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The four gunslingers and Oy the billy-bumbler disembark at the Topeka railway station, which to their surprise is located in the Topeka, Kansas, of the 1980s. The city is deserted, as this version of the world has been depopulated by the influenza of King's novel The Stand. Links between these books also include the following reference to The Walkin' Dude from The Stand on page 95, \"Someone had spray-painted over both signs marking the ramp's ascending curve. On the one reading St. Louis 215, someone had slashed watch out for the walking dude\", among others. The world also has some other minor differences with the one (or more) known to Eddie, Jake and Susannah; for instance, the Kansas City baseball team is the Monarchs (as opposed to the Royals), and Nozz-A-La is a popular soft drink. The ka-tet leaves the city via the Kansas Turnpike, and as they camp one night next to an eerie dimensional hole which Roland calls a \"thinny\", the gunslinger tells the apprentices of his past, and his first encounter with a thinny.
Wizard and GlassFirst Edition CoverInformationAuthorStephen KingCover artistDave McKeanCountryUSGenreFantasy, Western, Science Fiction, HorrorPublisherGrantPublication dateNovember 4, 1997Pages787PreviousThe Waste LandsNextThe Wind Through the KeyholeWizard and Glass is the fourth book in Stephen King's The Dark Tower Series. The book's subtitle is REGARD, fitting with the other \"R\" subtitles that appear in all of the books. The majority of the book is told in flashback, chronicling the story of Roland's first love.
Wizard and Glass is Stephen King's fourth novel in The Dark Tower series, originally published by Donald M. Grant in 1997. Viking released a new edition of the book in 2003 featuring this stunning cover art by Steve Stone, depicting Rhea of the Cöos' mystical malevolent orb in the foreground with the tower beyond it. Now this gorgeous artwork can be enjoyed for the first time without cover text, as a beautifully printed giclée print.
Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
The first three books, The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three and The Waste Lands I found brilliant but have to be honest and admit that Wizard and Glass, on first read, was not a great experience. There are two reasons that might explain this, the first being that a year had passed since I had finished The Waste Lands and much momentum had been lost, and much that had happened had been forgotten. This is the disadvantage of reading a series as it is published, and if you do not have the time to re-read previous instalments then it may well be that the reading enjoyment is not as high as when you can simply turn the last page on book three and reach over, open, and begin reading book four. Basically, I was found myself no longer submerged in the Dark Tower worlds and found it a little difficult to get back into. The second reason for my lack of enthusiasm first time around may lie in the fact that book four does not drive the story forward very far - its purpose being to further fill out Roland's character and history. This is does by spending a large portion of the book recounting the time when Roland, in his youth, along with his apprentice gunslinger friends, Cuthbert and Alain, visited the town of Mejis on a mission whose main aim is to move them far from Gilead and the danger there.
Stephen King's magnum opus, The Dark Tower, is getting another live-action adaptation. This time around, Midnight Mass' Mike Flanagan is taking on an ambitious project that could encompass several seasons of television and multiple feature films. But considering just how sprawling the Dark Tower saga is, it's difficult to imagine anything less doing justice to the books.
In addition to the seven core novels that make up the story of wandering gunslinger Roland Deschain, many of King's most iconic novels (It, Salem's Lot, etc.) tie into the Dark Tower in some way or another, forming an entire literary multiverse. There's a lot of story to navigate. But if you're interested in trying to experience the full Dark Tower storyline before the new live-action series debuts, we've broken down all the essential books and the best reading order in which to savor the song of Roland.
Much like with the Star Wars movies, Stephen King fans frequently debate the best order in which to read his Dark Tower-related books. While the core Dark Tower books are numbered sequentially, it can be much harder to know when and where to branch out to the rest of King's work.
We're proponents of reading these books in more or less the same order they're published. The Dark Tower is a story that grew in the telling. King certainly didn't have any inkling of the full scope of Roland's story when he began it, or how much events in his own life would influence its execution, and it's best appreciated with that perspective in mind.
While this story's direct ties to the Dark Tower books are only really made apparent in the 2001 sequel The Black House, even in 1984 The Talisman was notable for delving deeper into the King multiverse and the concept of parallel worlds that exist as distorted mirrors of our own.
It is easily one of King's most well-known works. It's also among his longest, chronicling a battle between a group of social outcasts and a demonic entity haunting the town of Derry, Maine across multiple time periods. It never really forges a firm connection to the Dark Tower books, but it's still worth reading for two reasons. One, it's an essential King novel that many regard as one of his best. Two, it does offer a fuller sense of the true scope of King's multiverse and the forces that keep it in balance.
The Drawing of the Three is the second installment of the Dark Tower books. Here, a wounded Roland encounters a series of doorways leading to New York City, offering the chance of new allies in his quest and a shot at redemption.
Insomnia is a bit of an odd duck in the King lineup. It's among his longest books, but it's also slow-paced and fairly uneventful in its first half. Rather than featuring King's typical tortured writer protagonist, it revolves around a retired widower named Ralph Roberts. However, the novel rewards the patient reader with a much more exciting climax and a very meaningful Dark Tower connection that really pays off in the final leg of the saga.
Hearts in Atlantis is a collection of several novellas. While the entire book is worth reading, in terms of Dark Tower relevance you need only concern yourself with the opening tale, \"Low Men in Yellow Coats.\" This story introduces kindly Ted Brautigan, an elderly man with psychic powers being pursued by sinister forces. Yes, both Ted and said forces have a direct link to the Dark Tower books.
Black House is the second collaboration between King and Straub, a sequel to 1984's The Talisman starring a now-adult Jack Sawyer. As mentioned before, this sequel is far more overtly tied to the Dark Tower books. In fact, it does more than any of the core Dark Tower stories to flesh out the Crimson King, the central villain of the saga.
Though the main saga ended in 2004, King revisited Roland's world with this spinoff book. While set before Wolves of the Calla, we think The Wind Through the Keyhole is better appreciated as an epilogue to the series. Its unique \"story within a story within a story\" structure gives the book a whimsical feel that helps offset the grim tone of the main books.
As for the movie, it's an extremely flawed but still interesting attempt at distilling the plot of multiple Dark Tower books into one streamlined film. Originally, the plan was to release a trilogy of movies with two seasons of TV airing between the films. Those plans have now shifted. Amazon was developing a Dark Tower TV series focused on a young Roland, one seemingly unconnected to the 2017 movie or Idris Elba's version of Roland. Instead, Sam Strike (Leatherface) will star as Roland, and Michael Rooker (The Walking Dead) and Jasper Pääkkönen are reportedly playing the villains of the first season. Unfortunately, Deadline reported in January 2020 that Amazon has passed on the Dark Tower series. Now we know Flanagan is spearheading his own live-action series, one which appears to be a fresh start for the franchise.
As many constant readers know, Stephen King likes to tie a lot of his works together, creating his own multiverse, and The Dark Tower series is probably one of the biggest examples. Here's a list of his works that tie into The Dark Tower in some way, shape or form. The books are listed in suggested reading order. Anything after the last novel can be read in any order. Time is unlimited, and remember, all things serve the beam. Long days and pleasant nights.
In our recent interview with Stephen King, we asked the author to name the best book he ever wrote. Without a moment's hesitation he went with Lisey's Story, a 2006 novel about a woman coping with the death of her husband, who happened to be a best-selling author. We figured many of his fans would have a different choice, so we opened it up for a vote. Here are the results, but note that the vast number of Dark Tower books made it hard for any one of them to make a great showing on the list. 59ce067264
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