Song of Susannah pushed up to June 8, 2004 and The Dark Tower pushed up to Sept. 21st.
Stand back, as my head might explode.
Praise Arthur Eld!
Can’t wait!! Absolutely loved the latest one, and have been waiting litereally for years for the story to be over. I started reading The Gunslinger when it first came out, so its been a LONG time. I was thinking that King might not live to finish the story, or that he just wouldn’t do it when he announced his retirement. To me, this is his finest work.
-XT
Nice. Just finished ‘Wolves Of Calla’, and I’m anxious to read the two final volumes.
… I have pretty much written off The Dark Tower series as of the lobstrocities and Blaine The Train. I’m sorry, I love Stephen King as much as the rest of y’all, but I’ll stay with the classics, if you don’t mind.
There was a time I would have read his goddam grocery list if he’d published it, but now? Meh… Give me 'Salem’s Lot or The Stand any day. Loves me some Stevie King, but not this Listerine-drinkin’ influenced shit!
Quasi
Well, you are missing out IMHO, Quasimodem. I’ve read most of SK’s works, and to me, this is by far his best stuff. But if you don’t like it, you don’t like it. To each his own. 
As you read up to the Wasteland appearently (with Blain) you’ve read enough to really form an opinion, so no point trying to ‘convince’ you. Wizard and Glass was really a look back at Rolland’s early life, and Wolves pretty much just continues the story as they work their way to the Dark Tower.
-XT
Well, Quasi, all is can say is 
To me, the Dark Tower books are SK’s Magnum Opera. His own personal Subcreation. It resonates with me far more than any of his other works. And I have read all his readily available fiction.
But to each their own!
I was actually going to check on the release dates today. Couldn’t remember when they were coming out. I am looking forward to these almost as much I was the LOTR films. Maybe they will push them up again. Well, I guess you can hope in one hand…
I think a few years after the last is released someone should make these into movies. I think it would be a little ridiculous if they can’t make the story Stephen King considers to be his best, but they can make 6 Children of the Corns. 6! Last I read, he said he is slightly opposed to it now, because he doesn’t like the images of the actors burned into people’s minds when reading the books. I bet he would reconsider in a few years, though.
If they do decide to make them into a series of movies (god would THAT be something) I hope they are smart enough to do it like they did LotR. Basically shoot the whole thing at once, stick reasonably faithfully to the script, and put in the money into special effects that it deserves. If they did as good a job on it as they did on LotR it would be THE movie event of its time I think. God, I’d kill to see something like that!!
If King is the stumbling block, simply wait until he snuffs it in a few years. 
J/K btw, I like the guy. I’m betting that if someone came to him with something like the above he’d do it. Unfortunately for him, only the Stand miniseries has been good of all his books turned into movies IMO…usually they hack em up so bad I can’t tell what I’m watching. Did you catch Dream Catcher?? Gods. :rolleyes:
-XT
Sweet deal!
But these books would absolutely suck ass as movies. King’s books-to-movies are typically horrendous pieces of shit, simply because he writes novels, not screenplays. Can you imagine the boredom you’d experience in a theater as you watched 5 people stand around entranced by a rose? What the hell?
But munch, when SK’s books work as movies, they really work! “The Green Mile”, “Stand by Me”, “Shawshank Redemption”, “Delores Claiborne”, “Misery”! Come on, those were great!
But a lot of the other adaptations did really suck.
I thought The Stand mini series was pretty well done as well. Very close adaption from the book IMO.
Like I said, it COULD be a really great movie (well, series of movies…say one movie per book), if they did it like LotR and got a great cast together, and kept them together for the whole thing. Film all the movies over say a 2 year period, then just do the special effects each year for a release.
At any rate, can’t wait to find out what happens to Susan and her demon child…and whether or not Rolland gets to the Dark Tower…and what happens to him if he does. Will he become God? Can’t wait to find out!!
-XT