What do you say?

[GNTLGNT]

It's about drinkin', man....

...c'mon, "dark"..."black"...we're spittin' vinages hyar!...have another snootful....

[PrisonerNumber6]

Well when comes to the Tower books, that's a very loaded question. I'm not sure if you could give the whole answer at all, however if I had to offer advice on what to say, and who asked me and who am I anyway, it would be this.

It's really about what happens when works of fiction take on a life of their own and how sometimes fictions can actually help save lives. Turns out that last part at least is true.

[BGlenn]

I tell then first and foremost that the series is King's masterpiece,
It's no secret that he loves those books more than anyone.

Then, I tell them that it's set in another world,
and that the world is dying,
and that there's a man named Roland who's the last person left in this world that can do anything about it.
I also tell them that the first sentence of the first book is the most important sentence in the entire series.

Thank you. I was hoping someone else would say that. I try to use the first line all the time, but I always thought it seemed too cryptic and overplayed. I'm scared I'll turn them off and they'll miss reading a masterpiece. Then again if they can't find it in them to step into the first page then they don't deserve to get beautifully lost.