Do you know what I just realized??? *BIG spoilers about the end*

[Mist_on_the_Water]

cry pardon if this was already made,

I just recently began re-reading the Gunslinger after finishing the series about a year ago, and I just realized that the Gunslinger's beginning forshadows so much of the very end! It talks of Roland being dizzy, as if worlds are transparent, of Cuthbert and the Horn of Eld, which the first time he left at Jericho Hill, and there's just so many stupid little thhings that are hinted at like the bird-headed taheen and the mule reminding him of Sheemie, and omg I feel all like stupid now...cos I'm just realizing all of these things

this is only my second time reading it, so everything's sudenly starting to click with me.

[Wuducynn]

cry pardon if this was already made,

I just recently began re-reading the Gunslinger after finishing the series about a year ago, and I just realized that the Gunslinger's beginning forshadows so much of the very end! It talks of Roland being dizzy, as if worlds are transparent, of Cuthbert and the Horn of Eld, which the first time he left at Jericho Hill, and there's just so many stupid little thhings that are hinted at like the bird-headed taheen and the mule reminding him of Sheemie, and omg I feel all like stupid now...cos I'm just realizing all of these things

this is only my second time reading it, so everything's sudenly starting to click with me.

Wicked cool hunh? :harrier: Yeah, I've realized it before, but its great to see others realize it.

[LadyHitchhiker]

I didn't realize it so now I have to read it again!

[Wuducynn]

As if you needed an excuse Liz!

[Mist_on_the_Water]

ZOMG LIZ!!! Hiya! It's IR!!


and wowie I'm totally readin them al oer again


my third time will be when I have every king book that relates and read them the way you're supposed to!

[LadyHitchhiker]

I love to come up with excuses to do things I love ;)

[jayson]

same here. it's getting close to the point of "oh, that dude on tv said 'tower.' i'm reading it again."

[Wuducynn]

Yeah "Oh that thing in front of my face is long and dark so I better go read the Dark Tower series"

[jayson]

:lol: fucking hilarious CK!

[LadyHitchhiker]

same here. it's getting close to the point of "oh, that dude on tv said 'tower.' i'm reading it again."

pretty much

[LadyHitchhiker]

Yeah "Oh that thing in front of my face is long and dark so I better go read the Dark Tower series"
you know me too well ;)

[Mist_on_the_Water]

wow CK.....wow...I was bored with the fifty million others I'm currently halfway thru

fourth book of the Draginriders of Pern series (Anne McCaffrey), the Stand, Firestarter, Talisman, From a Buick 8, Door to December(Dean Koontz)....the list goes on and I've started them all

[IWasSentWest]

im in the middle of: cell, wizards first rule, dune (reread), dragons of an autumn twilight, the book of the dead (pendergast series), songs of susannah (blah, i didnt care much for this one), heart-shaped box, the black company (chronicles)...and i think something else

[LadyHitchhiker]

i'm in the middle of the green mile and gerald's game...

[Storyslinger]

cry pardon if this was already made,

I just recently began re-reading the Gunslinger after finishing the series about a year ago, and I just realized that the Gunslinger's beginning forshadows so much of the very end! It talks of Roland being dizzy, as if worlds are transparent, of Cuthbert and the Horn of Eld, which the first time he left at Jericho Hill, and there's just so many stupid little thhings that are hinted at like the bird-headed taheen and the mule reminding him of Sheemie, and omg I feel all like stupid now...cos I'm just realizing all of these things

this is only my second time reading it, so everything's sudenly starting to click with me.

Wicked cool hunh? :harrier: Yeah, I've realized it before, but its great to see others realize it.


What CK said

[Madagascar]

I guess I'll be re-reading the series sometime within a year. Only problem there is that I only have 3 of the books and access to a library only 180 days of the year. But I was thinking about that recently, if King was already setting things up for the last 3 books that early on.

[Letti]

I guess I'll be re-reading the series sometime within a year. Only problem there is that I only have 3 of the books and access to a library only 180 days of the year. But I was thinking about that recently, if King was already setting things up for the last 3 books that early on.

Welcome Madagascar! Rereading is a very good idea. :)

[LadyHitchhiker]

And word of the wise: anything Letti says is a good idea, is a good idea :D

[movieman19]

Yeah, I noticed the same thing when I started my second go-around. Really crazy when you think about it that it was written like 30 years apart.

[ManOfWesternesse]

I guess I'll be re-reading the series sometime within a year. Only problem there is that I only have 3 of the books and access to a library only 180 days of the year. But I was thinking about that recently, if King was already setting things up for the last 3 books that early on.

This is the Revised Gunslinger you are speaking of here though? - making it less 'early on'. The Original had less of the direct foreshadowing I think.

[jayson]

I guess I'll be re-reading the series sometime within a year. Only problem there is that I only have 3 of the books and access to a library only 180 days of the year. But I was thinking about that recently, if King was already setting things up for the last 3 books that early on.

This is the Revised Gunslinger you are speaking of here though? - making it less 'early on'. The Original had less of the direct foreshadowing I think.

was thinking that myself. have to check how much there really is in the original. with the revised it's cool that it's there, but really "retroactive foreshadowing" as it was added after the fact.

[LadyHitchhiker]

Radioactive foreshadowing? I love when I misread things

[Ka-tet]

Yeah it kinda makes you feel a little silly when you realise the answer was stairing you in the face, eh? Ive still to read the serise a second time i really should go back to it im sure the experiance will be diffent this time around. But i cant help but wonder will it be worse?

[RandoofGilead]

I've just finished it for the 2nd time although I went straight back to it after I finished it (I listen to and from work which is 2 hours a day).

I just had to wonder what the hell was I thinking the first time around that all of this starts RIGHT at the beginning. I'm kicking myself but am still trying to figure out the Man in Black and why he is there.

I have not gotten the revised version of this. It sounds like it clears a few things?

[Letti]

I have not gotten the revised version of this. It sounds like it clears a few things?

Not really. But it might be worth a read.

[Reverend Brimmstone]

I myself am re-reading The Gunslinger(revised) and noticed something that is in the Jake flashback: it mentions him eating lunch at school usually reading a sports novel or a Clay Blaisdell western.As I'm sure you'll remember, Clayton Blaisdell(Jr.) is the name of the main character of Blaze.

Another connection or cheeky bonus?

To IWasSentWest: THE PENDERGAST SERIES!!! Awesome! I started at Relic and went through them like wind through a canebrake!

Or Eels through innards.
They find an entrancs where they can.