aja’s Reviews > The Gunslinger > Status Update

love love love the sense of impending and inevitable doom in this section, a kind of sword of damocles of cosmic scope. we cannot stop it, we cannot change it. things happen this was because there is no other way for things to be. aiat.

i was half dreading and half hoping i'd still like this, and well. what can i say. i'm a sucker for this kind of strange melange of genres: science fiction, fantasy, horror, the blend of pulpy westerns and arthurian grandeur with a multiverse our characters are painfully aware of, the dream-like state of it all. it would be even better if stephen king knew how to be even VAGUELY normal about women

That, of course, made him think of Cort again. Cort was dead. They were all dead, except for him. The world had moved on. The gunslinger shouldered his gunna and moved on with it.

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.