“The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but size. Size encompasses life, and the Tower encompasses size. The child, who is most at home with wonder, says: Daddy, what is above the sky? And the father says: The darkness of space. The child: What is beyond space? The father: The galaxy. The child: Beyond the galaxy? The father: Another galaxy. The child: Beyond the other galaxies? The father: No one knows. -
Just finished the first book in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. It's a bit of a unique book as I find it hard to give it a genre, maybe a fantasy/western? Overall, not a bad book, it was my first S. King novel and since the books I've read lately have been so big it was nice that this novel was a bit more compact. The chapters were short and the book had a pretty good tempo. I'd recommend this book to anyone looking for a relatively quick read, it's not a heavy book but you do have to keep track of a bit to follow the story. I've also read that this is being made into an HBO series, so that could be very good. I guess George R R Martin's series was such a success for them that they want to find some other book series to milk. This is probably a good pick for that, although I would have preferred something like Dune. I know there are several attempts at Dune out there, but none were well done.
Overall, it's a decent read. I'll definitely pick up the other books of the series at some point. It gets a 7.5
I didn't know about the HBO series, excellent! :) I enjoyed this one, but didn't get along too well with the rest of the series. I'm a bit hit and miss with King.
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