9. The Dark Tower by Stephen King 《黑塔》——史蒂芬.金

The Dark Tower actually shares some similarities with The Wheel of Time. In both series the first four books are the strongest, and you also get the sense with both Robert Jordan and Stephen King that they didn't quite know how to end their creation, which led to a very controversial ending in The Dark Tower's case along with some questionable decisions by King like his self-insertion in the story.

That being said, like The Wheel of Time, the pluses outweigh the minuses in the case of The Dark Tower series. King has created one of the most iconic fantasy characters of all time in the Gunslinger Roland and the world (dimension? alternate universe?) he creates, with all of it's similarities to our reality, is lush and feels tangible. It's too bad that Stephen King doesn't dabble more in fantasy, because he clearly has a knack for world building. Not to mention everything he writes seems to be phone book sized, which would fit right in with the fantasy genre.

《黑塔》事實(shí)上和《時(shí)光之輪》有一定相似點(diǎn)。這兩部系列的前四本都是最經(jīng)典的，同時(shí)你也會(huì)感覺到，羅伯特.喬丹和史蒂芬.金都不太懂得怎么去結(jié)尾（-皿-so就累死看的人好了），這就導(dǎo)致了《黑塔》的結(jié)局備受爭議，許多作者自設(shè)的疑問待解，就好比故事中他的自我侵蝕。（self-insertion...這個(gè)能直譯成自插么。或者自我?guī)耄ü适虑楣?jié)）？沒看過《黑塔》實(shí)在也搞不明白這個(gè)是啥意思）上述就如同《時(shí)光之輪》一樣，對于《黑塔》來說，瑕不掩瑜。金創(chuàng)造了有史以來最具標(biāo)志性的魔幻人物槍手羅蘭以及他所創(chuàng)造的世界（異次元空間之類的吧...），這些都與我們的現(xiàn)實(shí)生活有一定的相似度，可認(rèn)知感很強(qiáng)。史蒂芬金沒有在魔幻方面做太多的涉獵，這確實(shí)令人遺憾，因?yàn)樗幸粋€(gè)明確的世界搭建方式。更別說他寫的所有東西看起來都像電話號碼本，剛剛好符合魔幻的題材。