Stephen King
I'm thinking about my namesake.
All of you. Go out, buy or borrow, and read Stephen King's Dark Tower series. The Gunslinger, The Drawing Of The Three, The Waste Lands, Wizard and Glass, Wolves of the Calla, A Song for Susannah, and The Dark Tower.
There's Shardik, lobstrosities, Slow Mutants, a homicidal monorail named Blaine, thinnies, the Tick-Tock man, Pere Callahan, alternate worlds, the Dixie Pig, things under the earth, Todash space, nineteen, Algul Siento, an Artist, and the Crimson King himself.
You will gasp. You will sigh. You will laugh. You will sob.
It is a truly epic journey. So many trials, so many parts, wearing and grinding down on poor Roland. Roland, the Last Gunslinger. Roland, whose quest for the Tower will consume his body and mind.
If even one of you goes out and reads this, my work is done. This series is inextricably linked with me. I can't hear the song "Mad World" without thinking of Roland, his dusty boots crunching on gravel, fingering the pistols in his belt and staring into the setting sun.
Stephen King has created something that will define modern epics for years to come. It took 30-odd years, and thousands of pages, but it is done. It's an enormous series made of tiny parts. And each tiny part is memorable.
Read it now.
All of you. Go out, buy or borrow, and read Stephen King's Dark Tower series. The Gunslinger, The Drawing Of The Three, The Waste Lands, Wizard and Glass, Wolves of the Calla, A Song for Susannah, and The Dark Tower.
There's Shardik, lobstrosities, Slow Mutants, a homicidal monorail named Blaine, thinnies, the Tick-Tock man, Pere Callahan, alternate worlds, the Dixie Pig, things under the earth, Todash space, nineteen, Algul Siento, an Artist, and the Crimson King himself.
You will gasp. You will sigh. You will laugh. You will sob.
It is a truly epic journey. So many trials, so many parts, wearing and grinding down on poor Roland. Roland, the Last Gunslinger. Roland, whose quest for the Tower will consume his body and mind.
If even one of you goes out and reads this, my work is done. This series is inextricably linked with me. I can't hear the song "Mad World" without thinking of Roland, his dusty boots crunching on gravel, fingering the pistols in his belt and staring into the setting sun.
Stephen King has created something that will define modern epics for years to come. It took 30-odd years, and thousands of pages, but it is done. It's an enormous series made of tiny parts. And each tiny part is memorable.
Read it now.