Cory Doctorow on Nostr: The *Dark Tower* series is a long, long, *long* Bildungsroman, with many detours ...

The *Dark Tower* series is a long, long, *long* Bildungsroman, with many detours through the life-stories of the characters in the ensemble cast, as well as the biographies of many of the figures they meet along the road. It's mostly an adventure novel, as road-trip tales tend to be, but those character studies and the lore that they surface - from our world and theirs - creates an overwhelming, many-layered, richly textured sense of loss and worse, of *despair*.

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