A bit of trivia

In radical dreamers, when you are in manx's library, you can make kid read alot of books. One is a sex book that will make her attack you and nearly kill you out of embaressment, another leads too a sidequest, some are there just for jokes, and one, in which kid actually gets VERY engrossed in, reads like the intro to Stephen King's "The Dark Tower". Which I started reading about the same time I played the first Saga game, and thought they had both very similar premises, seeking the secrets of a tower that connects to several other worlds.

Like I said, just a bit of interesting trivia. Seems that square has a thing for Stephen King.
When was that book written? SaGa may very well have predated it by quite some time.