This is pretty much the synopsis of The Gunslinger by Steven King.
The book series is very long iirc. Is it worth reading?
Extremely worth reading. Especially if you’re a fan of his other works since he weaves aspects of them into this series. But be aware, book 4 is the best of the series, and 5 is the worst (the climax is built up for the whole book and lasts about 2 pages.)
Edit: Also, regardless of anything you have heard or see online, the never made a movie of the series. They did release a bag of shit that they filmed, but no actual movie has ever made it to theaters…
On his back all vows are made.
There ain’t no movie in Ba Sing Se.
Of all the books I’ve read, I cannot answer this question for The Gunslinger. If you like Stephen King you’ll almost certainly like the novels. But each one is very different from the others. LOL, I’m not sure there’s a fan who loves every book.
The first book is kind of weird but it’s creepy and cool, but the series really picks up book 2
I finished the first book and it was pretty “meh”.
In what ways does the 2nd book pickup?
Idk man it’s just way better. I thought the same thing about the first book, the second one is just better written and has more interesting ideas and storyline that wasn’t properly fleshed out in the gunslinger because king didn’t intend to write any sequels to the gunslinger when he wrote it. I didn’t care that much for The Gunslinger but the second book sucked me in.
Alrighty, might give that a try then, thanks!
Also there’s a couple characters that are introduced that are super fun and interesting.
The first one is something he was working on in college and eventually released. The second one was written after he learned to be Stephen king.
I liked it.
YES
the end sadly feels a bit quick and forced, but regarding the background (he wasn’t sure, if he could finish it), it’s absolutely awesome
Best thing he ever produced
Up to book 4, yes. Don’t read after that. It’s infuriating.
Wizard and Glass will break your heart anyway, no need to live on.
“True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring — once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome… except, of course, to those who share the kisses, who give and take the caresses while every sound and color of the world seems to deepen and brighten around them. As with any other strong drug, true first love is really only interesting to those who have become its prisoners. And, as is true of any other strong and addicting drug, true first love is dangerous.”
Worse:
“And now, all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended.”
What I wanted was a sequel to wizard and glass. What I got was whatever bullshit number 5 was.
Isn’t that the joke?
Yes, probably what this is about, but I’ve always found explaining the joke makes it funnier.
Jokes that need explaining are famously the funniest type
You could make the simplest of jokes and someone still wouldn’t get it. Lemmy is excellent at not getting jokes
fake: no it isn’t, i’m the evil wizard and this has definitely happened, i’m just not sure which one of the 17 guys that regularly show up this is
gay: I’m quite certain they all have feelings for me
Why do you call yourself evil?
Aren’t you just misunderstood?
Kids these days don’t understand the joy of being the evil wizard and knowing it.
what did this guy do to get banished to the desert the first time?
He impersonated me on the internet
Everyone else just misunderstands that evil isn’t bad, it’s just “live” spelled backwards.
I always knew life was evil. That’s why youvshould be an eilfilist
fake: excuse me I’m schmevil at worst and oh you’re describing yourself
gay: okay got us there
This is why you just shoot the fucker and don’t try and do a one liner.
To quote the great philosopher Tuco, “When you got to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.”
Or you do the one liner after the shot.
Which is what Tuco did.
Tight! Tight!
That’s what Betty did.
This sounds like a Dark Tower reference. Thankee, sai.
Diddachick?
Anon plays Banished, a medieval city builder
Can’t find another game quite like it tbh
Banished is fun. Rimworld is fun and addictive as crack.
BRB gonna replay
They’re very much not the same, but have you tried Rimworld or SAELIG?
I have played rimworld before, fair point. Haven’t heard of SAELIG but I’ll check it out!
Have you heard of Kenshi?
It is in the same vein, but has different focus points. It says it is an RPG, but it does have base building.
I bounced off kenshi so hard, I just don’t understand how to actually play lol
I have played Manor Lords and Foundation. They are at least heavily inspired by Banished
Never met anyone in the wild who plays banished o_O its my partners favorite game lmao
The thing about Stephen King is he doesn’t usually plan his stories. He just writes and goes where it takes him. Hence, they sometimes go to funny places.
FUCK, was this a Dark Tower spoiler??? I keep meaning to read past the first book.
Best series i have read, ever. Read it.
Doesn’t something similar to this happen in one of Jack Vance’s stories?
Yep, in The Eyes of the Overworld, we meet Cugel the Clever, literally the prototypical D&D rogue/thief. He steals from a wizard and is banished very far away for it. He eventually gets back to take revenge on the wizard and steps on a trap or something that banishes him even farther away the second time. His journey picks back up in Cugel’s Saga, a sequel novel, where he goes on more zany adventures and eventually makes it back again as I recall.
The first time, he gets banished by the wizard by a spell that summons a giant bird to pick him up and take him across the continent. The second time, he takes down the wizard and tries to cast the same spell that banished him, but fucks it up and the bird just grabs him again.
Also worth noting, the first time he’s flown across the world and dropped on a deserted beach, he heads in one direction, has a ton of adventures, and gets back. The second time he’s left on the same beach he shrugs his shoulders and heads off in the other direction.
Man, I love Jack Vance.
Thank you! I was going to write this if nobody else did, but it predates Stephen King by 30 years, was way more hilarious, and only took 2 books instead of 7 (or half a book if you read the Dying Earth Omnibus)
Sounds like the Dying earth series / cugels saga - fantastic if you like weird dark fantasy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cugel’s_Saga
Rowan Atkinson is Doctor Who | Comic Relief
Borrowed your plot
Ah, the o’l “send them to the desert” bit. Works every time.
