In an afterword to The Dark Tower book Wizard and Glass, King himself described the series as his literary Jupiter, "a planet that dwarfs all the others. Idris Elba (left) as Roland Deschain and Tom Taylor as Jake Chambers in the upcoming movie adaptation of The Dark Tower. RELATED: 50 of the Best Fantasy Books Ever Written In fact, it’s hard to find a Stephen King story that doesn’t overlap with The Dark Tower in some way, and most of the Dark Tower books also incorporate characters or themes from his other works. Not only does the epic stand alone as a fantasy saga, but the seven(ish) Dark Tower titles are actually explicitly intertwined with his horror books. When I received the books as a gift several years ago, I realized I was totally wrong. The series seemed inaccessible and boring-a sprawling, multimedia slog that I worried wouldn’t be sufficiently compelling as a fantasy story to keep me engaged if it lacked the thrills of King's horror novels. I've loved Stephen King since I found Misery in my own school library at 13, but I avoided The Dark Tower for over a decade. Nearly half a century later, the story of Roland Deschain is still rolling forward. In 1970, a 22-year-old University of Maine sophomore named Stephen King decided to use a ream of green paper he found in his college library to write the story of a determined gunslinger and his quest for a dark tower.
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