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The Dark Tower I, the first book of the Dark Tower series, was published in 1982. Stephen King was born in 1949 and has written more than 40 novels, many of which have been adapted into movies and television series.
Storyline:
In the far northwest corner of the United States, a small town exists where the folk believe in things that are impossible to prove, or so they say. In this town, the local clock tower is topped with a huge, grey, triangular number board, the three sides of which are given as 3:11:33. One day, when the people of this town are fast asleep, their almost-imperceptible timepiece starts to beep its one-armed warning. Then a plane appears out of the dark sky and shoots across the town.
'The Dark Tower', the book that follows, is the first of a unique and terrifying series by Stephen King. It is the only one of his novels to have been adapted into a film.
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This audiobook contains no explicit or implicit violence and can be listened to by children. The narrator has said he would like to read The Dark Tower for his children.
Stephen King has written only three books. All three are huge, genre-bending novels, but none has been more derided or more misunderstood than 'The Dark Tower', the first novel of his eight-book series. You know, of course, that it was popular with critics. But so what? Stephen King, the man, loved it. Or said he did.
What made 'The Dark Tower' so controversial? It was the subject matter. It was, in the time of its original release, the first of Stephen King's science fiction novels, and many found the use of magic in such a serious, serious work as a threat to reason. 'The Dark Tower' has been called everything from childish to cruel.
'The Dark Tower' is the first of the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. It takes place in a far northwest corner of the United States. The three sides of the clock tower on the town's highest point are given as 3:11:33. The people of this town live by beliefs that are impossible to prove or disprove, or
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