Starting to get hooked

[ChickenStu]

I agree. I've just finished book 3, and I'm kind of eager to know what happens next. Read the first three books in four days!

[Lencho_of_the_Apes]

DON'T OPEN ANY DARK TOWER THREADS ON THE BOARD UNTIL AFTER YOU FINISH VOLUME 7.

I MEAN IT.

REALLY.

We all float down here.

[Samantha_]

Oh, my gosh

[muskrat]

Yeah..Waste Lands was the one that really got me hooked. I dug the first two, sure, but once the full ka-tet was formed and they had to cross that swaying, delapitated bridge into Lud...goosebumps just talking about it now...I swear I could feel the breeze and sway of the bridge, could sense the depth of the chasm below...knew that beyond lay any number of unknown horrors in that wretched city...No going back now, I thought, I'm in for the long weird haul...

There really aren't any words too describe what I felt reading that passage. That's why he's the KING.

[Walter o'Dim]

i got the first 2 dt books at a thrift store and after reading them i was hooked i tried reading something else but i just couldnt get my mind of the series so i went and got all the books and thats all i read all in a row..

detta walker is super annoying though i agree 100% with you i was so glad when she was taken care of lol

[jellydonut25]

I fully agree with the OP. The Gunslinger was a very good read, and probably the only book in the series that could more or less stand on its own, but The Wastelands is the book that hooked me and kept me reading. The Drawing of the Three was a challenge to read at times (Detta Walker), confusing at other times (North, right, left, West...), and often just a touch too silly (fun is fun but I really felt like Roland lost some of his edge here...). The Wastelands brings back into the fold all the things that made me love The Gunslinger and like The Gunslinger (and unlike The Drawing of the Three) feels like there is definite advancement on the road to The Tower itself. I love The Wastelands (but Wizard and Glass is still my favorite).

[bluesology]

I was one of the readers who had to wait and wait and wait. For me, Wastelands came out either just as I was finishing Junior High or starting High School - I can't remember. The next volume was released when I was about midway through college. It was torture but definitely worth it in the end.

[Elemeno P]

I was one of the readers who had to wait and wait and wait. For me, Wastelands came out either just as I was finishing Junior High or starting High School - I can't remember. The next volume was released when I was about midway through college. It was torture but definitely worth it in the end.

I always doff my hat at those that waited for them to come. I can't even imagine.

I had my iphone loaded up with each book as I finished one.

[krs72]

I read The Gunslinger back in 1990 around the time The Wastelands was coming out. After that I read The Stand Uncut version, then I started back on the DT series. DT 3 was the one, like a couple of you said, that really grabbed me and wouldn't let go, after reading it and the cliff-hanger ending, I was hooked.

[Owen Lee Smee]

To those reading the series I’ll respect and stay away from specifics as a fully fledged SK addict of more than 30 years I was intrigued by the concept of him writing a western and was intrigued from the "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." I was lucky enough to have stumbled across that book late enough so I didn’t have to wait to long for the proceeding books and have now read the entire series a multiple of times. I agree few will stand alone but the biggest and am sure the part that must have been one of the hardest was how the series borrows dips joins melds other works so successfully within it and also melds with factual parts of life as well.

Brilliant work and I crave to see it in film Big Big.