![]() ![]() ![]() Roland's fated three, plucked from different "whens" of modern New York, are by now mystically proven gunslingers themselves. In the latest, Wolves of the Calla, Roland and his three companions come to the aid of a Wild West village which is plagued by the "Wolves" - possibly soldiers or robots - who descend on the village once a generation, steal half the children then return them "roont", doomed to giantism, idiocy and agonising death. The next episodes - The Drawing Of The Three The Waste Lands Wizard and Glass - are more conventionally Stephen King in style and girth, and move gropingly, almost blindly, through picaresque adventure towards a sense of what Roland's quest may mean. ![]() ![]() The stark, compelling Gunslinger pits Roland against a mysterious "man in black", who demands that our hero betrays a boy-child he loves, and in return tells him his fortune in Tarot cards. New readers are advised to start at the beginning, but to recap, briefly, this extended dark fantasy features Roland Deschain, sixgun-toting knight errant in an apocalyptic, Sergio Leone desert world, and his quest to reach the threatened Dark Tower, which is some kind of linchpin holding reality together. ![]()
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