![]() ![]() ![]() Sexual Content: Like the violence, this book is also very detailed with sexual content. It is implied that a father of several daughters regularly beats his children. Roland violently forces his gun between Sylvia’s legs to abort and remove the man in black’s child from her body. Blood and brains fly as the gunslinger kills a group of townspeople. In a bloody scene, Roland’s bird violently tears Cort’s face apart. Blood spurts from every opening in his body. Some instances include Jake remembering a car running over him, mushing his guts and squashing his genitals. ![]() Content Guide Violence: This book is very detailed with violence and gore. The Gunslinger also was recently produced as a movie in August 2017 with amazing reviews, attracting many people to Stephen King’s book series. ![]() King explains that he, “…played with the idea of trying a long romantic novel embodying the feel, if not the exact sense, of the Browning poem.” King started writing this novel in 1970 on a ream of bright green paper that he found at the library. The novel was inspired by Robert Browning’s poem “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” (1855), which King read as a sophomore at the University of Maine. He is willing to sacrifice all, even his own life. Genre: Fantasy/Western Fiction “The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed.” This story follows the hero, the gunslinger named Roland Deschain, as he follows the man in black for twelve years. ![]()
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