Another part I'm Chris Stewart and welcome to the Ampour Podcast, now due to unforeseen

staff shortages we lost a few this week to an unexpected zombie attack, I'm only joined

by two colleagues, two, just two.

So say hello to Ampour Online's editor in chief, a man who despite being arguably Ampour's

biggest fan of fantasy novels and that's saying something when the hell and the horrors

on our staff, he is not read Stephen King's Dark Tower series, now we had this discussion

yesterday James Dyer, should we have it again without swearing?

You're still wrong, you're wrong, I insist you cannot class the Dark Tower, why not

as a fantasy series?

Have you read it?

I have not read it, but I will tell you why, because in my reading around the subject

I believe you'll find it is an amalgamation of genres involving science fiction, fantasy

horror and indeed Western, therefore cannot be construed as strictly speaking a fantasy series.

You're an idiot, have you also read the eyes of the dragon?

Kings, I need to be honest, I didn't finish it, I was quite young at the time, I did read

the Green Mile and weirdly Delora's Clayborn, I've read that, which is perhaps not choice,

but I'm not a huge Stephen King fan, I think he's a fantastic writer, but I find him

quite, I'm not impenetrable, but he's not the fastest pace writer, so would you call

Naomi Novig's Temerera series, not fantasy, because it has elements of Nepalian...

It's historical fantasy, so it's a branch of some fantasy, but what I'm saying is that

the Dark Tower is sort of pan-john or post-john or, if you will, so while it incorporates

fantasy elements you can't really, class is a pure fantasy series, that said I do rather

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