I am on page 143 of The Gunslinger. So far, Jake, the boy from New York, and Roland, the gunslinger, have finally made it across the vast desert and into a large oasis at the basis of the mountains, behind which lies their goal. Roland still relentlessly pursues the man in black for whatever reason. There is another flashback, revealing the days when Roland and a friend of his were being trained as gunslingers and were forced to witness the hanging of a criminal the boys single-handedly discovered attempting to poison all of the children at their acedemy. I am slowly finding out what this book is about, and hopefully by the end of it I will know for sure. as of right now, i still know very little about the main character, and the setting is only partially "uncovered".