Without spoiling too much, Stephen King appears in the series himself. Two prequel stories are placed after the fourth book's extended flashback to make for an extended break from Roland's present day. Vice President Mike Pence is grilled by "60 Minutes" anchor Lesley Stahl over why President Trump bailed in the middle of their interview. Someone, or something, is using the evil technology of the Great Old Ones to destroy it. The Dark Tower saga has been long gestating in Hollywood,… This skit with a nude man makes a funny observation about those who refuse to wear masks. Enjoy your new account! Why isn't his turn on "Saturday Night Live" as the Democratic nominee landing? Steven Deschain sends the boys to the Outer Arc town of Hambry, but Roland and his tet-mates soon discover that Hambry is not a quiet backwater but the heart of Farson’s war-machine—an obliterating juggernaut which has its sights set on Gilead. It might be difficult to remember now, but there was a time around 2014 when Chris Pratt was a popular choice for Best Chris. I also vote for the stand if only because it's shorter and there are things in the series that reference occurrences in the Stand. Inspired in equal parts by Robert Browning’s poem, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,” J.R.R. If the connection between a story and "The Dark Tower" is less explicit — if a passing reference could easily be looked past or understood through cultural osmosis — then the book doesn't make the list. This ambitious entry in the "Watch Dogs" series aims to let you play as literally anyone you come across in the game. Discordia has been updated for the modern web, runs without Flash, and is playable in most modern browsers. Better yet, it'll only cost you $49.94 if you pre-order. At 59 years old and with a preexisting condition, Paralympic rower Angela Madsen had plenty to worry about as the coronavirus spread across the country. The Dark Tower comics follow the adventures and trials of Roland Deschain, son of Steven Deschain, dinh of Gilead. That still leaves the door open for King to revise other novels in the series, which he has publicly considered doing. This week, we've got Chris Pratt is the worst Chris, does this look like an appropriate father/son interaction to you?, Pope Francis holding things and Jeffrey Toobin's Zoom dick incident. Charlie Cooke brilliantly creates extraordinary sounds from seemingly mundane items. Located in the fey region of End-World, amid a sea of singing red roses, the Dark Tower is the nexus point of the time-space continuum. Cobbling together any kind of Stephen King reading list is difficult; he's too prolific and too fond of weaving together his stories. It's just revisions, re-releases and adaptations all the way down. It's one of the big appeals of the series that's hard to get across in a jacket-blurb or simple summary: King goes absolutely hog-wild with multiverse stuff and the metafictional implications raised by it all. Written from 36 years' worth of diaries, McConaughey's autobiography, "Greenlights," comes in the actor's 50th year of life. Here's what the reviews say. For everybody else, it might prove a little confusing. Anywhere And On Any Device. He's an indisputable, super-influential icon — and if the leap to the silver screen (the movie is in theaters today) has you curious about King's "The Dark Tower," you should know that there's more to the series than books with those words in the title. Explicit self-inserts are a common enough trope. ​Welcome to Fan Service, a guide to engaging with gargantuan, lore-heavy franchises. A decade ago, "Tower junkies" and "constant readers" were told that an adaptation was taking shape under J.J. Abrams' care (this was before he got pulled into "Star Wars," of course).