Returning to the Tower I: The Gunslinger

I first read The Dark Tower when it was released in 2004. A friend of mine started me on my first trip to the Tower a year prior, and by the time book VII dropped in 2004, I was ready to buy it in hard copy the week it was released. 21 years later, my congealed guilt from hanging out over in r/TheDarkTower and r/darktower (where many Tower junkies/constant readers have made numerous trips) was activated after I finished watching season 1 of Welcome to Derry.

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On Alan Wake - the bulleted version

I finished Alan Wake the same day I finished Portal 2. That was unfortunate for Alan Wake, but extremely good for helping me think through the construction of narrative in linear games. Spoiler averse post continued after the jump . . .

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