Kevin's Watch

I am going through my books, and have decided to pose the question to my watchmates...what is your favorite tower tie-in?

Mine is the Stand!

Yeah, I guess it's gotta be The Stand. I like Insomnia too though.

Say...is Eyes of the Dragon a DT tie-in? Or is the DT an EotD tie-in?

--A

I think this is going to be a no-brainer.

But I really enjoyed Insomnia as well.

'Salem's Lot all the way, man!


DW

OOOO! Salems Lot is good. Very Good. I was glad to see Callahan resurface in the Tower.

Eyes of the Dragon I think is a Tower tie in.

Insomnia is really good too. The Whole Patrick Danville thing was cool, but I'd like to know just how Danville found himself past the thundercrack lands in the first place. Maybe the comics will tell us.

Beorn is working is way through King's bibliography, pretty much in order of published date. However, I am skipping most novels that I know are tie-ins to DT, as I plan to have him read that series last.

So, he's read Salem's Lot, and The Stand: Complete and Uncut. I skipped Eyes of the Dragon, because my library called it a DT prequel in their description of it. He's currently working on It.

Any other related works I should skip until right before he begins the series?

--A

--A

I read recently that thee is going to be a third Jack Sawyer book that will take place entirely in the "territories", which as we know is really Roland-land. No actual date yet, but the stoery is plotted out so it is said.

Av, I've seen that flow chart before, but it makes no sense to me. If someone were to take that graphic, and list the books in order of how they should be read, what would the list be?

Guns, I'm not reading these books yet. With the move, I've had no reading time. Which are the Jack Sawyer books?

The Talisman and Black House are the Jack Sawyer books Menolly.

The Stand is my favorite King novel...(tho not my favorite King story)...

and so i guess that would be my favorite DT tie in...but i really LOVED
Insomnia too, and i really really loved Ted Brautigan from Hearts in Atlantis as well.

The Tailisman then (my second favorite tie-in) Black House!

Menolly wrote:Av, I've seen that flow chart before, but it makes no sense to me. If someone were to take that graphic, and list the books in order of how they should be read, what would the list be?

Guns, I'm not reading these books yet. With the move, I've had no reading time. Which are the Jack Sawyer books?

Thats not the order they should be read in, it only shows which Sk novels tie in with the DT novels and where.

I'm not sure there really is a 'correct'' order to read them.

Ah...OK.

So the 'Talisman' series is the Jack Sawyer books. I was going to save those until right before Beorn started the DT ones.

So far, except for The Dead Zone, which my librry seems to be unable to retrieve for the hold I have on it, and Eyes of the Dragon, Beorn has read all the novels in publishing date order up to The Tommyknockers. Although my library only has Thinner, The Regulators, and The Running Man by Bachman. Not bad for a couple of weeks reading.

The regulators in a "sort of tie in", for reasons I am not sure I should mention.

Menolly wrote:Av, I've seen that flow chart before, but it makes no sense to me. If someone were to take that graphic, and list the books in order of how they should be read, what would the list be?

Well, this is the order I recommended to you the last time this was discussed:

In an old thread, Avatar wrote:Eyes of the Dragon
DT I
DT II
DT III
The Stand
DT IV
'Salem's Lot
DT V
Low Men
DT VI
Insomnia
Everything's Eventual (title story and Little Sisters of Eulalia)
DT VII

Those are, I think, the most solid connections.

--A

I'd also whip in the Talisman and Black House Right after Hearts in Atlantis (Low Men).

Thanks guys!

I remember you had listed them before, Av. But I couldn't remember which thread they were in.

I've only read 'the stand', but I've just got hold of 'salems lot', so I'll be having a go at that sooner or later, the the post apocalypse theme is something I really enjoy though, so even if I read every DT tie in, 'the stand' would still most likely come out tops.


CN