 27, 2018

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A fascinating tail somewhere between a good western and the Lord of the Rings, combined with the typical style of Stephen King.
I came across this boxed set when it was announced that The dark Tower will become a movie.
I am grateful, that I am not one of the Stephen King Fans who had to wait for years on End for the completion of this epic tale.
Currently, I am still reading it and liking it more with every page read.
A must read for all Stephen King fans !

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