The Gunslinger vs The Napoleon of Notting Hill: Which Should You Read?

The Gunslinger Stephen King · 1976 ★★★★☆ 4.1 296 pages · ≈ 5 h 29 m · Moderate

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”

[The Dark Tower][1] I The Gunslinger is a dark-fantasy by American author Stephen King. It is the first volume in the Dark Tower series. The Gunslinger was first published in 1982 as a fix-up novel, joining five short…

The Napoleon of Notting Hill Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1904 ★★★★☆ 3.8 150 pages · ≈ 2 h 47 m · Challenging

A witty and surreal novel of the future. In a rather dull stuck-in-a-rut future, a prankster chosen randomly to be King of England revives the old ways and inadvertently arouses romantic patriotism and civil war…