Book Club: The Gunslinger Chapter 1 part 2

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Hile Gunslingers, join the boys in a palaver digging deep into the books of the Dark Tower Series. Tadd and Peter continue on the journey to the Dark Tower as they go through the second half of the first chapter of the first book of the Dark Tower Series. They keep the spoilers light to make it safe for both newcomers and experienced Gunslingers. So dust of your copy of The Gunslinger and listen to the boys chat about the book that began it all.

 

Send in your thoughts on the either the end of Tull or The Waystation for next time, and also if you want the book club to stay spoiler free chime in to any of the normal avenues of communication to let Tadd and Peter know.

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Round Table #8 Idris Elba

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Hile fellow Gunslingers, gather round and prepare for Palaver for your father’s sake. Tadd and Peter come together to talk about everything ranging from Arthur Eld and the Crimson King, The Adaptation, Oy, Flagg, The Dark Tower in 140 characters or less, Idris Elba, Akiva Goldsman on Idris, and even the band Anthrax (who can predict where Palaver will take you). So get your gunslinger burritos and join them on the road to the Dark Tower.

Send in emails or hit up social media to join in the Palaver!

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Round Table #7: The End

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Tadd and Peter come in to the year 2016 (1/2016 1+2+16=19 Ka or Kaka it should be a good month and year), and in the beginning they finally start talking about The Ending! The Crimson King, The Tower, The Horn, Patrick, The Epilogue, The Coda and of course more discussion in the ever present question of Randall Flagg good or bad. The Palaver gets into interpretations and theories as well as the very nature of the Tower itself. Join in the palaver in just the tip of the iceberg for the ending as this will be the first Palaver about the ending but certainly not the last. So grab a seat at the Golgotha, grab a Gunslinger burrito and join in the Palaver. There will be rain if God wills it.
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Round Table #6: Email and News

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Hile Gunslingers! In this episode the boys go through the mailbag to talk a variety of topics sent in by the listeners as well as cover all the latest news about the Adaptation. Join the palaver as the boys talk everything from Is Flagg trying to help Roland all the way to if Flagg is a bad guy or misunderstood. They also cover the demise of both Flagg and the Crimson King, as well as Patrick Danville, and the comics among other assorted topics. They also get some really great stories about listeners’ journeys in reading the Dark Tower series.

 

Next time they will cover the ending (there will be water if God wills it) so send in your thoughts, questions, and theories on the ending for them to read next time.

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Book Club: The Gunslinger Chapter 1 part 1

Dark Tower Palaver Final-19

Hile Gunslingers, join the boys in a palaver digging deep into the books of the Dark Tower Series. Tadd and Peter begin the journey to the Dark Tower as they go through the first half of the first chapter of the first book of the Dark Tower Series. They keep the spoilers light to make it safe for both newcomers and experienced Gunslingers. So dust of your copy of The Gunslinger and listen to the boys chat about the book that began it all. The boys also touch briefly on the Matthew McConaughey rumors. Tadd’s roommate also gives a bit of background music for a few minutes. Send in your thoughts on the book and the next part of the book club in a few episodes when the book club comes returns.

Next episode the boys go back to the Round Table for some emails, some McConaughey talk, and The Ending, so send your emails now.

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Round Table #5: Random Book topics

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In this episode Tadd and Peter read the first few emails then tackle some book topics like; what (if any) Mid-World speech has worked into your everyday vocabulary, what is each of the Ka-Tet’s best moment in the books, what is each of the Tet’s lowest moment in each book, and how have the boy’s views on the series changed on subsequent read-throughs, as well as talk a tiny bit about the adaptation and if a certain villainous character can be removed from the adaptation in total. As well give some details about the first of the Book Club episodes which starts next episode with the beginning of The Gunslinger. Don’t worry the next Round Table (after the first book club episode) we will dive into discussing the ending.

Email your thoughts about the beginning of The Gunslinger for next weeks Book club discussion of The Gunslinger.

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Second Casting Link List

Hey fellow Palaverers,

In the newest episode of Dark Tower Palaver we mention the lists we came up with. Here is the link to the Google Doc with our lists. It is cut to just have what we discuss in this episode. Check an earlier post for the list from our first episode.

Click here for the lists.

Enjoy the episode, and send us your thoughts on casting or the show in general at DarkTowerPalaver(-at-)gmail(-dot-)com.

 

Round Table #4: Film Dream Casting Part 2

In this episode of Dark Tower Palaver Tadd and Peter continue their Round Table Tadd discussing who they would cast in roles in the Dark Tower movies/TV shows. They came up with 50 characters to cast, but they went way long, in fact they both had flashbacks of The Gunslinger’s Palaver with The Man in Black so it was split into 2 shows, this is part 2 containing the “Deeper Cuts” for the characters. Also check out darktowerpalaver.com for a link to the Google Doc with IMDB pages and pictures to see what was in each person’s head when they cast the roles.

Email us your thoughts on Dark Tower Casting ideas and tune in next episode as we discuss various topics regarding the books as well as give details about the upcoming Book Club episodes.

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Link to our Casting Google Doc

Hey fellow Palaverers,

In the newest episode of Dark Tower Palaver we mention the lists we came up with. Here is the link to the Google Doc with our lists. It is cut to just have what we discuss in this episode. We will share the second half along with the next episode.

Click here for the lists.

Enjoy the episode!

 

Round Table #3: Film Dream Casting Part 1

In the newest Round Table Tadd and Peter discuss who they would cast in various roles in the Dark Tower movies/TV shows. They came up with 50 characters to cast, but they went way long so it will be split into 2 shows, this is the top 10 characters. Also check out darktowerpalaver.com for a link to the Google Doc with IMDB pages and pictures to see what was in each person’s head when they cast the roles.

Email us your thoughts on Dark Tower Casting ideas and tune in next episode as we discuss the deeper cuts for casting.

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