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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a big fan of The Dark Tower, and I was a mixture of excited and apprehensive when I heard about its comic book adaptation. I thought that they were going to be prequels or something like that, but they turned out to be Wizard and Glass retold (which happens to be my favorite of the series.) <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4750535">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just to clear things up, this is NOT the first book in the dark tower series.  This is a comic of Roland's early years.  The story is told in book four of The Dark Tower series, Wizard and Glass.  The comic follows Roland from training and his gaining his majority and guns through his first lesson i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4909121">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you haven't yet read the Dark Tower series (or finished the series) and plan to, <strong>don't read this book!</strong>  The writers and artists have crammed an impressive number of spoilers into this brief volume, and have also bulldozed levels of nuance which make the Dark Tower series such a good read.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4997459">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed the Dark Tower series, so I looked forward to getting back to some places and characters I missed through the graphic novels. I might read the next one, to give them a second chance, but I'm not chomping at the bit, that's for sure. <br/><br/>The writing in The Gunslinger Born is dull--a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39311563">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nagging my thoughts while reading this was whether or not it would work for an audience new to the Dark Tower universe and whether all the people I had recommended it to would &quot;get it&quot; with the same gusto I did.  Sure, it introduces Roland, his ka-tet and their unique world fairly effectiv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9458817">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Simultaneous fulfilling and disappointing. One of those maddeningly annoying things that gets the notes but not the music. The fact is King's Dark Tower patois sounds completely stupid coming from anyone other then King. The first chapters reads like bad fan fiction, and though it eventually lays of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15468534">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first Stephen King book I've ever read. I've always been skeptical of King's books and even the movies that have arisen from his books, but was told I should read this graphic novel and decided to take a chance. <br/><br/>The Gunslinger Born is a continuation of King's seven part Dark To...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50592424">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've always liked Stephen King's <em>Dark Tower</em> series - <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43615.The_Gunslinger_Dark_Tower_1_" title="The Gunslinger (Dark Tower 1) by Stephen King">The Gunslinger</a> was the first King story I ever read, and is probably still my favorite book of his - so I was somewhat biased in favor of this book going into it. That said, it was even better than I had expected it to be.<br/><br/>For those who...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65242147">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>I had held off on reading this series for a while because I wasn't too sure about the translation from novel to comic when dealing with such a sweeping narrative. Overall I would say that I wasn't too disappointed. I have some minor issues with the structure of the story and the layout of the book h...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47824839">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was a bit intrigued to find that the graphic novels based on Stephen King's Dark Tower series did not begin with the iconic, &quot;The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.&quot; I had always imagined this would also be how the graphic novels began.  I had it all pictur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54501694">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[J'avais l'intention d'attendre la parution française initialement prévue aux Editions Soleil pour la fin du premier semestre 2007. La fin de l'année approchant, et le projet semblant être tombé aux oubliettes, je me suis décidée à faire l'acquisition de cette splendide version reliée des se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61643130">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to say that the captions bothered me a bit. As the narrator was addressing the reader, he spoke in too familiar a voice. As I read the Dark Tower series, I feel it's almost an epic fable, but addressed in such a way makes it too personal and &quot;right now&quot;. I want to feel like I am rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67682008">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had no idea King &amp; Marvel were in the process of making the Dark Tower series into graphic novels. I picked this up on a sale rack - estatic...and apprehensive that I was going to be handed a bulked-up testosterone driven shell of a story. I was right on both counts.<br/><br/>Marvel tells the st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65213445">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My only exposure to the Dark Tower series is listening to half of the Gunslinger (which I loved). Thus most, but not all, of the narrative of the Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born was new to me. Roland is an intriguing character anyway and I thought this style lent itself nicely to his story, especial...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47950581">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rehashes the main storyline of <em>Wizard and Glass</em>, the 4th of the <em>Dark Tower</em> books.  Well-done graphics and quick pacing, it is entertaining as a form of review for the storyline, although there is not much &quot;added value&quot; to having read this collection.<br/><br/>I'm hoping the series will e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54631192">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A decent enough story.  I haven't read any of the Dark Tower books so there was a lot that I knew I was missing, but Peter David still manages to deliver a compelling yarn in an interesting voice.  Story was a little jumpy, but otherwise fine.<br/><br/>What was rather more than fine (and what pushes...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54540215">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this review, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)<br/><br/>This is a graphic novel I recently found on the &quot;new&quot; shelf of my neighborhood'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27107250">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my &quot;bridge&quot; book into the world of comics.  I am a huge fan of the Dark Tower books by Stephen King and I think this first effort captures the aura of that series perfectly.<br/><br/>Unlike the books, the comic is apparently telling the story in chronological order, so most of t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24340082">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have been waiting to revisit Roland and his kin since I closed the final installment of Stephen King's &quot;The Dark Tower&quot; series last year. I have not admired and loved a fictional character as much as Roland Deschain since encountering Howard Roark (&quot;The Fountainhead&quot;) in the ea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24010055">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, I admit it! A SK book (sort of) that doesn't get a &quot;5&quot; rating from me. Well I'll tell you why - what is the title? Gunslinger Born? Okay, so the story is about when Roland first became a gunslinger, so that makes sense. But it's like trying to find a story about Jesus before he began...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20866527">more...</a>]]></body>
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