When did you meet Roland? How many years ago? How old were you?

[Wuducynn]

For me the really bad wait was between Wizard and Glass and Wolves of the Calla, mainly because of the accident.

[Daghain]

Accident?

Oh DUH, THAT accident. Yeah, that was bad too.

[nodarb17]

i just met him last year so it wouda been 06 obviously lol but yeah im really glad i did and am happy im a teenager who LOVES to read

[Matt]

hey nodarb--

Its great meeting people who are new to the series. Welcome to the site.

[MonteGss]

im really glad i did and am happy im a teenager who LOVES to read

I felt the same way. I felt I was "cooler" than others because I read a lot, smarter too. Great to have you here!

[Letti]

im really glad i did and am happy im a teenager who LOVES to read

I felt the same way. I felt I was "cooler" than others because I read a lot, smarter too. Great to have you here!

You guys are lucky. I felt lonely because I couldn't share it with anyone.

[Brice]

Me too! Most of my friends were books. I was a bit of a social leper when I was young.

[Storyslinger]

I still am

[ZoNeSeeK]

I used to be, but not so much anymore

[Storyslinger]

Yeah Zone

[myishi]

i start reading the books two months ago, i finished a week ago (im 15)
i read em slowly, because there aint any slovene translation of em..
its hard for me to read in english so much

[Letti]

i start reading the books two months ago, i finished a week ago (im 15)
i read em slowly, because there aint any slovene translation of em..
its hard for me to read in english so much

Wooow! Be proud of yourself.

[myishi]

i couldnt put the books down

[Matt]

That is an amazing pace myishi--I'm totally impressed.

Especially not reading them in your native language

[myishi]

Ow come on, it's not that amazing. I've been studying english for more than half of my life, i use internet ALOT, all the movies are in english, all the anime with english subs.. so i got used to it

[Ruthful]

Hmmmm... I think it was 96 or 97. I had seen the DT books at stores but couldn't imagine an SK western. Plus, I hadn't been a big King reader yet. My friend and band mate had a shelf full of King and asked if I had read any of the DT series since he was super excited about the upcoming release of DT IV. After confessing I had not, he sent me home with the first three. It was a little tedious getting through The Gunslinger, but once I started in on DotT I was hooked. My biggest regret right now is not buying the hardcover Grant edition of WaG when it came out. Anyway, that puts me at about 25 or 26 when I first met Roland.

My experience is very similar, the only major differences being my age-I was in high school at the time, either as a sophomore or junior-and where I got a hold of the book, i.e. a library-I'm not sure if it was a regular branch of the BPL or my school library.

Read the original version of The Gunslinger-which I also had major issues with-then got reeled in by TDOTT.

[Matt]

Ow come on, it's not that amazing. I've been studying english for more than half of my life, i use internet ALOT, all the movies are in english, all the anime with english subs.. so i got used to it

Well, its amazing to me. But I always feel that way because it took me years to finish them as they were published.

Perhaps a fast read will always seem amazing to me.

[SON-OF-WAYNE]

I first read the gunslinger five years ago, I was twenty years young. To tell you the truth "The Gunslinger" was the first King book I ever read, Say true. Now im hooked. I finished The entire series aboout a year and a half ago with a long pause between the 6th and 7th book, I guess I just didnt want it to be over, thank ka for this site.

[Letti]

Ow come on, it's not that amazing. I've been studying english for more than half of my life, i use internet ALOT, all the movies are in english, all the anime with english subs.. so i got used to it

Oh, come on! It is aamzing.
I am an English teacher and my students would give their legs to have such knowledge as yours. And as Matt has said already... to read so much so quickly in another language... it's amazing.
You rock.

I first read the gunslinger five years ago, I was twenty years young. To tell you the truth "The Gunslinger" was the first King book I ever read, Say true. Now im hooked. I finished The entire series aboout a year and a half ago with a long pause between the 6th and 7th book, I guess I just didnt want it to be over, thank ka for this site.

Thank ka for such great members.

[myishi]

i got overrated lol
you have to know atleast two other languages in slovenia to even get a job
i bet you're awesome =D my goal is to become an english teacher ^^
i had the best teachers possible

[Jean]

I wish you would also learn Russian and French. Rissuan can't be too difficult after Slovene and Croatian, and French - after English and German.

[myishi]

Im planing to take Russian or Japanese in college

[LadyHitchhiker]

I was 13. So that was 15 years ago for me... I feel like I have grown up with them.

[JasKo]

I was in a bookstore around july 2007. Was going on vacation and wanted to find a book to read during the summer holidays. I love crime, so I was haning around in the "Crime" corner. The book "The Dark Tower" Gunslinger and The Drawing of the three, were misplaced, I read at the back of the books and found it really interesting. So I bought these 2 books and The Swarm.

I forgot to bring the books with me to my summer holiday in Bosnia, so I didnt start reading them before September now. I've just finished reading the three first books in Norwegian. Books 1-5 in English are in the mail towards my mailbox :-D I'll continue the story in English hoping I will catch the drift, hehe.

So to sum it up, I met Roland in summer 2007, when I was 21, got to know him in September 2007 in Norwegian and I will say goodbye to him hopefully around January 2008 in English! :-D

[Ruthful]

Aren't Slovenians the crazy folks who are always trying to set crazy records like most pushups done in midair while skyjumping over Victoria Falls, or most laps of the Danube done while sucker-punching a hippopotamus?

Why can't you guys just chill out and watch TV like the rest of us normal people?



Seriously though, mastering several languages is a pretty impressive feat, especially when you neeed to learn an entirely different alphabet to do so. I'm not even going to recount my pathetic effort at learning Latin.