I don't believe that would be fair. The purpose of these polls is to determine the Best Stephen King Book.
5: I loved it
4: It was good
3: Average
2: Only so-so
1: I didn't like it
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I don't believe that would be fair. The purpose of these polls is to determine the Best Stephen King Book.
How so?Originally Posted by pathoftheturtle
As a kid, I absolutely loved it. However, this---- brought my vote down to a 4.
As one story...ah, forget it. Definitely too abstract.
Well, you know... I just happen to like the original The Gunslinger better as a work in it's own right than as it's been revisioned. Just my opinion. Still do much like the 2003 edition, though, in its own way.How so?As a kid, I absolutely loved it. However, this---- brought my vote down to a 4.
So it's your right to vote on the original only.
No, thanks. I kind of wish that it weren't so complicated, but I can't just pretend.
Besides, not even the original deserved to be ranked the same as The Waste Lands.
That I agree with. I gave this one a 3, myself.
Maybe we should have a poll like this:
would you rather:
1. have the DT series
or
2. All other SK works
This would be quite easy for me, but I don't know about everyone else.
As to DT 1, I gave it a 3.
Sloth Love Chunk
Read both the original and revised. It hooked me from the beginning. Have read it several times and it still hooks me- so a 5.
Oh, it would be fair. The guy who wrote it considers it as one book (several volumes) and so do I. Splitting it up to me is like voting chapters in a book against each other.
I do think it'd be interesting to see how the original or revised would or wouldn't advance against the other though...how they would place separately.
Well, perhaps a dedicated Dark Tower poll could be held
oh yes, yes!!! I was going to suggest the same last time we did it, and then chickened out, because I knew that most people (unlike bears) considered it a series rather than a 7-volume book, and the suggestion would entail a discussion I wasn't ready to face single-handed.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have never read the original, but I'd like to.
"May your luck rise, Roland" -Cuthbert Allgood
Luckily I have a bunch of homeless original gunslingers if you feel like PMing an address.
Jean, I'd like to cast my vote for chapter 7. Make it so, please.
Every book in TDT were wrote years apart... That´s what make it different books to me. Even the style is quite different between each other, and more important, "the guy who wrote it" has change (yeah, almost died by a car could do it) by all the experience in his life
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"I will show you fear in a handful of dust"
well, I believe it might take people years and decades to write novels
Brice: too late. I've already voted the forty-eighth passage and won by default
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I cringe at the thought of shipping costs from Fatu Hiva. Seriously though, I may just take you up on that.
"May your luck rise, Roland" -Cuthbert Allgood
Oh, it's not too bad....just a couple hundred million rocks if I don't send it express.I cringe at the thought of shipping costs from Fatu Hiva. Seriously though, I may just take you up on that.
This has always been one of my favorite books by ANYONE. That even most Dark Tower fans are lukewarm on it is just sad to me. So much atmosphere and slow character development really makes a perfect foundation for the books that followed. The only thing that ever bothered me on the first reading was the childhood flashbacks which really only start to become interesting after reading Wizard and Glass. Still, those odd flashes of a green and eager Roland grew on me a lot. I've probably read this book half a dozen times by now.
edit: Also I am one of the few who thinks King did a great job fixing the book in 2003. He was right about the language sounding naive and self important in the original.
Sure, quite easy. I love TDT, but I'd have to pick #2. Of course.
You & me both, bub. Just sad and pitiful...
Now you've lost me. I like Wizard and Glass a lot, but I do think Jean was onto something when he once said...(Please do go on and add to that thread, Kronz, if you'd care to.)Yes. I admired how King managed to tell us so much about Roland as a young boy and the process of his development in a few short flashbacks; I might not have thought about that if later it wasn't set against the endlessly long, and mostly pointless, W&G. The Gunslinger was multum in parvo, while W&G, if you pardon the expression, parvum in multo - so it helped me greatly to better appreciate The Gunslinger and somewhat improve my otherwise low opinion of it.Yes, there is some truth to that, he did a good job of making the book's language more mature. Again, I like the revised, as a different entity. Yet, I am one of the few who just don't think that the original was really broken. The original, to me, is still The Gunslinger. The revised I prefer to think of as "The Dark Tower: Volume I." Thus, I kind of feel that it could represent the series as realized if we added only this --When it comes to the more complicated suggestions, tho, I don't think that recognizing the concept of the series as one story necessarily excludes the idea of each volume as a book in it's own right. Viewed this way, none of them is exactly complete, but that's not always a bad thing... I could name a number of unfinished works which I love, and some intentionally partial ones. Thus, I personally feel comfortable saying "this book is better than King's official TDT, but that one is not as good."Yet, for a relevant other example, I can't regard The Green Mile in quite the same way that I'd look at a novel that was produced more typically.Oh, it would be fair. The guy who wrote it considers it as one book (several volumes) and so do I. ...
like what others have said i kind of found it slow but i have to say i loved it because i was def hooked...
i haven't finished it yet but i will give a 5 so far in my mind i can see the story unfolding i have waited 10 years to staert the trek now i wait to finish it
A resounding, euphoric : 5 !
The poll has closed. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger has earned a FAS (final average score) of 4.556338028 or 91.13%, placing 1st (winner) in this bracket. It will be moving on to Round 2. In 2009, The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger placed 2nd (runner-up) with a FAS of 4.186440678, so it gained 0.369897350 (+8.84%) this time.
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