L'ultimo cavaliere. La torre nera

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Published June 13, 2017 by Sperling & Kupfer.

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978-88-6836-366-6
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[The Dark Tower][1] I

The opening chapter in the epic Dark Tower series. Roland, the last gunslinger, in a world where time has moved on, pursues his nemesis, The Man in Black, across a desert. Roland's ultimate goal is the Dark Tower, the nexus of all universes. This mysterious icon's power is failing, threatening everything in existence.

The five stories that constitute the novel were originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction:

"The Gunslinger" (October 1978) "The Way Station" (April 1980) "The Oracle and the Mountains" (February 1981) "The Slow Mutants" (July 1981) "The Gunslinger and the Dark Man" (November 1981) ([source][2])

[1]: openlibrary.org/works/OL81600W/The_Dark_Tower_1-7 [2]: stephenking.com/library/novel/dark_tower_the_gunslinger_the.html

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Review of 'The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I definitely enjoyed this book, but it is also definitely the start of a saga. Throughout the whole novel there's so, so many hints of a larger world, and bursts of rapid-fire world building. The world King is creating is strange and intriguing enough that I want to continue with this series just to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. There are also a fair few Stephen King-isms in here, to be sure, though I'm told not as many as the later entries. Really, it's a matter of how much you can tolerate the particular style. I'm writing this a long time after I read it so I apologize for the vagueness.

L'ultimo cavaliere

3 stars

L'ultimo cavaliere è il primo romanzo di Stephen King che leggo: mi sembrava doveroso visto che è un autore così importante. Devo dire che l'inizio non mi colpita particolarmente: sì, ha un'ambientazione molto particolare e un protagonista altrettanto intrigante, ma mi è sembrato mancasse qualcosa. Probabilmente il fatto che sia un'opera giovanile ha il suo peso.

Ci sono, infatti, molti passaggi efficaci circondati da parti più deboli e meno incisive, parti che nemmeno le cinquanta cartelle aggiunte dall'autore in questa edizione sono riuscite a rafforzare.

Tuttavia, il mio giudizio complessivo sul romanzo è positivo perché le ultime pagine fanno davvero ben sperare per i volumi successivi (in tutto sette). Penso che L'ultimo cavaliere risenta anche della sindrome da “primo libro”: incuriosisce abbastanza da desiderare di continuare la serie, ma non spicca per eccellenza (che, però, mi aspetto nei romanzi successivi).

Un ultimo appunto. Certo che Tolkien, tra le altre cose, …

I don't get why people like this

2 stars

People say this is a good book and series but I can't agree to that. It's just chaotic and doesn't make any sense, the writing seems overly dramatic and "flowery", meaning he describes things so weird, with weird details and weird metaphors. I couldn't even read it to the end and stopped at like 80 or 90%. I have no interest in reading the other novels in the series, it's just not my type of writing I guess. I never liked any Stephen King books until this one and I read a bunch now. It's not getting any better, maybe I should just give up on trying to like his writing.

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