All we know is that the Man in Black is his connection to a larger quest – that of the Dark Tower. Some things are learnt – by us and by Roland – but the narrative is mysterious, as mysterious as the reasons behind his search. We go along as his search takes him through a town, the desert, the mountains we meet some people (and some monsters) along the way, some stick around for a very short amount of time, some for even less. The search for the Man in Black, by Roland, our hero, has been going on for years and now he is closer than never. “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” : with this phrase we have both an opening sentence and a summary of The Gunslinger. Why did I read the book: Thea has threatened by with bodily harm if I didn’t. Both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, the Gunslinger leaves readers eagerly awaiting the next chapter. In his first step towards the powerful and mysterious Dark Tower, Roland encounters an alluring woman named Alice, begins a friendship with Jake, a kid from New York, and faces an agonising choice between damnation and salvation as he pursues the Man in Black. He is a haunting figure, a loner, on a spellbinding journey into good and evil, in a desolate world which frighteningly echoes our own. Summary: In the Gunslinger, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, the last Gunslinger. Stand alone/ series: book 1 of Dark Tower series
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