After what seems like forever, I have finally finished The Gunslinger. Kevin put me onto the book shortly after I finished The Fall of Reach. Wow, almost three full months to finish a 231-page book. That’s just sad, considering the big print and large margins of each page.

This is my first novel by Steven King, and I’m sure it won’t be the last. I intend on completing this series, so my next purchase will be The Drawing of the Three. I chose not to continue with the Halo series because I’ve been told that the second novel is very weak.

While reading this book, I found myself gripped by every story the gunslinger told about his past, but was bored to tears with the details of his quest for the man in black. I eagerly awaited the next story he would tell to whomever would listen, be it a lonely farmer in a corn field or a boy stranded in the middle of the desert. Every story he told recollecting his past built up the character of the gunslinger and endeared me to him. However, if he spoke about the devil grass that grew in the desert one more time, I would have tossed the book out of the window of the bus that I take to work and back.

I didn’t harass Nadia with one single detail of the story.