{"id":2906,"date":"2012-06-08T16:23:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T16:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimsay.blackglass.org\/2012\/06\/08\/review-the-gunslinger\/"},"modified":"2012-06-08T16:23:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T16:23:21","slug":"review-the-gunslinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/?p=2906","title":{"rendered":"review-the-gunslinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/43615%22\" style=&quot;float: left; padding-right: 20px&quot;><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/%22http:\/\/photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1309288354m\/43615.jpg%22\" border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;The Gunslinger&quot; \/><\/a><br \/>\n      <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/43615%22\">The Gunslinger<\/a> by <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/3389%22\">Stephen King<\/a><br \/>\n      My rating: <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/90173951%22\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      I know who the man in black, but I&#8217;m not telling.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, what a revelation.  I had completely forgotten everything about this book the first time I read it.  The second book is actually more memorable because of the horrifying first scene, yet this doesn&#8217;t make The Gunslinger, as the first in The Dark Tower series, any less fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a character study, and adventure story that isn&#8217;t afraid to be realistic with the choices Roland makes.  In typical King fashion, nothing occurs the way you expect, and I love that.  It also pisses me off, because seriously, why, Roland why?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great book.  Read if you haven&#8217;t, reread if you have it.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/90173951%22\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gunslinger by Stephen King My rating: 4 of 5 stars I know who the man in black, but I&#8217;m not telling. Seriously, what a revelation. I had completely forgotten everything about this book the first time I read it. The second book is actually more memorable because of the horrifying first scene, yet this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}