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This is a great article revisiting Stephen King’s final three Dark Tower novels. I absolutely adore these books, and I am not at all in the camp of Dark Tower fans unsatisfied with the ending of Mr. King’s magnum opus. I spent quite a while reading and writing about th
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So Seinfeld premiered twenty-five years ago last week? Holy cow. Here’s a great look back at the beginning of the show. This is an interesting assessment of the show’s influence by noting, counter-intuitively, Seinfeld’s lack of imitators. This is also worth
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New production video for The Hobbit! Yay! Do you have $275 burning a hole in your pocket? Then why not consider buying yourself (or me!) a print of Drew Struzan’s gorgeous Dark Tower painting (originally featured in Frank Darabont’s vastly underrated adaptation of Step
“Any Object Can Be Magic” — Josh Reviews Stephen King’s New Dark Tower Novel: The Wind Through the Keyhole
“Stories take a person away. If they’re good ones, that is. Is it a good one?” After concluding his Dark Tower magnum opus in 2004 with the publication of the seventh and final novel, The Dark Tower (click here for my review), I suspect that Stephen King did not
Marvel Comics’ Adaptation of The Gunslinger
After pausing in my reading of Marvel Comics’ Dark Tower mini-series to read Stephen King’s Dark Tower short-story, “The Little Sisters of Eluria” (click here for my review), I was ready to resume my reading of Marvel’s Dark Tower comics. The Little Siste
“If There’s to Be Damnation, Let it Be of My Choosing” — The Dark Tower: The Little Sisters of Eluria
Between the publication of the fourth and fifth Dark Tower novels, Stephen King wrote a short story that was set in Roland’s younger days, after the Battle of Jericho Hill but before the events of the first Dark Tower novel, The Gunslinger. This short story is called “Th
“Ka is a Wheel” — Returning to The Dark Tower
Over the course of the last two summers, I made my way through Stephen King’s magnus opus: the seven-book Dark Tower saga. It was magnificent, and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. But somehow I knew when I finished book seven that I wasn’t quite done with the Dark
“Well Met in the House of the Rose” The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
“We’ll go,” he said. “We’ll find the Dark Tower, and nothing will stand against us, and before we go in, we’ll speak their names. All of the lost.” “Your list will be longer than mine,” xxx said, “but mine will be long en
“O Discordia!” The Dark Tower Book VI: Song of Susannah
Only a few hours after finishing Wolves of the Calla (click here for my review of that novel), I dove right into Song of Susannah, the penultimate novel in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. Song of Susannah is far shorter than books IV or V, or the finale, book VII. Perhaps th
“Come Come Commala!” The Dark Tower Book V: Wolves of the Calla
Stephen King waited a long time — six years — between writing the fourth book in the Dark Tower series, Wizard and Glass, and writing book five. I didn’t take that long of a break, myself, but after reading the first four novels in the series last summer and early