Read: Wolves of the Calla–“Gran-Pere’s Tale”; “Nocturne, Hunger”

Again I question the wisdom of presenting so much important information through people sitting around and talking about it decades after the fact. Kinda leeches some of the excitement from the proceedings, no? But what’s worse is how this technique makes the big cheat in this section–King keeping Gran-Pere’s revelation to Eddie of what lies beneath the Wolves’ masks a secret from the reader–seem like an even bigger cop-out than it already is. To have so much vital plot development come out in this way, only to hide the most vital development of all from we the readers, simply makes it crystal clear that this is a decision made by an extradigetic author for no other purpose than to wring more drama out of the proceedings than he otherwise could. It’s almost insulting. It makes me hope that Jake is right an the ka-tet is falling apart, so that maybe we can clear the deck of these losers and get back to basics. Or maybe just out of spite.

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