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	Avaunt Thee, Recreant Cyborg! - New York Times
		The emphasis here is on Roland's long trek across the blasted landscapes of his world, filled with "death and murder and madness," in an attempt to reach the enigmatic Dark Tower, rather than on any single contest with some sort of resilient monster.
		King's Roland is a laconic, updated version of a knight-errant, representative of "the civilizing forces that kept people from killing each other enough of the time to allow some sort of progress," who travels with a pistol rather than a sword.
		Roland recruits his companions on the journey from modern Manhattan; he is able to manipulate "doors" that allow him to enter and leave our world, taking those he chooses with him.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CEED8173BF93AA1575AC0A967958260 (365 words)

	The SF Site: Climbing the Tower Part Two: The Drawing of the Three
		Roland's power to "draw" turns out to be an unconscious ability to conjure inter-dimensional portals, or "doors" through which Roland is able to make contact with humans in our world, each one at a different temporal point.
		When Roland opens the door, he see the Earth from thousands of feet in the air, and panics before realizing that this is the ground viewed from the interior of a flying machine (an airplane), through the eyes of another entity.
		There is still a minor gulf between Roland's phrases here, and the catchy argot he adopts by the fourth book (which circles around to the revisions in the first), and there are also a few factual details at odds with later decisions, but they're minor things having to do with names and locations.
	www.sfsite.com /columns/climbing03.htm (1771 words)

	The SF Site: Climbing the Tower Part One: The Gunslinger (2003)
		We are told enough of Roland's adolescence to suppose that, vamping off the Round Table motif of Arthurian legend, a gunslinger's purpose is to "uphold love and light." Roland's world has soured, starting as far as we know when he was very young.
		Roland is pursuing the man in fl because he believes that at the center of time and space exists a tower, a great fl pylon that is somehow also the linchpin of reality, a bolt connecting all possible realities and times.
		Roland is a Kantian agent, duty-bound, whose physical body is locked within tortured landscapes, possibly of his own creation, yet whose will or ka (an ancient Egyptian term meaning "life force") operates outside time -- in the realm of the Tower.
	www.sfsite.com /columns/climbing02.htm (1938 words)

	Will Napier - Journalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Roland of Gilead displays the stoicism, charisma, and deadly skills of the Man With No Name portrayed by Clint Eastwood in the Spaghetti Westerns.
		Roland’s backdrop however is a fantastic landscape that sees no borders of time and space.
		The journey to the Dark Tower is about Roland’s desire, his certainty that reaching the tower is in some way his destiny, just as King’s intention in embarking on the series is to see Roland reach the final book.
	home.earthlink.net /~will-napier/darktower.htm (1125 words)

	Roland of Gilead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Roland's archnemesis is none other than Randall Flagg, a villain prevalent in many of King's works.
		Roland follows "ka", a variant of fate that is similar to other karmic powers such as the Force in the Star Wars universe.
		Roland's quest is to reach The Dark Tower at all costs, whether to simply climb to its top, rule it, or Even be the one to destroy it thereby destroying all the worlds that seemingly yield to its axis.
	roland-of-gilead.iqnaut.net (307 words)

	THE GUNSLINGER by STEPHEN KING - BOOK HELP WEB REVIEW
		You might surmise that Roland's world is the afterlife or even heaven.
		Roland's character is not fully developed in this book and is decidedly not likeable.
		Throughout the books, phrases and words that are within Roland's vocabulary are used frequently.while they may not be directly translatable, they are easily understood.
	www.bookhelpweb.com /authors/king/0452284694.htm (479 words)

	Jim on the Web - Review of King's The Drawing of the Three
		Roland soon finds out he is not really there, he is in the mind of someone who looks down from the window of an airplane.
		But when the dust settles and they travel in Roland's world towards the second door, Eddie's addiction, his sense of being lost and homesick, and the love he is growing for this odd person, can only result in a fierce inner conflict.
		Roland's quest is too big for him alone, and the force that steers him towards the Dark Tower gives him companions.
	jim-on-the-web.com /en/timeoff/books/king-drawingofthree.html (566 words)

	Stephen King The Dark Tower IV - Wizard and Glass
		Roland and two teen homies must rescue his first love from the dirty old drooling mayor of a post-apocalyptic cowboy town, thwart a civil war by blowing up oil tanks, and seize an all-seeing crystal ball from Rhea, a vampire witch.
		Roland goes from his forties to his teens and back again, with total realism in the aging and pacing of his voice.
		Roland retells the story of his youthful adventures in Gilead and of his teacher Cort, of star-crossed Susan, and of his companions Alain and Cuthbert, while reading portents in the wizard Maerlyn's glass ball.
	www.stephenkingshop.com /books/king/books/TheDarkTowerIVWizardandGlass1997.htm (1161 words)

	Yukon Books - New, Out Of Print, First Nations, Children's and Yukon Maps
		Imagine the young Clint Eastwood on a mystic quest to save the world and you have a picture of the Roland Deschain, Roland of Gilead (in which there is no balm any more) or, as he was called in the opening words of the first book, “the gunslinger”.
		Gunslingers were knights in Roland’s world, a feudal world held together by the power and skill of these flint eyed men who lived by a code and tried to do the right thing.
		Roland simply knew him as the Dark Man to begin with, and pursued him for vengeance after the great final battle at Jericho Hill, the battle which left Roland the last of the gunslingers.
	www.yukonbooks.com /shop/customer/feature_bookends.php?feature_article_id=332 (704 words)

	Roland - Robo Wiki -= Collecting Robocode Knowledge =-
		Roland Deschain of Gilead is the protagonist in Stephen King's Dark Tower series.
		Roland presently intercepts bullets fired by my implementation of linear predictive targeting.
		Roland is not designed to win as much as to survive, which doesn't lend itself to strong rivalries.
	robowiki.net /cgi-bin/robowiki?Roland (155 words)

	Anime Janai :: View topic - Roland of Gilead vs. Wolfwood
		Roland is one of the last Gunslingers (people who served as a combination of lords, knights, and policemen in the world of the Dark Tower) in the world.
		Two fights, for both of them Roland will be at the top of his game, unaffected by lobstrosities or arthritis.
		Roland will be at the top of his game, unaffected by lobstrosities or arthritis.
	www.aniworlds.com /animejanai/viewtopic.php?t=18445&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight= (876 words)

	KMC Forums - Roland of Gilead v Vash the Stampede
		Roland gets his knife and revolvers (12 shots), and vash gets his revolvers (no angel arm, five shots).
		I dont know much about roland so i'll stand by vash with this, he's pretty damn acurate when it coems to gunplay.
		Roland of Gilead is the main character in Stephen King's Dark Tower saga.
	www.killermovies.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-385132-roland-of-gilead-v-vash-the-stampede.html (681 words)

	CALPER's L*Wiki : GwenPowell
		Dying from infection, Roland crawls upon a free standing door on the beach.
		We learn of Roland's past in Gilead, and in a town called Meijis where he meets and loses the love of his life.
		Roland and his ka-tet must fight the villains, stop the Breakers of the Beams, and reach the Tower before it falls to save all worlds.
	uniwikis.la.psu.edu /GwenPowell (533 words)

	Powell's Books - Wizard & Glass :Dark Tower 4 Rev Edition by Stephen King
		Roland and his band have narrowly escaped the city of Lud and boarded Blaine, a train that will take them to, of all places, Kansas, where the ghost city of Topeka has been depopulated by a superflu and where, alongside Interstate 70, an emerald palace rises enchantingly.
		Before Roland and the companions of his ka-tet continue along the Path of the Bean, Roland must tell his companions the tale that defines him both as a man and hero, a long-ago romance of witchery and evil, of the beautiful, unforgettable Susan Delgado, of the Big Coffin Hunters and Reah of the Coos.
		And when his tale is finished, Roland confronts a man who goes by many names, a man who "darkles and tincts" and who holds perhaps the key to the Dark Tower.
	www.powells.com /biblio/7-0451210875-1 (644 words)

	Amazon.com: The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1): Books: Stephen King,Michael Whelan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		But the background history he gives Roland is just enough to whet the reader's appetite to look for more pieces to his puzzle world and the reason behind his quest.
		And come, when Eddie unlocks the key from the branch and Roland gives the promise he may not keep, to the Drawing of Jake, the undead boy who is one of the many who are one...
		Roland, the Gunslinger, is after the mysterious Man in Black, who is responsible for much trouble and may have clues as to the whereabouts of the Dark Tower--which is tantamount to God's control room.
	www.amazon.com /Gunslinger-Dark-Tower-Book/dp/0670032549 (2141 words)

	Mignon's Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This sequel describes the search of the last Gunslinger Roland of Gilead for the Dark Tower, because his world (Mid-World) is on the edge of extinction and he hopes to find a solution in the Dark Tower.
		This 4th book starts where the 3rd finished: Roland and his party are on a intelligent Monorail: Blaine the Pain.
		And this is exactly where the book disappoints me: it seems as though King had a already finished story, couldn't use it anywhere else and just glued it into this story.
	members.tripod.com /~MignonS/musicbooks/king.htm (290 words)

	Gunslinger, The - Stephen King - Review - Roland Of Gilead
		Roland is a 'Gunslinger' and is, as far as we, the reader, are aware, the best and last of his kind.
		In addition to joining Roland on his quest King spends quite a bit of the book in 'flashback'; Roland recalling events from his past and in particular his own childhood and the training he receives to fulfil his destiny of becoming a Gunslinger.
		Yes, Roland is probably more cowboy than Knight especially as he is the owner, and master, of a pair of quite fabulous revolvers which he keeps holstered in a 'wild-west' style gunbelt.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/gunslinger-the-stephen-king/1016918 (1475 words)

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		Roland of Gilead has not added any friends into his/her network.
		Roland of Gilead is not a member of any Groups.
		Roland of Gilead has not rated any items yet.
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	VampireEarth.com :: View topic - The Day After Tomorrow
		I was inwardly begging for a bomb scare by the end of the first hour, so we would have to evacuate.
		Roland, did you notice something strange during the beginning of the film after the giant crack the had developed when the shelf seperated?
		After the fiasco of the main character jumping across to save his precious core samples, everyone is standing there and the camera pans back to give us a rather long overhead shot of the group.
	www.fossilrecords.net /vampireearth/viewtopic.php?t=251 (1863 words)

	The Gunslinger by Stephen King, Dark Tower book 1
		Roland's quest for the Dark Tower takes readers on a wildly epic ride -- through parallel worlds and across time.
		I love how the narrator accepts Roland's self-image as a simple, fl-and-white kind of guy, when he is clearly not.
		I was absorbed in Roland's quest even though, or perhaps because, its meaning and purpose are deliberately obscure.
	members.aol.com /tirfell/king2.htm (1019 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks:
		The Man in Black is dead, and Roland is about to be hurled into 20th-century America, occupying the mind of a man running cocaine on the New York/Bermuda shuttle.
		Roland unfolds a tale revealing the secrets of his youth--a story of friendship and war, loyalty and betrayal, and the tragic loss of his first beloved.
		Roland Deschain and his ka-tet are bearing southeast through the forests of Mid-World, the almost timeless landscape that seems to stretch from the wreckage of civility that defined Roland's youth to the crimson chaos that seems the future's only promise.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/Series294.htm (576 words)

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		Based on the adventures of a cowboy called Roland of Gilead, the series spans seven books, and takes the reader across different time periods and territories, as Roland attempts to reach the Dark Tower and defeat the Crimson King.
		Clearly modelled on Clint Eastwood, Roland is a man of tremendous determination and great courage but his obsession with the Tower often makes him insensitive.
		And Roland is likely to stay with you along time after you finish reading the series.
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	The Dark Tower - The Drawing of the Three
		The one man, of course, is Roland of Gilead.
		Passing through each of them in succession, Roland enters our world and sets about "drawing" the people who are destined to join him on his Tower quest.
		The three pilgrims comprise Roland of Gilead's ka-tet—"one made of many"—a kind of karmic family united by a single shared destiny: The Dark Tower.
	www.stephenkingshop.com /thedarktower/dt2reading.htm (389 words)

	TheDarkTower.net - Home
		Part of Roland's fictional quest lies in discovering the true nature of the Tower.
		Politically organized along the lines of a feudal society, it shares technological and social characteristics with the American Old West, as well as bearing magical powers and the relics of a highly advanced, but long vanished, society.
		Roland's quest is to find the Dark Tower, a fabled building said to either be, or be located at, the nexus of all universes.
	www.thedarktower.net (784 words)

	Broken Frontier \| The Portal for Quality Comics Coverage!
		The unexpurgated origin of Roland of Gilead begins, with majestic art by Jae Lee, a color palette disappointingly tired, and a ham-fisted script by Peter David.
		Little older than an adolescent, Roland and his fellow apprentices study under Cort – the oldest, toughest, and meanest veteran in Gilead.
		It’s basically an excuse to reveal the mythology of Roland’s country, and while Furth is only a middling, beginning author of fiction, her story isn’t difficult to read (though it isn’t fun, either), and the information within is well worth the time to struggle through the often awkward prose.
	www.brokenfrontier.com /reviews/details.php?id=1230 (955 words)

	Roland of Gilead - The Gunslinger - ConceptArt.org Forums
		To those who have read the books, the illustration is of Roland tracking Jake and Gasher into the city of Lud.
		It doesnt have that kingly sort of air that Roland is described as having.
		I get the feel of "The Drawing of the Three" from your images, when Roland was poisoned and weak, but dangerous as ever and determined to continue his quest.
	www.conceptart.org /forums/showthread.php?mode=hybrid&t=53844 (1894 words)

	Online buy - The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		King writes both a new introduction and foreword to this revised edition, and the ever-patient, ever-loyal "constant reader" is rewarded with secrets to the series's inception.
		The revised Roland of Gilead (nee Deschain) is embodied with more humanity--he loves, he pities, he regrets.
		The Gunslinger introduces protagonist Roland as he pursues the Man in Black through bleak and tired landscapes in a world that has "moved on." Roland believes that the Man in Black knows and can be made to reveal the secrets of the Dark Tower, which is the ultimate goal of Roland's quest.
	astore.amazon.com /chuvashiaportal/detail/0142800376 (430 words)

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