George Guidall?s interpretative reading was fair. The listener is left with more questions than after the book, than before.
You will have realised that Roland is the last gunslinger and that his obsession with catching the ?Man in Black? against all costs, actually points the ethereal Dark Tower. At the end of the book you do have an idea what a gunslinger is. Do I understand Stephen King correctly Roland?s love for the boy was more than just parental love? It is disturbing, to say the least. The way he kills of the whole town of Tull, even his sex partner, Allie, as well as the awkward ?relationship? that he had with a nine year old boy called Jake are bizarre. I found Roland to be someone quite difficult to identify with. At times it feels that the story cries against all logic.
Yet it soon becomes clear that the story is not set in our world or in a typical wild western environment. Roland of Gilead, the main character, is a sort of serious Cowboy Don Quixote on an obsessive quest, to catch the mysterious, possibly demonic, ?Man in Black.? The story is set in a universe akin to ours with references very similar to ours, like ?the man Jesus? and certain holy days. ?The Gunslinger? is a story containing a mix western, fantasy, horror, blood and gore, fantasy and just plain weirdness. I really want to be in on the joke, but I just can?t find the punch line. Have you ever wanted so badly to be part of a hype, just to discover that while others are going crazy about it, you are left out in the cold? The first book of the Dark Tower series makes me feel that way. A Surrealistic Western that almost feels familiar
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