redjen posted:

tenmileshigh117@yahoo.com posted:

NOVELS THAT ARE INVOLVED IN THE DARK TOWER IN SOME WAY, THAT I HAVE READ-

Insomnia
Everything's Eventual (a short story about Roland before he catches up with the man in black . . )


. . .help me out here people . .
THANKS!!

Insomnia is related to the Dark Tower?? Really?? Coooool...

Another one, for some "family history", is The Eyes of the Dragon.

And then, of course, 'Salems Lot, for some history on Father Callahan, who shows up later in the DT series, I think Wolves of the Calla.

I freaking love this series...one of the best things I've ever read, EVAR.

Oh, duh, also The Standis related to it, too! D'oh!

As for a movie version...I personally hope it never happens, but if it did, I think Hugh Laurie would be perfect. Bombadeir Blue Eyes, and all!!

Hey!

If you remember the artist who could magically draw thing into existence in the final book in the series? His name is Patrick Danville.
Back to Insomina, Ralph, and his girlfriend, are charged with saving the world from this crazy scientist guy (Ed Deapneau) who claims he's seen the Crimson King, and all kinds of other shit . . .
Ralph thinks he's crazy - cut to few weeks later, when getting a mere 3 hours of sleep per night, he sees bald doctors come to cut the 'baloon string' from the heads of the dying - cut to weeks later when he encounters these to bald doctors, and they expalin to him that the Crimson King does exsist, and he explains what KA is, and how it's like a wheel that cannot be interupted.
It is here that they charge him with stopping Ed Deapneau from destoying the Civic Center that night, because a boy who will be there at the Civic center with his mother, is vital to the existance of the universe. To kill him would be to interupt the cycle of KA all together . . . His name is Patrick Danville, 'the artist' from the last book in The Dark Tower series . . .

I won't spoil anymore of Insomnia, but I will say that the Crimson King makes a cameo towards the end of the Kamokazi Mission of Ed's, and that Patrick, after the commotion of the impact of the Plane meant to destroy the Civic Center dies down, shows his mother a picture he was drawing in the Building. It's a picture of a long, sooty black Tower, stood in a field of roses, with a Dark Red (almost Crimson in hue) Maniac stood at the top of it, laughing. At the foot of the Tower, stands a Tall man, with guns the size of swords, and a single rose . . . . Patrick was very young that night when he drew this, and when his mother asked him what it was, he told her, "It's a picture of the Dark Tower, and that's the Crimson King". She asks who the cowboy is, and he says, "That's Roland; he's a King too . . ."

It also mentioned that halfway around the million universes, when Ralph stopped Ed, Roland, the last gunslinger, tossed in his sleep, in the endless desert. In some fashion, he knew that whatever crises was about to occur was averted, and The Crimson King failed in his attempt to spoil KA's events . . .

I'm currently onto The Waste Land, and can't get enough!

*SPOILERY ALERT!!! THOSE WHO HAVE NOT READ PAST THE WASTE LANDS, MAY NOT WANT TO READ THIS POST. THERE IS ALSO VOCABULARY THAT ISN'T REVEALED UNTIL THE VERY LAST CHAPTER OF THE STORY!!!

I am made to believe that DESPERATION is also tied into The Dark Tower some how . . .

Into the first 175 pages or so . . . The cop mentioned the coyotes are his fellow can-toi. I believe the cop may be a can-toi himself, because he's a fucking lunitic, and the others in the story so far have mentioned that he now looks like his skin is only an outside layer to another skin underneath it, something horrible . . .

I know THE STAND has to do with the story, because after Roland's ka-tet's encounter, and defeat, of Blaine the monorail, they arrive in Topeka, which happens to be in Topeka, Kansas, in a world where some epedemic flu that was widely know as Captain Trips has killed off the majority of the population of the planet. They encounter the decaying remains of a few victims of this virus, then embark onward along the path of the beam, down the freeway, and ultimately into Roland's tale of his past . . .

Ell posted:

Holy shit, I had no idea that Insomnia was that involved with the Tower books! I'm so ordering it right now.

You won't be disapointed, INSOMNIA has everything to do with The Tower . . .

tenmileshigh117@yahoo.com posted:

*SPOILERY ALERT!!! THOSE WHO HAVE NOT READ PAST THE WASTE LANDS, MAY NOT WANT TO READ THIS POST. THERE IS ALSO VOCABULARY THAT ISN'T REVEALED UNTIL THE VERY LAST CHAPTER OF THE STORY!!!

I am made to believe that DESPERATION is also tied into The Dark Tower some how

I actually just finished reading that book, it was fuckin' awesome. I think that there are definetly a few other Tower references throughout the book, but I'll let you find them for yourself.

i am totally burnt out on Stephen king for the time being...

i was kind of dissappointed in the anti-climax ( the battle with the crimson king) however i found the ending appropriate...

lets not forget The Talisman and Black House are related to the Tower books. and great reads.

I haven't read any of the seven books yet but I have read the graphic novel The Gunslinger Born, pretty 'effing good as I'm really into the graphic novel medium and Stephen King is just the best! Makes me want to head down to my local Borders books and pick up the first book of the lot...

The graphic novel series that Marvel is doing is great!!!

I takes the story of the Wizard and Glass and carry's after into the time as he journeys back to Gilead.
I hope they tell the story of the great battle and the fall of Gilead!!! It's so great to have the story and characters laid out in a very visual form!!!

You actually could get away with reading it from book II onwards if you can get past being rather confused to begin with. There's an introduction at the beginning of the book called an 'argument' that basically rehashes all of book I, so if you can't get hold of it my advice is just to skip it and start with Drawing of the Three and then come back to it later.

I love this book series oh so much and have since got four tattoos that relate to it ha. As an aspiring film maker it is my dream goal to one day direct the film series or atleast The Wastelands seeing as it is my favorite of the series.

After many discussions with Tower/film junkies I think the perfect choice for Roland would be Daniel Day Lewis.

I actually have the trailer for the first film completley figured out in my head two. Ha