This is a book club episode. In it, Travis and Amanda will discuss and analyze the first half of The Gunslinger by Stephen King. You should expect full “spoilers,” discussions of rhetorical elements, and celebrations / critiques of style and substance.
From the cover: “Over three decades ago, Stephen King introduced readers to the extraordinarily compelling and mysterious Roland Deschain. Roland is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, a landscape strewn with the wreckage of civility, he tracks the man in black, encounters an enticing woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with a boy from New York named Jake. both fiercely realistic and eerily dreamlike, this is the first book in what is perhaps the greatest odyssey Stephen King has ever written.”