ChainsawAsh said:

Slightly off-topic, but since you mentioned trade paperbacks, I just wanted to throw this out there:

Trade paperbacks are awesome. I have all 7 Dark Tower books in trade paperback, and they're glorious. With the full-color illustrations and everything!

Anyway, that is all. Carry on.

aw crap - I didn't know such editions existed. I have the first 4 in ordinary paperback and the last 3 hard cover - and as far as I was aware ONLY the hard covers had the illustrations.

now I hate you a little bit...

Also, do you have the original first book or the tweaked reprint?

and regarding SOTME, It's starting to sound more interesting than I was suspecting, I've read a few terrible SW books so I'm usually very skeptical. Might look into it.