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PostThe Gunslinger by Stephen King

Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 11:46 am
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See if you can guess the author and book this opener comes from:

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

If you're stuck, try the included link to Amazon.
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Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 1:02 pm
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The first Dark Tower book, Gunslinger, by Stephen King.
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Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 7:52 pm
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The Gunslinger by Stephen King is correct! I've just ordered this book on audio. I heard that a revised edition has recently been released.
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Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:33 pm
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Yeah. It's really quite good. I'd recommend it; the rest of the series as well. My personal favorite is the fourth one of the series, Wizard and Glass, although I'd expect that you won't care styalistically for that one.
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Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 9:18 am
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Well, we'll see. The audio book is in at the library.
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Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 12:46 pm
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Evidentally King really liked the person who did his audio-books (in both a personal and professional way). Unfortunately he got into a terrible car accident... either before or after... working on the fifth book (Wolves of the Calla), so somebody else does the last couple. He suffered extensive brain-damage and, I think, is catatonic or close-enough to it. All proceeds from the Wolves of the Calla Audio-book (and maybe others, I don't quite remember) go to a charity aimed at assisting disabled and injurred authors.
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Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 1:29 pm
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Have you ever listened to one of the audiobooks?
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Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 3:18 pm
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No. But it was in the afterword of Wolves of the Calla, at least in the Hard-Cover.
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:09 pm
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I don't read anything in print, anymore, if it's available on audio. Print reading just tries my patience unless the book is exemplary.
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 3:04 pm
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Really?

Huh.

I started The Hobbit on CD today. Much preferable to the radio. As far as audio books goes, it was either that or some of my dad's historical books, and I was in the mood for a fictitious narrative.
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 4:16 pm
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I read so slowly that print reading seems to take forever. I can get a good audiobook done with in a week or less.
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 4:40 pm
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My reading speed varies greatly; not just from work to work or author to author, but even within a given body of text. There's never any clear indication of how long something will take me to read, because that depends so exclusively on the style in which it's written, the characters involved, the subject its based upon, the plot it follows, its complexity (as in how much and carefully I need to pay attention) and even a number of outside factors (such as other stimuli, sleep deprevation, etc...).
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 4:51 pm
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What I do know, however, is that I invariably read faster than the lethargic pacing of the audio-readers.
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Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 12:23 pm
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I don't necessarily read any faster than an audio-reader, unless I'm skimming.
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