The Dark Tower By Stephen King.

[GnFnR87]

Eddie is a badass.? Fucking Blue Heaven.

My favorite character besides Roland is Oy the brave of Mid-World.? You'll meet him soon enough.

nice. i have the first four books, i'm trying to average a book a week until i go back home for easter, then hopefully i'l be all set for the fifth. or at least close, i know school work might get in the way but i will try.

[GnFnR87]

i am almost done with The Drawing of The Three and i love it. i think its a million times better than the first book.

how the hell could they make the Dark Tower series into a movie/movies??? that just blows my mind. the story seems a bit intricate and um.. long.

[eddie_dean]

I agree.  I don't see how it can be made into a movie, ecspecially when a certain character would need to be in 6/7 movies and age would be a factor.  If you love the tower after book 2, let me say you ain't seen nothing yet.  Book 3 and Book 4 ecspecially are fucking amazing.  You really feel like you're part of the adventure.

[eddie_dean]

GnFnR87, have you read The Stand yet?  If not I highly recommend you take a slight detour and read it before you embark onto book III.

[GnFnR87]

GnFnR87, have you read The Stand yet?? If not I highly recommend you take a slight detour and read it before you embark onto book III.

noooooooooo its so long tho... i do plan to read The Stand but not yet!! i have to keep going in the series!!!

[eddie_dean]

Book VII is about equal to the stand, maybe longer.  The reason I ask is because there are many references in Book 3 and 4 related to The Stand.

[eddie_dean]

While I'm at it, I recommend Salem's Lot before book V and Hearts in Atlantis before VII.

[GnFnR87]

While I'm at it, I recommend Salem's Lot before book V and Hearts in Atlantis before VII.

dude your killing me!!! i will read them eventually but i wont be able to wait and hold down the excitement and curiousity about what happens in the series!!! i have to keep going in the series!! LOL

[LeftToDecay]

Oi!
J.J Abrams of Lost/Cloverfield fame  has bought the film rights  of Dark Tower!!!
King asked 19 dollars.

Abrams and pile of other Lost writers are supposedly already working on the script.
Characters in Lost have always reminded me a lot of typical King characters:
I can't quite put my finger on it..it's some subtle touch Abrams(or someone else in Lost team) keeps adding every now and then, that makes me feel like I was reading something by King, instead of watching Lost. Did that make any sense?

So..yeah! I for one have a very good feeling about this. If someone out there has the ability to capture the character gallore of the Dark Tower and their spirit..it would have to be Abrams&co.
However, it is easy to be a little bit worried when it comes to portraying the actual world. Odd apocalyptic pile of surreal spaghetti western world is a bit if a step upwards from a tropical freakin island ay?
I just hope Abrams ends up smoking Weed and watching The good, the bad and the ugly instead of drinking beer and watching Mad Max.

There was cool Dark Tower referance in Mist by the way. In the opening scene of the movie, the guy starring in the film is obviously painting Roland.

Opening scene of latest Lost Episode(Ben in desert) was just loaded with Dar Tower-ism. Maybe it's just me though.

[Bandita]

This film really needs to be done right.  I have my own perceptions of the characters and I will be really interested to see who gets cast when they finally do it.

[The Chad Cometh]

Cannot be done in one film ... no fucking way.
This just has to be a trilogy and even then ...

[crow316]

Yeah, I dont see how this can be made right.  Even if its done properly, most people wouldnt "get it" and it wont make money. Maybe Im wrong. Great book series, though.

[Jim]

Oi!
J.J Abrams of Lost/Cloverfield fame  has bought the film rights  of Dark Tower!!!
King asked 19 dollars.

Abrams and pile of other Lost writers are supposedly already working on the script.
Characters in Lost have always reminded me a lot of typical King characters:
I can't quite put my finger on it..it's some subtle touch Abrams(or someone else in Lost team) keeps adding every now and then, that makes me feel like I was reading something by King, instead of watching Lost. Did that make any sense?

I've been touting the Dark Tower connection in Lost since day one!!

Charlie had a bit of Eddie all over him. Just a shame he couldn't deposit his drugs in Mid-World when he was in the toilets... Wait, not that it actually mattered. Err... Locke was in a wheelchair... Err... No, seriously, I saw it loads. Once apon a time I thought that the Dark Tower was the answer to the whole thing... I kid you not!

[LeftToDecay]

Oi!
J.J Abrams of Lost/Cloverfield fame  has bought the film rights  of Dark Tower!!!
King asked 19 dollars.

Abrams and pile of other Lost writers are supposedly already working on the script.
Characters in Lost have always reminded me a lot of typical King characters:
I can't quite put my finger on it..it's some subtle touch Abrams(or someone else in Lost team) keeps adding every now and then, that makes me feel like I was reading something by King, instead of watching Lost. Did that make any sense?

I've been touting the Dark Tower connection in Lost since day one!!

Charlie had a bit of Eddie all over him. Just a shame he couldn't deposit his drugs in Mid-World when he was in the toilets... Wait, not that it actually mattered. Err... Locke was in a wheelchair... Err... No, seriously, I saw it loads. Once apon a time I thought that the Dark Tower was the answer to the whole thing... I kid you not!

Yeah Charlie/Eddie similiarities are definately there. Also, I keep having Ben/Marten vibes too. And..ahhh! they all are so very King-like.

There was a very direct Dar Tower referance ( or rather, just an easter egg) at some point during the first season.(or was it 2nd)
The balloon that had crashed on the island was sponsored by Nozza-la cola, of Dark Tower fame!
There is an entire page dedictaed to Lost/Dark Tower connection at lost's wiki hub actually.
It just might be more or less paranoid fan driverl but hay, its cool read.
http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_%28theory%29

[Vicious Wishes]

The Dark Tower is Kings best work to date. The series is one of (if not the) best series ever.

The LOTR was three long books. Three great books. Three long movies.
Dark Tower is seven.

I have serious reservations about trying to make these into movies or a mini-series.
Only because if it were movies, it would have to be at least four movies minimum. And a mini series wouldn't do it justice, even if it were seven parts long, imo.

If you've read the books, you'd expect LOTR type movies.

[Jim]

Only because if it were movies, it would have to be at least four movies minimum. And a mini series wouldn't do it justice, even if it were seven parts long, imo.

Try nine!

... Seriously though. I guess that, if you absolutey had to, you could dispense with Wizard and Glass. The latter trilogy, WoTC through to DT could possibly be condensed into two movies...

But The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three and The Waste Land would have to have their own movie each !!

So I get five. And that's at a push.