Has anyone read the Dark Tower series? They are great books. This isn't science related but I'm bored and wondering if anyone else read it. I would recommend it.

Yeah i'm reading them for the third time. Great story.

Agreed. My favourite series of books by a long way.

 

Genuinely awe inspiring tale. Love the sense of scale it brings to the proceedings.

Eats up your time though. once you pick up one of the books you can't put it down again.

Yea and some of them are huge! I'm on the seventh one right now.

Seventh is good. We could make this scientific by hypothesising about the technology found in Lud and what actually happened to the "Old People" also whether an A.I. could be killed by illogic.

The whole train riddle bit was pretty funny i thought. Blaine the train i think it was

We could make this scientific by hypothesising about the technology found in Lud and what actually happened to the "Old People" also whether an A.I. could be killed by illogic.

 

Seems to me like the old people were wiped out by war and by using some kind of scary dimension-bending technology that left the doors and the thinnys behind. Left people and animals with mutations. They must've had some nice toys.

 

Reading the story it kinda seems like Roland's world (i.e. Gilead) is set maybe five thousand years on or something. King leaves plenty to the imagination which is cool.

I was thinking that the old people maybe introduced a genetic plague or some sort of virus that gets to the DNA and messes it up. Blaine said that it was much worse than a nuclear war(any he would probably have been erased by EMP's anyways) and that the thinnies were a result of the deteriation of the tower. have you read to the end yet so i know whether to put a spoiler over what i want to ask next. I hate it when the end gets spoiled so i ain't going to spoil it for anyone else.

I am halfway throught he seventh book so no ending spoilers please

k no problem. i won't put anything up(even with spoiler tags just incase you get curious) until you've inished the book.