In later books, the Good Man's name is said to be John Farson. The Gunslinger, 2003 Revised and Updated EditionĪnother example: in the 1982 version, Roland and Cuthbert overhear Hax the cook conspiring with a traitor of the guards to poison the people of Farson they will commit this atrocity in the name of the insurrectionist known as "The Good Man".
The remains of the wood he had carried had turned to something like stone, and the man in black was a laughing skeleton in a rotting black robe, more bones in this place of bones, one more skull in this golgotha. The man in black returns in later books, so in the 2003 edition, King mentions that Roland doubts that the skeleton is really his remains: The remains of the wood he had carried had turned to ironwood, and the man in black was a laughing skeleton in a rotting black robe, more bones in this place of bones, one more skull in golgotha. In the 2003 "Revised and Expanded Edition", King removes all references to magazines. Clearly, he has no idea what magazines and photographs are. Likewise, he hears the word "photograph" as "fottergraf". He hears the word "magazine" as "Magda-seen", and assumes they are about the things that a woman named Magda has seen he can't figure out why anyone cares about what Magda sees. When he comes to our world and hears people talking about magazines and photographs, he has no idea what they're talking about. In the next book in the series, The Drawing of the Three, we learn that paper is as valuable as gold in Roland's world using it to make something as cheap and disposable as a magazie would be near sacriligeous to him. read dry and tattered back issues of magazines with faded pictures. Instead, I will explain the different types of changes and provide an example or two of each.Ĭhanges to remove plot inconsistencies between The Gunslinger and later books in the series:
The Google Doc I created is 15 pages long, so I clearly can't quote it in full here. I found a long, but not complete, list of all the changes, and posted it (with some corrections) on Google Docs. Stephen King, quoted in The Road to the Dark Tower by Bev Vincent. "The material is about an additional 10% (about 35 manuscript pages) with changes on almost every page."
Vincent also quotes an update King posted on his website in 2003: He removed most adverbs- following his own advice in On Writing- and clarified numerous cases of pronouns with uncertain antecedents. Some are simple reworkings of awkward, self-conscious writing-“ hollow blather,” as he calls it in the foreword. King’s changes occur on almost every page. As Bev Vincent says in his analysis The Road to the Dark Tower: Exploring Stephen King's Magnum Opus:
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