My sister got me hooked on the Dark Tower series by Steven King just recently, and sent these vintage pix of her vision of Roland, the hero/gunslinger. She's convinced young Clint would be the perfect cast [and it may have been the author's as well].
I may have to Netflix the old spaghetti Westerns, which I can't believe I've never seen.
Such a recognizable face. I'm glad I'd already met Roland before she put this image in my head though. It's always good to have your own characters in your mind; sadly, I can't remember my pre-Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings mental images, though. Not that I'm complaining about his choices.
I'm anxiously waiting for the Library to get me my next installments... then I'm sure I'll check out of any sort of social life and disappear. Not that that is very different from my usual modus operandi.
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oh oh oh ! we have some of those Clint Eastwood movies . . . the good the bad the ugly, outlaw josey wales, we might even have hang 'em high . . and perhaps another-
he is one of my fav. actors in the westerns :)
The twin loves him... and I think I can see why!
shiver. goosebumps. even sort of looks like sting.
emmett, you ought to take this series on the road with you! stephen king is not all horror... i wouldn't read these if they were super scary. i think you'll dig 'em.
CS Lewis was purported to have been writing a novel entitled "The Dark Tower", sort of time travel science-fiction. I looked it up here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_%281977_novel%29
Who knows how correct that is.
Just an interesting coincidence, although SK's "Eddie" says, "Coincidence has been cancelled!"
postscript: a week ago I woke up with bad allergies and stayed home. I had the last remaining book in the series to go, and after a marathon 15 hour arm-numbing page-turning indulgence, I bid Roland adieu. GREAT books! Thanks, Kerr & Chuck!
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