Friday Recommends #8

Friday Recommends is a weekly meme hosted by Pen to Paper. This a weekly book blog hop where we as bloggers choose a book that we have read and recommend it to our fellow bloggers. We can then visit each others blogs to see what other bloggers recommend and find new books to add to our TBR list. Hopefully we all will have new followers from visiting each blog on the linky list.

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• Pick a book that you've read, and have enjoyed enough to recommend to other readers. It can be a book you've read recently, or a book you read years ago - it's up to you - but make sure you tell us why you love the book (like a mini review). You make the post as long or as short as you like.
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My Recommend for this week:

The Gunslinger
(The Dark Tower #1)
by Stephen King
Hardcover, 231 pages
Published June 23rd 2003
by Viking Adult
(first published June 10th 1982)

Goodreads synopsis:

Beginning with a short story appearing in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1978, the publication of Stephen King's epic work of fantasy -- what he considers to be a single long novel and his magnum opus -- has spanned a quarter of a century.

Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, The Dark Tower series is King's most visionary feat of story telling, a magical mix of science fiction, fantasy, and horror that may well be his crowning achievement.

Book I

In The Gunslinger (originally published in 1982), King introduces his most enigmatic hero, Roland Deschain of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting, solitary figure at first, on a mysterious quest through a desolate world that eerily mirrors our own. Pursuing the man in black, an evil being who can bring the dead back to life, Roland is a good man who seems to leave nothing but death in his wake.

This new edition of The Gunslinger has been revised and expanded throughout by King, with new story material, in addition to a new introduction and foreword. It also includes four full-color illustrations in the hardcover and trade paperback formats.

My Thoughts

Stephen King has always been my favorite writer. He has one imagination and I love it. The Dark Tower series is some of my favorite books of Stephens King's. I love that when writing Stephen King always has a deeper meaning in his books than just the story plot itself. I liked Roland and all of his friends especially Eddie and Susannah. I really liked following Roland, Eddie and Susannah on their journey to The Dark Tower. I was really sad when I read the last book and I knew there would be no more journeys with Roland.

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