The gunslinger

I'm currently reading The Gunslinger by Stephen King and it is only getting better. I am currently standing among the remains of the people of the town. I say this because of the great amount of detail that Stephen King puts into his work. One day your watching a man get brought back from the dead the next your looking at the remains of what once was.
I extremely like the way this book is written because it feels like the reader is right there while everything is happening. If every book had as much detail as this book then I would read much more often and a lot less just because I'm forced to read. However one thing this book does lack is a backstory.