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    Hello All! I just finished reading the DT series, and wanted other CR's opinions on their preference of the books....my list goes....

    1. Wizard and Glass (IV) - Simply an AMAZING book, a story by itself
    2. Drawing of the Three (II) - Shootout @ Balazar's - AWESOME!
    3. The Dark Tower (VII) - A good ending to an excellent series
    4. Wolves of the Calla (V) - wished they were really wolves!
    5. The Gunslinger (I) - THE BEGINNING? or really the end of VII?
    6. Song of Susannah (VI) - Loved the hate mail in the diary....hilarious!
    7. The Waste Lands (III) - Totally suprised by RF's....cameo?

    Please pass on your thoughts and preferences....I'd hear you very well, say thank ya!

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    My order has been since DT 7 came out -

    1. DT7
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    Wolves of the Calla
    3. Song of Susannah, Wastelands, Wizard and Glass, Drawing of the Three, The Gunslinger

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    4, 3, 7. A tie for the others.

    I don't consider 'The Gunslinger.' It stands alone.

    ~BJS

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    as i'm reading them, whatever number i'm on is my favorite. tuff call, otherwise. first time through, each book blew me away...but maybe the books where the scene shifts a lot between worlds...those ones are my favorites.

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    1. Wolves of the Calla - one of my top three SK novels ever
    2. The Dark Tower
    3. Song of Susannah

    I really straggled with the first 3 and I wouldn't list Wizard and Glass as one of my favorite either.

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    My favorite from the series for a long time has been The Wastelands until I read Song of Susannah in July. Now I'm not sure. But if I had to put a list together, it would look like this:

    1. The Wastelands

    2. Song of Susannah

    3. The Gunslinger

    4. The Drawing of the Three

    5. Wizard and Glass

    6. Wolves of the Calla

    I have yet to read Book 7, so obviously, that is not part of my list yet.

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    Wow...I started typing my list and found it really hard which order to put them in......The Wastelands was always one of my favs, even though I was stuck with the Ka-tet on Blaine for a few years.....but when I first read The Gunslinger when I was 14 I was hooked, having no clue of the awesomeness that would follow....The Gunslinger was the third SK book I had read and the one that truely hooked me and made me a fan for life. In Lisey's Story when Scott is giving his speech for the new library he asks the crowd to think of who wrote their first good book. The one that got under you like a magic carpet and lifted you right off the ground. For me it was the Gunslinger.

    Sorry to get a little off the point.....anyways heres my attempt at a list!!

    1. The Gunslinger/The Wastelands
    2. The Dark Tower
    3. Drawing of the Three/Wizard and Glass
    4. Wolves of the Calla
    5. Song of Susannah

    Long days and pleasant nights!!!

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    1. The Gunslinger
    2. Wizard and Glass
    3. The Drawing of the Three
    4. The Wasteland
    5. The Dark Tower
    6. Song of Susannah
    7. Wolves of the Calla

    I didn't enjoy the newer ones very much, but it was tough to choose between my top three.

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    Hi,

    I find it really difficult to rank them because I see them all as integral parts of the one story.

    Ka is a wheel.

    Long days and pleasant nights

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    Default Re: In What Order Do U Rank The DT Books?

    Good(and tough) question!

    1. DT4 - I got into the DT series in high school, and ate up all three books. The couple year wait for book 4 was rough, and it was finally released on my first day of college(I remember flying to the mall the minute I got out of class). What a read! Susan's fate was one of the few times in my life that I was truly touched from a book or movie. I loved it on first read, but it really blew my mind a few years later on a re-read. A buddy of mine got his parent's timeshare at a resort in the Poconos. We brought some booze and pot and figured we would party for the weekend there. Turns out it was a special "newlyweds week" and EVERYONE there were couples. So I felt uncomfortable doing the activities with my buddy because I thought people would be getting the wrong idea, so I locked myself in my room for the majority of the weekend and smoked an ounce of good green and read DT4 in between naps and joints. It really blew my mind that second read!

    2. DT2 - I think most people would agree that the series really took off with this book. Eddie, Odetta, Jack Mort, time travel, different worlds...... It had it all!

    3. DT5 - I waited FOREVER for this book and it delivered. It solidified Jake's critical part of the Ka-tet, surprised the crap out of me with Father Callahan and his journey, and told an all around good story that advanced things to the end.

    4. DT7 - The finale was far from perfect, but it had some brilliant moments. Eddie's seemingly random demise . King had me laughing one moment (painting the driver that ran him over as a blithering idiot) , and almost in tears the next( Jake dying and Oy crying) . I thought it was a satisfying ending and done about as well as you can after such a buildup. The Crimson King was a bit anti-climatic and I was a bit disappointed in how the mighty RF was dispatched in a page like he was a nobody, but I liked this novel.

    DT3 - Overall, this is a good novel, but not a favorite of the DT series in my eyes. The SLLLLOW buildup had a wonderful payoff at the end, but for the most part I was bored from the moment they rescued Jack until they attempted to cross the bridge. RF making an appearence was sweet!

    DT1 - This novel deserves respect because it was first in a classic group of books, but overall it just wasn't a very good book. It did introduce A LOT of everything we were about to learn in later books.

    DT6 - Ugh. Something about this book just rubbed me the wrong way. Felt like an unnecessary bridge to the final book.

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