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》事实上和《时光之轮》有一定相似点。这两部系列的前四本都是最经典的，同时你也会感觉到，罗伯特.乔丹和史蒂芬.金都不太懂得怎么去结尾（-皿-so就累死看的人好了），这就导致了《黑塔》的结局备受争议，许多作者自设的疑问待解，就好比故事中他的自我侵蚀。（self-insertion...这个能直译成自插么。或者自我带入（故事情节）？没看过《黑塔》实在也搞不明白这个是啥意思）上述就如同《时光之轮》一样，对于《黑塔》来说，瑕不掩瑜。金创造了有史以来最具标志性的魔幻人物枪手罗兰以及他所创造的世界（异次元空间之类的吧...），这些都与我们的现实生活有一定的相似度，可认知感很强。史蒂芬金没有在魔幻方面做太多的涉猎，这确实令人遗憾，因为他有一个明确的世界搭建方式。更别说他写的所有东西看起来都像电话号码本，刚刚好符合魔幻的题材。