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Stephen King, King, Stephen: The Gunslinger (Paperback, 1982, New American Library) 4 stars

This heroic fantasy is set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace that …

Not the most exciting of beginnings

3 stars

This book feels like a prologue to The Drawing of the Three and the epic to follow. I'll be honest: I'm not certain readers would be missing much if they skipped The Gunslinger entirely and relied solely on "The Argument" at the beginning of The Drawing of the Three to catch them up 🤷‍♂️