Monday, September 8, 2008

Other book suggestions???

I also sent an email earlier today, wondering if you all would rather read The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. It's supposed to fabulous and not horror, just good stuff. (Adam on the Lex suggested this) Here is the Plot summary from Wikipedia:

Plot summary

In the story, Roland is the last living member of a knightly order known as gunslingers. The world he lives in is quite different from our own, yet it bears striking similarities to it. Politically organized along the lines of a feudal society, it shares technological and social characteristics with the American Old West, as well as bearing magical powers and the relics of a highly advanced, but long vanished, society. Roland's quest is to find the Dark Tower, a fabled building said to be the nexus of all universes. Roland's world is said to have "moved on," and indeed it appears to be coming apart at the seams — mighty nations have been torn apart by war, entire cities and regions vanish from the face of the earth without a trace, time does not flow in an orderly fashion; even the sun sometimes rises in the north and sets in the east. As the series opens, Roland's motives, goals, and his age are unclear, though later installments shed light on these mysteries.


We could also look at reading some of the classics, if anyone is interested in that. Hmm, bring it on ladies, bring the comments and votes!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

ummm...i saw this book online...anyone hear of her? I think its a new series!....
http://www.brendajoyce.com/novels_dark_embrace.htm

something different? I dont know...just helping out i think (ha!)
~Diz

Kayla said...

I just read In The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King last week. Roland was one of the characters in it. is it part of the Gunslinger series, too?