Step Over to the Dark Side...Have You Converted Anyone? How did you do it?

[Brice]

I say vote it to him now, Letti.

[JameseyLefebure]

Junkies like to share.

very true Brice - very true!!

Jamesey

[Brice]

*whispers*
You lookin'?

[Whiskeybent]

I got my gf to read Gunslinger and Drawing, but she lost interest. To bring her back, I started reading Wastelands to her every night the past couple of weeks and now she cant wait for bedtime so I can read her more. It's our nightly thing now

[ola]

I am giving a non-revised Gunslinger to my dad for Christmas, apparently after I blabbered about the series enough he went and checked out the Revised version from the library...so I may have to slip it to him early! I'm so not letting him start with the new one.

[Brice]

I knew I liked you.






I kidnap people, lock them in the basement, chain them to the water heater and torture them until they become receptive to reading the story.

[pinkymcfatfat]

I've gotten a lot of people to read the series...my most memorable would be a friend of my husband who thought nothing and no one could top the Jedi Knight's in 'Star Wars'.

[JameseyLefebure]

I knew I liked you.






I kidnap people, lock them in the basement, chain them to the water heater and torture them until they become receptive to reading the story.

Well Brice - sounds like you n me have an awful lot in common!!!

Jamesey
x

[Brice]

I knew I liked you.






I kidnap people, lock them in the basement, chain them to the water heater and torture them until they become receptive to reading the story.

Well Brice - sounds like you n me have an awful lot in common!!!

Jamesey
x

[Jean]

::begins to realize::

now I see where all those people go whom I fail to verbally incline towards reading TDT... I wondered why they were no longer around...

[JameseyLefebure]

::begins to realize::

now I see where all those people go whom I fail to verbally incline towards reading TDT... I wondered why they were no longer around...

shhhhhhhhhh

[Brice]

Oh, the ones who STILL aren't convinced after my coercion still stay around.

Spoiler:

...beneath my back yard.

[Letti]

I've gotten a lot of people to read the series...my most memorable would be a friend of my husband who thought nothing and no one could top the Jedi Knight's in 'Star Wars'.

I must say that's impressive.

[Letti]

I say vote it to him now, Letti.

But I am a little bit afraid. My mom might tear my head off. She doesn't have a nice opinion about SK.
In her head: SK = horror =

I cannot wait to give the Gunslinger to my little brother. If he doesn't want to read it I will read it out for him (if he lets me). I know we have talked about it before but I don't think we have that thread anymore so when can children start to read this series? What do you think?

What age is he now Letti?

My son Mark is going to start it soon. He's 12 now.
He read & loved:-
Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings"
Robert Jordans "Wheel of Time" series - all 12 books a couple of times!
RE Feist's "Magician" etc... series
& is currently almost finished the 8 books of Stephen Donanlson's "Chronicles of Thomas Covenant"

.... so he should be well ready (& able) for the DT!

He is 11. And he doesn't read much. I would be so happy if I could open his eyes and show him the beautiful world of books.

[Brice]

I say vote it to him now, Letti.

But I am a little bit afraid. My mom might tear my head off. She doesn't have a nice opinion about SK.
In her head: SK = horror =

I cannot wait to give the Gunslinger to my little brother. If he doesn't want to read it I will read it out for him (if he lets me). I know we have talked about it before but I don't think we have that thread anymore so when can children start to read this series? What do you think?

What age is he now Letti?

My son Mark is going to start it soon. He's 12 now.
He read & loved:-
Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings"
Robert Jordans "Wheel of Time" series - all 12 books a couple of times!
RE Feist's "Magician" etc... series
& is currently almost finished the 8 books of Stephen Donanlson's "Chronicles of Thomas Covenant"

.... so he should be well ready (& able) for the DT!

He is 11. And he doesn't read much. I would be so happy if I could open his eyes and show him the beautiful world of books.

Oh, well since it is your mom...

*kidnaps Letti's mom and gently ties her up to read to her* :innocence:

Children should be read to even before they are born.

[Letti]

I say vote it to him now, Letti.

But I am a little bit afraid. My mom might tear my head off. She doesn't have a nice opinion about SK.
In her head: SK = horror =

I cannot wait to give the Gunslinger to my little brother. If he doesn't want to read it I will read it out for him (if he lets me). I know we have talked about it before but I don't think we have that thread anymore so when can children start to read this series? What do you think?

What age is he now Letti?

My son Mark is going to start it soon. He's 12 now.
He read & loved:-
Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings"
Robert Jordans "Wheel of Time" series - all 12 books a couple of times!
RE Feist's "Magician" etc... series
& is currently almost finished the 8 books of Stephen Donanlson's "Chronicles of Thomas Covenant"

.... so he should be well ready (& able) for the DT!

He is 11. And he doesn't read much. I would be so happy if I could open his eyes and show him the beautiful world of books.

Oh, well since it is your mom...

*kidnaps Letti's mom and gently ties her up to read to her* :innocence:

Children should be read to even before they are born.

In fact I think she would enjoy it.

How nice. I couldn't agree more.

[Brice]

*ties Letti up instead*

[Mark]

I'm trying to get my brother, who was 11 today, into reading it, but it bores him. It's odd, he is reading The Fellowship of the Ring, and I found that boring, and I love DT...

Got two friends into it as well, they both realyl enjoy the series, one was already a SK fan, the other didn't read so much.

[stone, rose, unfound door]

I got my gf to read Gunslinger and Drawing, but she lost interest. To bring her back, I started reading Wastelands to her every night the past couple of weeks and now she cant wait for bedtime so I can read her more. It's our nightly thing now

That's a cute way to convert someone

[NoLabelBG]

Oh, I got at least 6 people to read it. They were all amazed by the DT. One of them didn't read anything by King before, which was a mistake, but she saw that I'm crazy about it, and she started reading it! The same thing happened with my mother! I was reading Drawing of the Three and I told her that the book is extremely good, and she started to read The Gunslinger and very soon she was on the Song of Susannah, while I was still reading Wizard and Glass!
For most of the people that I convinced to read the DT, it became the best book ever!

[JameseyLefebure]

I've now managed to get my son to read the gunslinger. Admittedly it was part of a puishment for doing badly in school so had his TV taken off him and was given a book to read instead - but he's hooked now and I've also managed to get the two lads I work with hooked on S.K (one on the dark tower and one on IT) and ofcourse there's terry who wasn't a S.K fan before we started dating - he refused to read them but he loved dragons so I took him that in the 3rd Dark Tower book they fight a dragon, he read the first two and by the time he had finished the 7th book he'd forgotten completely that I said there were dragons sneaky sneaky!!

Jamesey
xxx

[Whiskeybent]

I got my gf to read Gunslinger and Drawing, but she lost interest. To bring her back, I started reading Wastelands to her every night the past couple of weeks and now she cant wait for bedtime so I can read her more. It's our nightly thing now

That's a cute way to convert someone

Yes, dudes take note; Read Tower to your ladies. Might help them relationships

[JameseyLefebure]

I got my gf to read Gunslinger and Drawing, but she lost interest. To bring her back, I started reading Wastelands to her every night the past couple of weeks and now she cant wait for bedtime so I can read her more. It's our nightly thing now

That's a cute way to convert someone

Yes, dudes take note; Read Tower to your ladies. Might help them relationships

it's like the literary version of Barry White

jamesey
xxx

[Letti]

I've now managed to get my son to read the gunslinger. Admittedly it was part of a puishment for doing badly in school so had his TV taken off him and was given a book to read instead - but he's hooked now
Jamesey
xxx

Best. Punishment. Ever.

[kaleidyscope]

Cleared my wifes Iphone of music, cleared my Ipod of music and loaded them both with The Gunslinger audiobook.

Conversion rate = 100%