Stephen King's Lord of the Rings

jOHN rODRIGUEZ · #1 03-24-2006, 12:03 AM

The Dark Tower Series.

I was given a set with I, II, III & IV for Xmas and have just got around to the beginning of my journey. MINDBLOWING. Truely the next generation's "Lord of the Rings", which according to his forward(interesting in & of itself, the man is genius) is what he set out to achieve. I swear King must be a medium channeling Tolken.

Other than The Stand and The Shinning, I could never finish any of his other full novels to the end. I have always loved his short story sets, Nightshift, Four Past Mindnight, & his best & most recent Everything's Eventual. If you've never cared for him either, but hard up for reading, def. give Everything's Eventual a try I'd bet it will win you over. Not all horror either, but the horror IS horror. "1408" has always reminded me of Aphex Twin while I read it(three reads and everytime it scares the shit out of me!)

Professor · #2 03-24-2006, 08:46 AM

blackhouse is part of that series too...sort of a side character...from the talisman.

adam · #3 03-24-2006, 09:04 AM

Stephen King is an idiot. In my honest opinion. Can't say I've read Dark Tower to be honest, but nothing would incline me to do so. If you enjoy 'em, power to you, though. Don't mean to rain on your parade, just throwing in my two bits.

darktrain · #4 03-24-2006, 12:19 PM

I tore through books 1-3 and then got stalled mid-way through 4...and have been there for well over a year. I've heard from friends that it picks up again but I just haven't had the will to dive in again. The first third of book 2 is my fav.

Dark Tower comic series is coming from Marvel next year with art by Jae Lee.

adam · #5 03-24-2006, 12:54 PM

Is Jim Lee still drawing anything?

BeautifulBurnout · #6 03-24-2006, 01:02 PM

Well, I love Stephen King. For me he is the perfect escape from reality, and I seem to fall into the pages of his books almost without realising it and re-surface hours later.

Haven't read a lot of fiction lately, unfortunately, and haven't read any of this series, so I shall look forward to it.

Malt Refund · #7 03-24-2006, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by adam

Is Jim Lee still drawing anything?

Jae Lee is different then Jim Lee, but yeah he's been doing alot of Batman lately (Hush, Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder). Not doing nearly as much has he did in the 90's.

Jae Lee drawing Stephen King would be perfect, he's a crazy dude but his art style really fits so little in the ways of comics. I have a few Captain America's that he drew and they are just.. weird.