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I got the Dark Tower!!!

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re: I got the Dark Tower!!!

Postby carol » April 16th, 2006, 9:10 pm

I felt the darkness of TDT had more in kin with Stephen Donaldson's work, which I could not read. It had a bleak, dark, negative, destructive quality.

With the main character as the source of evil and destruction to others, I could not continue to read it. If Lewis wrote TDT, and had finished it, I wonder if I would have read the whole book.

Jo wonders who was homosexual in TDT. Nobody. It's this action the protagonist does of pumping his "horn" into people, it has a degree of sexual overtone that is not normally found in Lewis' writing. If it was written by Lewis, my guess is that he decided it was going in a direction that would not be helpful, no matter what sort of redemption was intended later in the story.

In ALL Lewis' other post-conversion work, he uses protagonists who can be called heroes, not anti-heroes. Maybe it is my distaste for anti-hero literature that has most fuelled my distrust in this manuscript.
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re: I got the Dark Tower!!!

Postby Summer » April 16th, 2006, 9:23 pm

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Re: re: I got the Dark Tower!!!

Postby Stanley Anderson » April 16th, 2006, 9:58 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Re: re: I got the Dark Tower!!!

Postby Theo » April 16th, 2006, 11:48 pm

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re: I got the Dark Tower!!!

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re: I got the Dark Tower!!!

Postby WolfVanZandt » August 4th, 2006, 6:48 am

One common thread in all of Lewis' fictional works that is also in TDT is his disillusionment with modern academia.

As for Stephen King's Dark Tower series - it turns out that almost all of his works are about doors into parallel worlds. He even mentions Narnia in the last of the Dark Tower books - so it's obvious that there's some influence, but "windows on other worlds" is a common concept in modern science fiction and fantasy, so I don't know how much he was influenced by Lewis.
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