58: The Dark Tower (Overview)

Kingslingers | A Dark Tower Podcast

Doof! Media

Darktower, Stephenking, Books, Arts

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Summary

This week Scott and Matt take one final look back at the final book of The Dark Tower series. We're chatting all about book 7: The Dark Tower as well as answering your mailbag questions

Next week, we'll be joined by a special guest to chat all about the 7 book series as a whole! In two weeks we begin The Wind Through the Keyhole

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0:00.0	Long days, pleasant nights, and welcome to Kingslingers, a doof media podcast journeying through Stephen King's Dark Tower series.
0:23.7	My name is Constant Reader Scott Daly.
0:25.5	And I'm Constant Reader, Matt Freeman.
0:27.3	Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
0:28.8	You think just because you spent like an entire year reading, analyzing, and discussing Stephen King in great detail, You could just call yourself a constant reader.
0:41.0	Yes.
0:42.4	Yeah, okay. This week on the show, we're taking one final look at the final book in the Dark Tower series.
0:48.4	This is our overview episode for The Dark Tower. We're going to do a few things on this episode.
0:53.0	We're going to kind of look back at the quotes, the beginning of the book, and see what we think about those now that we
0:58.2	finished the series. We're just going to take a look at that ending again and talk about that some
1:02.3	more. Maybe see, now that you've gotten to sit with it for a little while, Matt, if your opinions
1:06.9	on any of the stuff have changed a bit. And we're going to talk about the book overall, the structure of the book, how we feel about what this book as a whole was. I think,
1:14.4	I think these are good episodes because sometimes we get so wrapped up in the trees that we got to
1:19.6	take one look at that forest, you know? I think that's absolutely true, especially considering
1:24.4	that heading into this conversation, I had to look at the Wikipedia article on
1:28.1	the book, The Dark Tower, just to be like, what happened in this book? Yeah, I mean, we've been on
1:35.2	this book since Thanksgiving of last year. That's how long we've been talking about book seven.
1:40.7	So it's a long book. We spent many, many, many many weeks on it and i think it's good to just
1:45.5	kind of take a look back at it and see what we want to see um so we're going to do that and then we've got
1:51.1	all your mailback questions to go through we got a ton of questions from you guys so we're going to
1:55.1	take the time and go through as many of those as we can i will say um if you've looked at our schedule next week, we are not moving right on
2:02.6	to the win through the keyhole. Next week, we're going to do a whole big entire series overview
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