The Dark Tower, Book 1: The Gunslinger- Chapter 2, Parts 8-13 (Patreon)

Hey there Patrons! I'm getting to this late tonight, but hopefully that just means lots more for you to listen to over the weekend. Dentist trips are really cramping my style lately. :( 

I'm really baffled by the tone that these chapters (or parts, or whatever) take after everything feeling so distinctly post-apocalyptic/Western. I mean, they're basically in Gondor once we go into the flashback, but they have guns instead of swords and it's a lot more brutal and less elegant. I thought that  I knew what the tone of the book was and I got thrown off when we were in Tull, then thrown again when we meet the boy, and now i'm being thrown off all over again. 

He's apparently a decent guy that's just not the brightest, but he's doing his best in a fucked up situation that I'm sure I will learn more about...eventually? Maybe? I honestly don't even know that whatever he's got in his past actually matters, I'm fine with it being "mysterious wronged man chases mysterious bad guy" and then finding things out later on. Mostly I want to see how the fight goes down between a Gunslinger and a Sorcerer, but since Roland says that he just wants to ask the Man In Black something, I don't know that I will ever really get to see a real fight between these two. 

I hope that you enjoy the episode, and I will see you shortly with The Wire!