{"id":17,"date":"2003-07-15T12:51:44","date_gmt":"2003-07-15T19:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2019-01-07T22:07:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T22:07:04","slug":"long-live-the-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/15\/long-live-the-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Live The King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tower draws nearer! This past Sunday I read a new introduction to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three<\/span> while in a Costco of all places. Stephen King wrote in it about how he wanted to create a Tolkien-like saga in a Sergio Leone movie landscape (think <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Lord of the Rings<\/span> set in &#8220;The Good, The Bad &amp; the Ugly&#8221;) and I immediately and gleefully starting thinking, &#8220;Yes! I knew it! I knew it!&#8221; He wrote about what motivated him, way back when, to write this series and what is driving him now to finish it. Yes, finish it. Over the next year and a half, expect bold new things from Mr. King!<\/p>\n<p>First things first &#8211; Books V, VI and VII of the Dark Tower series have been named and slated for delivery. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla <\/span>will arrive in stores on November 5th, 2003. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah<\/span>, will arrive in store in the Summer of 2004 and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Dark Tower VII, The Dark Tower<\/span>, will arrive in November, 2004. It also seems that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger <\/span>has been updated to make it more in-line with the other books. Supposedly there is now 10% more content than the previous edition. Speaking of previous editions, new introductions have been written for all the first four books.<\/p>\n<p>Second, at Stephen King&#8217;s web site there is a section completely devoted to the Dark Tower. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevensquared.com\/blog\/archives\/%EF%BF%BDhttp:\/\/www.stephenking.com\/DarkTower\/%EF%BF%BD\">here<\/a> to go check out either a short<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenking.com\/DarkTower\/flash_movie.html\"> flash movie<\/a> or enter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenking.com\/DarkTower\/flash_index.html\">the site <\/a>itself. Overall, it&#8217;s a really well done flash site &#8211; definitely one deserving to be associated with <em>The Dark Tower<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Third, I learned from George about <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/booksearch\/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=2XLP5BSHM6&amp;isbn=0743252071&amp;itm=1\">this book<\/a> entitled <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Dark Tower: A Concordance, Volume 1<\/span>. It is a comprehensive handbook for all things Mid-World (characters, high speech phrases, etc) from the first four books. Volume 2, published when Dark Tower V comes out this November, will cover the last three books. While my reading load is currently backed up by a couple of books, I will need to buy this ASAP. I think pretty soon I&#8217;m going to need a new bookcase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tower draws nearer! This past Sunday I read a new introduction to The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three while in a Costco of all places. 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