datieray
January 8th, 2010, 11:58 AM
ok so i may very well be the only person who has an issue with this, but why aaren't the dark tower books 5,6 & 7 published in the same format as the first 4? i just recently started the dark tower series, and reading stephen king period, so i was buying them a book at a time as i read. i became enthralled by book 3 & wanted to buy the rest of the series only to find out all the books aren't the same. yes i am a tad OCD when it comes to things like this but seriously, why wouldn't you publish every book in a series the same way? The first four that i own are the mass market paperback revised & expanded editions that the penguin group put out in 2003. all the books are the same heighth & width & have similar cover art. the only versions of the last 3 books i can find are the "new" mass market paperback versions (published by simon & schuster in 2006) that are taller & not quite as wide as the first half of my collection. that and the cover art is completely different. like i said before, i may be the only person who has a problem with it (wouldn't be the first time :laugh:) but it really irks me when i go to line the dark tower series up on my bookcase & they aren't congruent :glare: so i guess to finally reach my question, does anyone know if these last 3 were put out in the same format & just impossible to find? or if perhaps the entire series may be reprinted, all by the same publisher, at any point in the near future? or if there is perhaps a solution i've yet to think of... any help at all would be great! oh & i'm new to the world of stephenking.com message boards so hi to everyone!!