The Dark Tower - Blog Posts

"One might take the tip of the pencil and magnify it. One reaches the point where a stunning realization strikes home: The pencil tip is not solid; it is composed of atoms which whirl and revolve like a trillion demon planets. What seems solid to us is actually only a loose net held together by gravity. Viewed at their actual size, the distances between these atoms might become league, gulfs, aeons. The atoms themselves are composed of nuclei and revolving protons and electrons. One may step down further to subatomic particles. And then to what? Tachyons? Nothing? Of course not. Everything in the universe denies nothing; to suggest an ending is the one absurdity."

- Stephen King, The Gunslinger

I think my biggest canon event is when my dad read me the first and half of the second books from the dark tower series when I was in fourth grade before deciding hey maybe this is a little two adult for you. Like this genuinely changed me a lot as a person I would be very different if this didn’t happen

We live in a world where the film adaptation of The Hobbit is nine hours long and the film adaptation of The Dark Tower barely clears ninety minutes. Something has gone terribly wrong.