The Gunslinger vs Wolves of the Calla: 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…

Wolves of the Calla Stephen King · 2003 ★★★★☆ 4.1 676 pages · ≈ 12 h 31 m · Moderate

“Tian was blessed (though few farmers would have used such a word) with three patches: River Field, where his family had grown rice since time out of mind; Roadside Field, where ka-Jaffords had grown sharproot, pumpkin, and corn for those same long years and generations; and Son of a Bitch, a thankless tract which mostly grew rocks, blisters, and busted hopes.”

[The Dark Tower][1] V After escaping the perilous wreckage of Blaine the insane Mono and eluding the evil clutches of the vindictive sorcerer Randall Flagg, Roland and his ka-tet find themselves back on the…