The Lost Dark Tower Island

So I've been slowly poking my way through The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. I'm currently reading Part 3, The Waste Lands. So far, the series is about a cowboy, a junkie, a mad black lady and a little kid searching for The Dark Tower, which is the nexus of reality. The group is connected by coincidence and destiny, and the world they explore is full of mysteries and hints of a technologically advanced group of people that used to live there.

The TV show "LOST" is about a group of plane crash survivors stranded on an island. The group is connected by coincidence and destiny, and the world they explore is full of mysteries and hints of a technologically advanced group of people that used to live there.

The dudes behind "LOST" have said more than a few times that they're influenced by King, especially Tower, and in fact they were going to work on a film adaptation of the series once "LOST" is done but that fell through. That's too bad for them, but someone really needs to make it into an HBO show. It'd be amazing.

Now, I'm not fully through either story yet, but I'm guessing that The Island and The Dark Tower end up being the same thing to their respective universes (universii?). Obviously, I'll find out what The Island is first, since there's no way I'm reading the remaining FOUR THOUSAND pages of The Dark Tower before "LOST" is over.

Also, the two series seem to have something else in common: making it up as they go along. But they're both entertaining as well as kind of almost deep, so whatever. I love it.