I am reading The Gunslinger by Stephen King, an author that has won many awards ad has written many books. The story is set in a large, barren, seemingly endless desert. The main character, Roland of Gilead, is pursuing a mysterious man simply known as the man in black, who seems to possess some sort of magical power. Roland's origins are strange and unknown, but it is said that he is born under the "High Speech", and flashbacks, although revealing little, has told me that he lived in a castle at a young age, in a world closely resembling our own. He is called the last gunslinger, and he has two cowboy-style revolvers that he has many years' worth of skill with. So far, he was attacked by a small town that was seemingly possessed by either the Devil or the man in black (which may be one in the same) and although all 50-some people were swarming him with knives and other various makeshift weapons, he killed them all, sustaining minimal damage. From there, he meets a young boy from New York, and you later learn that this boy has been run over by a car and died, seemingly brought to the desert by who appears to be the man in black. Really, as of yet, I have no clue what this book is about, when it takes place, or where exactly it is set.