Read: Wolves of the Calla–“Took’s Store; The Unfound Door”; “The Priest’s Tale Concluded (Unfound)”
After a bit of thrilling ordering-stuff-in-a-general-store action and another interdimensional warp zone, we come to the conclusion of Father Callahan’s story. Again I’m struck by how well his would have stood on its own, and probably would have but for King’s post-car-accident Dark Tower mania. I’m also struck by how tightly my interest in reading these books is tied to treating them as Marvel Handbooks–finding out the connection between the vampires and the low men and the Big Coffin Hunters and Flagg and Sayre and the Crimson King and so on without caring so much as to how that information is presented. Speaking of, this section really seems to be the first where my failure to have read any King books more recent than The Dark Half is an impediment to picking up all or even most of the references he’s making to his books’ shared world. I’ll live, but it’s quite clear that the Dark Tower series are King books for King fans.
PS: Jake really should have told Roland and the gang about Andy the robot’s late-night rendezvous with Slightman Sr. Why wouldn’t he?
I’m not sure if this observation is relevant, but the only post-Dark Half novel that I’ve really, really disliked is Insomnia, which seems to be chock full of references to these Dark Tower books (none of which I have read). More to the point: the reference to the Dark Tower books really drove me crazy, to the point where I started to think all his critics were right.
I’m not sure if this observation is relevant, but the only post-Dark Half novel that I’ve really, really disliked is Insomnia, which seems to be chock full of references to these Dark Tower books (none of which I have read). More to the point: the reference to the Dark Tower books really drove me crazy, to the point where I started to think all his critics were right.
I’m not sure if this observation is relevant, but the only post-Dark Half novel that I’ve really, really disliked is Insomnia, which seems to be chock full of references to these Dark Tower books (none of which I have read). More to the point: the reference to the Dark Tower books really drove me crazy, to the point where I started to think all his critics were right.
The Blogslinger: Blogging The Dark Tower, October-November 2007–Index
Here you shall find links to all of the posts in my blogathon reading of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. This post will be updated with each new entry. Day 1: Introduction Day 2: The Gunslinger Day 3: The Drawing…
I disagree with Jon. I thought that Insomnia was fascinating because of the tie-ins to the Dark Tower series. Although, as we see in the end, the primary character suffers a much more horrible fate than he had a right to expect.