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What are beta readers?
Fox:
--- Quote from: El Diablo on October 13, 2008, 02:08:32 AM ---real quick look up
1975 was his first book salems lot
The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger (1982)
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three (1987)
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands (1991)
(six fricking year hiatus)
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass (1997)
(accident)
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla (2003)
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah (2004)
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (2004)
So I was wrong about the accident stopping production, we had a six year wait after the cliffhanger for whatever reason.
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Well there you go- thats spread out over nearly twenty years.
I thought King mentioned the Gunslinger as one of his earliest works, even though he didn't publish it first. Maybe I'm wrong, I haven't read the series, or anything about King since I finished the Dark Tower.
El Diablo:
Try living thru those 20 years as your favorite author takes a vacation for six years after a cliffhanger.
Fox:
--- Quote from: El Diablo on October 13, 2008, 02:20:18 AM ---Try living thru those 20 years as your favorite author takes a vacation for six years after a cliffhanger.
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Admittedly I wasn't there for the entire 20 years, because I'm not even that old yet. But I was there for the six year break between WIzard's Glass and Wolves of the Calla.
Anyway, my point was JB doesn't, or at leas hasn't, take several year long breaks.
And I would love to be a beta reader for him.
El Diablo:
Good for you.
Me? I'l wait till I get he whole book and re-read it as a whole a few times.
Altho, I did learn one thing about the JB books. I have to slow down and actually pay attention, because I missed details that actually incorporate to his endgasm.
Rereading fool moon right now.
jeno:
:::waves hand around::: Pick me, pick me, pick me!!!
and yes, I am totally that girl who answers everything in class. But I try and make up for it by hiding in the back row. ;D
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