The Dark Tower
The Dark Tower is a 1990 epic fantasy and ghost story novel by Stephen King. It takes readers to New York and Mid-world in 1960–1999. It features Roland Deschain, Stephen King and Eddie Dean. Key subjects include The Dark Tower, Post-apocalpytic, Roland of Gilead and good and evil.
Open Library readers give it an average of 4.3 out of 5 from 10 ratings, and 207 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 40 editions across 6 languages.
It runs to roughly 790 pages — 14–15 hours of reading at an average pace.
About The Dark Tower
"Roland's ka-tet remains intact, though scattered over wheres and whens. Susannah-Mia has been carried from the Dixie Pig (in the summer of 1999) to a birthing room - really a chamber of horrors - in Thunderclap's Fedic; Jake and Father Callahan, with Oy between them, have entered the restaurant on Lex and Sixty-first with weapons drawn, little knowing how numerous and noxious are their foes. Roland and Eddie are with John Cullum in Maine, in 1977, looking for the site on Turtleback Lane where "walk-ins" have been often seen. They want desperately to get back to the others, to Susannah especially, and yet they have come to realize that the world they need to escape is the only one that matters." "Thus the book opens, like a door to the uttermost reaches of Stephen King's imagination. You've come this far. Come a little farther. Come all the way. The sound you hear may be the slamming of the door behind you. Welcome to The Dark Tower."--BOOK JACKET.
Quick answers
Who wrote The Dark Tower?
The Dark Tower was written by Stephen King and first published in 1990.
What genre is The Dark Tower?
It is usually shelved as Epic Fantasy, Ghost Stories and Horror.
How long is The Dark Tower?
The median edition has 790 pages, about 14–15 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.
What books are similar to The Dark Tower?
Readers who like it often enjoy The Passage, A Storm of Swords and A Clash of Kings.
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