![]() The spice in this tired sauce, however, is pure King-fantastic and grandiose. ![]() There's the gunslinger of the title, tall, strong and silent, and his evil nemesis, "the man in black" there's the gunslinger's quest to track down and slay that villain and there are the dust-swept towns he rides through, the lost boy he adopts as a sidekick, and the saloon-keeping wench he beds. Warmed-over sauce from Sergio Leone's classic spaghetti-western films is splashed all over this doughy tale. King fans will find little to celebrate, however, in the derivative portentousness of this first volume in a threatened 3000-page epic western set in a blighted future world. ![]() ![]() Begun by King while at college in 1970 serialized episodically in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1978-1981 printed in limited-editon hardcover, 1982: this King novelty at last achieves mass publication. ![]()
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