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    <body><![CDATA[Dear Stephen King,<br/><br/>I'd like to apologize for the times that I've made fun of you in any way, shape or form, including the kid in my English 2 class sophomore year who would not stop raving about you as if you were the only person to ever write a book. <br/><br/>It's not that I think tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18180469">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have heard a lot of hype about this book and a lot of my friends are really into it. I saw the paperback cheap at a used book store and decided to pick up the first two in the series. I am probably never going to touch the second book.<br/><br/>I have never been a fan of Stephen King, I don't re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1426367">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some Spoilers...<br/><br/>I’ve been craving an imaginative, mature, epic fantasy lately. Something without elves, dwarves, and the host of other post-Tolkien fantasy cliché. I’ve been craving something that is well-written, and not groan inducing, and something that is genrebusting in nature....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11304044">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[To say this book was a watershed for me is an understatement. It literally changed the way I read, how I read, and I probably wouldn't write at all if not for reading it. <br/><br/><em>The Gunslinger</em> is the first in the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Tale-Finally-Complete%3F-Dark-Tower/lm/18QX55ZQC5PHT/ref=cm_lmt_srch_f_1_rsrsrs0">Dark Tower</a> series, which not only consists of the seven books in the series but al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15721461">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this was the first Stephen King book I ever read, and I read it about 6 months ago.  King wrote the intro to one of the volumes of Neil Gaiman's nothing-short-of-epickly-awesome <em>Sandman</em> series, and I always wondered why.  That probably sounds stupid to avid King fans.  I just always assumed he was a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7610516">more...</a>]]></body>
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      <review id="3287858">
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    <body><![CDATA[Well... the jury's still out on this one. But my overall impression was &quot;Uh....&quot;<br/>I decided to read this book because one of the executive producers of Lost (which I love) loved this series. And I tend to like the fantasy quest type thing... so I had high expectations for Stephen King'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3287858">more...</a>]]></body>
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      <review id="35761195">
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    <body><![CDATA[I have a confession to make - this is the first time I have read a Steven King novel.  Ever.  Yes, I know he is reputed to be an excellent writer, but I don’t do horror.  Period.  But, I was talked into trying out this series and after reading the afterward (I tend to do things backwards), I was i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35761195">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have wanted to start this series for years now.  The premise of a lone western gunslinger trekking a strange fantasy world in search of a dark tower has always been an intriguing one.  King talks in his forward of a character reminiscent of Clint Eastwood in Sergio Leone's &quot;The Man With No Na...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5615014">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here's the thing...<br/><br/>The Dark Tower is a culmination, a grand conjunction of Stephen King's literary world. It is his masterpiece. Most importantly, though it reminds us many times throughout that King is a horror writer at heart, these books are a work of modern literature.<br/><br/>Kin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2850158">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked &quot;The Gunslinger&quot; well enough to read straight through in a couple of days.  However, it really seemed too hard to be something, but I couldn't figure out what.  I'm sure it's meant to be enigmatic, but a good enigma should never be pointed out.  There were several points in the nov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37165197">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't even want to write a review of this series until I've at least read book 2, but I will do something that I've never done before: review the Foreword.<br/><br/>Stephen King is revisiting a series that was the spark of his 19 year old imagination and in the decades since, he has grown both a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74349145">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is for all the books in Stephen King's The Dark Tower. I believe it was an amazing body of work, and it has everything a dark fanasty had to offer, from awesome gun fights, standoffs, horrible and scary creatures, psychos with deadly intent, dead babies jokes, Kung Fu fighting, and a while not ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51139556">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am not a fan of Stephen King's writing (though I am a fan of the man), so I have purposefully stayed away from The Dark Tower series.<br/><br/>King's books always seem to follow a simple pattern with me. <br/><br/>The first third of the book I find myself excited, joyfully surfing the book on ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37527710">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I finished this book over a weekend...so for what that's worth.  For what it is, it’s great, lots of fun, and touching on large, exciting themes.  It’s the kind of story that gets my blood pumping.  I was captivated for long stretches and I’d look up and find that three hours and a hundred pag...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47500506">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A decidedly odd epic, but one that drew me in quickly and completely.  King's reputation as a writer -- not a storyteller -- is a tad mixed, but I was impressed by his deft stylistic touch here.  His writing is neither terse nor flowery, his diction is varied and challenging but not distracting, and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38216109">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In order to really dissect my reaction to The Gunslinger, or really to any Stephen King book, I find it useful to distinguish a writer from a storyteller.  The former can be the latter and the latter the former, but these two aspects of authorship often appear separately in that much maligned catego...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42249295">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am glad that I have a new found appreciation for Stephen King.  When I was younger, I used to love to scare myself silly with his novels.  In my early 20's, after becoming a mother, I lost the desire (and constitution) to read horror and instead learned to love fantasy and scifi.  <br/><br/>The ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24136937">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This reviews the REVISED AND EXPANDED edition of the first book. New readers should be careful to see if they are reading impressions of one or the other, as they are quite different.<br/><br/>Wow, does the revised edition ever read smoother. It took King decades to write this whole series, so it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18709019">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this was a pretty decent book. i didnt love it as much as some people did, but it was good. the biggest hitches that i noticed were the ones that King himself addressed. it was a book written when he was young, and he himself said that it was a little pretentious and ambiguous. and after reading it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13091759">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Let me say something first. There's really no point in reading any Stephen King story if you don't read &quot;The Dark Tower&quot; series first. I'm very serious about this. Every short story, every sentence in one of his huge novels will resonate so much more if you read these novels outright. Beca...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12740963">more...</a>]]></body>
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