I will give you that. I couldn't help but mutter "midichlorians off the scale" when Flagg popped his gizmo on Jake's head.

Get The Dark Tower Concordance by Robin Furth. I believe some of these issues are laid out quite definitively.

He isn't dead yet.

Drawing
Wolves
Gunslinger
Song of susannah
The Dark Tower
Wizard and Glass
Wastelands

THICK?

Try it. It is a fine mess, but I interpret the series as a whole as a testament to the art , skill and joy of storytelling, writing, and communication. If you want to skip forward towards the quest, skip book 4, which works primarily as a prequel chronicling Roland's first love and how it ended tragically. Book 5 is…

"All Hail The Crimson King" is scrawled on the wall in the house where Jake finds the portal.

Glad to hear that a non-reader dug it!

Nota Bene: The title story of Everythings Eventual is also DT-related.

Seems the movie went out of its way to not refer to the Dark Tower.

In a perfect cinema Hollywood world I would love a straight adaptation of The Gunslinger, too. It would be a great, brooding, cerebral mindfuck worthy of, say, a Pt Anderson direction.

The horn is sitting next to Roland's other supplies in the scene where Jake first meets Roland.

Try reading Dean Koontz if you wanna go low brow.

It's not the truncation of 4500 pages because it's not supposed to be one!

Besides which, there would likely be multiple "power stations" being utilized , not just with kids, and ultimately the one shown in book 6.

Av club notoriously letter grades higher than the context of the review, for some reason.

You forgot Frank Darabont who directed The Green Mile and The Mist and got it right both times (per Sai King and fans). You should also know that (publicly at least) King has given his full praise for this.

I think the both of you missed the point of this enterprise. This is a new version of the story. .anyone who has read the books straight to the end would understand this.

Finished the film today. It is nowhere near the flop implied by its detractors' criticisms…whether they are longtime fans or critics who never broke open any of the books. My personal grade=B-.

with this review and my local reliable movie critic saying much the same, I am saddened to say the least. I hope the fans watch it anyway so there will be impetus for a promised sequel with Eddie, Susanna and Oy .