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offline pantalaimon from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2004-04-10 14:54 [#01137846]
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whats a Taheen? people can see one in the picture that I
thought was a rose on the building


 

offline tibbar from harrisburg, pa (United States) on 2004-04-10 14:55 [#01137847]
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i still need to read insomnia quick before dt6.

i heard theres soem guy in it named patrick who supposedly
"saves two men's lives, one of whome must live or the tower
will fall".


 

offline tibbar from harrisburg, pa (United States) on 2004-04-10 14:56 [#01137848]
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it is the rose.

a taheen is like a crow man thingy.
some sort of bird person creature.

i think its lame that they think its that.

it is so obviously a rose.


 

offline pantalaimon from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2004-04-10 15:03 [#01137850]
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not at all, look at the top of the rose and it looks like a
birds head. And its really obvious too, though i do think
its a rose, there is definately a resemblance of a birds
head there.


 

offline pantalaimon from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2004-04-10 15:06 [#01137852]
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there is a white circle with an eye, then a triangle below
(the beak). Once you see it you wont even see the rose. Its
doing my head in, every time i look at it now all i can see
is a damn bird!


 

offline pOgO from behind your belly button fluff on 2004-04-10 15:58 [#01137893]
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it is a rose, but it's a white one, and it looks like one of
the petals have fallen off, possibly why it's bleeding


 

offline tibbar from harrisburg, pa (United States) on 2004-04-10 19:21 [#01138080]
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looks to me like its bleeding its redness (or life force,
possibly?) out.

does this have to do with the turtle corp.?

i guess we'll see.


 

offline pOgO from behind your belly button fluff on 2004-04-10 19:23 [#01138081]
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There are 19 levels of the tower


 

offline pOgO from behind your belly button fluff on 2004-04-10 19:26 [#01138083]
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do you know what I'm dreading. The end

If it turns out that Stephen King is in the top level of the
tower and he's just like "Well your all just charecters in a
book I wrote" to make some sort of paradox I'm gonna go
round his hose and make him eat it


 

offline tibbar from harrisburg, pa (United States) on 2004-04-10 19:27 [#01138086]
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i wonder how much of book 7 is gonna be the tower itself.

we know the mia issue will be resolved in 6.
probably wrap up the new work stuff too.

vampires?
low men confrontation?

and what of patrick from insomnia's role (which has me VERY
curious)?

i hope the tower itself is a good long portion of book 7.
thatd be super duper


 

offline tibbar from harrisburg, pa (United States) on 2004-04-10 19:28 [#01138087]
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hahahahahaha

i know.
i dont think hed pull that with this particular series.

he knows better.


 

offline tibbar from harrisburg, pa (United States) on 2004-04-10 19:31 [#01138090]
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lets put it this way, i doubt that king's role in this is
anythign other than the architect form matrix.

flagg is the one im worried about.

and walter.... is he really dead?
someone in insomnia has a vision of him.

weirdness.

whatever the outcome, i think king has something totally
exhilerating lined up.


 

offline pOgO from behind your belly button fluff on 2004-04-10 19:37 [#01138091]
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if you think about it it could go anywhere, he could end up
tieing in all of his works, so there could be loads of new
roads for it to go down


 

offline tibbar from harrisburg, pa (United States) on 2004-04-10 19:41 [#01138095]
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dt7 u.s. cover


 

offline tibbar from harrisburg, pa (United States) on 2004-04-10 19:42 [#01138096]
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well, im fairly certain eddie and roland pay king a little
visit in dt6.... so he's not at the top of the tower.

but the brief publisher's description said the conclusion
will make your jaw drop.


 

offline AlfredPMcLovely from the country that will end up d (Turkmenistan) on 2004-04-10 20:32 [#01138125]
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That cover is awful! jeezuz


 

offline pOgO from behind your belly button fluff on 2004-04-10 20:43 [#01138129]
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now THIS is more like it :


 

offline AlfredPMcLovely from the country that will end up d (Turkmenistan) on 2004-04-10 20:46 [#01138131]
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Yes thats more like it, america gets shit covers. Compare
the harry potter us versions with the rest of the world's.


 

offline pantalaimon from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2004-04-11 05:47 [#01138258]
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what is it about american design? i'm studying graphic
design and I have to say a lot of US design is pretty crap.


 

offline tibbar from harrisburg, pa (United States) on 2004-04-11 06:18 [#01138270]
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yeh, isn't it just the worst?!?

i mean, COME ONNNNN!

panta: i think it's just that our commercial design is bad.
there's otns of great graphic artists in the u.s., the just
don't get as recognized as people in the uk and the rest of
europe.


 

offline pantalaimon from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2004-04-11 06:22 [#01138274]
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"think it's just that our commercial design is bad.
there's otns of great graphic artists in the u.s., the just

don't get as recognized as people in the uk and the rest of

europe."

i'm sure there is, i wasn't being too serious.

do you see the bird in the picture now?


 

offline tibbar from harrisburg, pa (United States) on 2004-04-11 06:24 [#01138276]
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if i squint and try real hard to stop seeing a rose.

;)


 

offline pantalaimon from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2004-04-11 06:33 [#01138280]
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"black thirteen, perre callahan's vampire story, the thing
with switching between worlds... MAN THIS IS SUPER
GOOD!!!!!!!!!"

I've almost finnished Wizard and Glass... just coming to the
climax on Reaping day. I thought Black 13 was in the Dark
Tower? I better hurry up and read Wolves... before June.


 

offline tibbar from harrisburg, pa (United States) on 2004-04-11 06:35 [#01138283]
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uh oh, reaping day is when crap gets off the hook!!!!!

yeh man, you gotta finish wolves so you have a little bit of
anticipation time before susanah.


 

offline pantalaimon from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2004-04-17 04:57 [#01146916]
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anyone see The Good, the Bad and the Ugly? which was a major
inspiration for the dark tower. Its out on a special edition
DVD here next week... worth getting?

After reading Wizard and Glass i'm in the mood for a good
western :)


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2004-04-17 05:07 [#01146919]
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instead of reading through the 175 prior posts, will someone
please tell me what this is all about?

thankyou,
mappatazee


 

offline pOgO from behind your belly button fluff on 2004-04-17 08:13 [#01147030]
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stephen king's dark tower series

Official site


 

offline Jarworski from The Grove (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-22 07:39 [#01201432]
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Bump for Pantalaimon, in case you didn't know Chapter 1 of
Song Of Susannah is available on King's official site. :)


 

offline pantalaimon from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-22 07:50 [#01201447]
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thanks but i still haven't finnished 'Wolves of the Calla'
yet, i'm about half way at the moment


 

offline glasse from Harrisburg (United States) on 2004-05-23 00:40 [#01202325]
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So does anyone have insights on the whole
Walter/Marten/Flagg etc. etc connection?

It seems to me they are at least extensions of the same
being, even if they were all born as different people. At
the same time I wouldn't say they are exactly the same
person, either. The whole legion idea seems to make sense.

Part of me feels King revising Gunslinger to clean things up
cheapens the whole thing, and part of me thinks it was a
good idea and understands why he did it. I am kind of torn
on this issue, heh. I remember things from the original
edition, where Walter says that He could not have given
Marten the vision he gave Roland, but then I remember King
'fixed' that. It is very frustrating and I wish King would
have remained bound to what he originally wrote and made
everything conform to that, since it was, after all, already
out there and the details had become a part of the way
people think about the story. It is like Jake and Roland
remembering two different ways that the past happened and
going nuts trying to reconcile them.


 

offline pantalaimon from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-25 15:55 [#01207023]
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release date has been put back to August 24th :(


 

offline Jarworski from The Grove (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-25 16:21 [#01207063]
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...

....

I'm devestated. Basically.


 

offline Jarworski from The Grove (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-25 16:24 [#01207066]
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I see the article you must be referring to, but this fucking
nerd proves it's already shipped! I'm going to
stand guard at my front door for the next two weeks anyway,
fuck it.


 

offline pantalaimon from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-25 16:42 [#01207076]
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i think its just the uk release date that has been put back,
any idea why?


 

offline Jarworski from The Grove (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-25 16:49 [#01207083]
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I'm at a loss... I'm just going to hope that Amazon ships it
when they said they would. If the sixth book is put back to
August then the Sept release of book seven is doubtful.


 

offline pantalaimon from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-26 16:36 [#01209203]
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bump


 

offline pantalaimon from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-27 14:49 [#01211066]
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is it really delayed or not? i thought it was coming out the
same time as the US one?


 

offline pantalaimon from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-28 11:20 [#01212502]
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now its changed back to June 8th, hope it stops like that!


 

offline pantalaimon from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2004-06-01 10:44 [#01217718]
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anyone getting this on the day its released? How long do you
think it wil take you to read it? :)

still trying to finnish Wolves... before next week.


 

offline Jarworski from The Grove (United Kingdom) on 2004-06-09 12:14 [#01231271]
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I got it yesterday, finished it just now after working all
day. I enjoyed it a lot, although it's not perhaps as epic
as I'd like. Well, it is, mainly in dialogue and
revelations, not plot. But fuck me there are some
surprises in this book. I'm so glad the last volume is only
a few months away.


 

offline pantalaimon from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2004-06-09 12:18 [#01231286]
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shit, you read that quick! I'm still reading "wolves..." at
the moment, near the end though. The artwork is amazing for
the new book, possibly my favourite in the series so far.
Anyone know who's doing illustrations for the last book?


 

offline Jarworski from The Grove (United Kingdom) on 2004-06-09 12:21 [#01231294]
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I believe it's the guy who did the illustrations for the
original Gunslinger (US edition). He's not bad, although the
style of the pics in the new book is fantastic, definitely.


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-06-09 12:21 [#01231296]
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Michael Whelan.


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-06-09 12:24 [#01231304]
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jesus what a ridiculous spoken message by King on the
website.


 

offline pantalaimon from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2004-06-27 06:09 [#01257663]
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have a look on the darktower.net website, the illustrations
for the last dark tower book are amazing!

anyone read the lastest book, what did you think of it?

*spoiler*

i'm just starting the latest book song of susannah and was
just flicking through it (couldnt resist it) and Stephen
King himself is in the story which is a bit weird, i hope
this is well done as it could cheapen the books if its not.

*spoiler*


 

offline Torley Wong on 2004-06-27 10:54 [#01257773]
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Yeah it is weird. Dark Tower is like the Unified Field
Theory of sorts of Stephen King books, and the guy who's
doing illustrations for the last book also did them for the
first book so it's very full circle-ish. King throws in so
many sideways obscure references it's hard to keep things
straight unless you've read everything he's done and are
familiar with a lot of Americana and stuff :)


 

offline JAroen from the pineal gland on 2004-06-27 11:12 [#01257783]
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that is what i love about him, everything seems to be a
coherent .. thing.

πανταλαιμο
;ν: i felt so cheated at the end of bk 5, he has to
come up with something really really well tought-out
thing to save it from mediocrity right now. ive got faith in
that but.. well itd be dissapointing because king's my
favourite writer and im in love with all the dark tower
stuff


 

offline Jarworski from The Grove (United Kingdom) on 2004-08-01 08:37 [#01292103]
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Chapter 1 of book 7 is now online at the official site. :)


 

offline pantalaimon from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2004-08-01 08:50 [#01292113]
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I just watched the music video 'Jolene' by Queen Adreena
which looks exactly how I would imagine a dark tower film
should look. Check it out if you can find it.


 

offline pantalaimon from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2004-09-16 14:32 [#01337151]
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so who's sitting in the dark tower? if its Stephen King i'm
going to kill myself


 


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