So The Dark Tower is the first King I ever read, did them all straight through. I just went back recently and read The Stand and BOY HOWDY does that one have a lot of bearing on the Dark Tower.
A lot of the extended universe / tangential stuff stands on its own within the Dark Tower -- like Father Callahan is a pretty much complete character within The Dark Tower -- but the Randall Flagg backstory and the existence of Nick always bothered me about The Dark Tower until I read The Stand.
A lot of the extended universe / tangential stuff stands on its own within the Dark Tower -- like Father Callahan is a pretty much complete character within The Dark Tower -- but the Randall Flagg backstory and the existence of Nick always bothered me about The Dark Tower until I read The Stand.