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Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, Book 4) |
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| | Excellent Book!  |
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I have been reading the Dark Tower novels ever since Mr. King released the last three volumes about three to five years ago. I myself am a teacher and have found it hard to find time to read anything. However in the last two years I have made it through more books than usual. Three of those books have been books 4, 5, and (currently about half way through) 6. I have already read the first three books in the series.
I can without a doubt tell you that although this book: Vol. 4: Wizard and Glass is the absolute best volume thus far in the series. It basically tells of the early days of Roland's quest and of his first love Susan Delgado and how he started his quest for the Dark Tower. It is written very similar to an old western novel with elements such in similarity to Lord of the Rings and the Wizard of Oz. The beginning of the book and the end of the book do deal with Roland's new Ka Tet (Eddie, Jake, Susannah, and Oy) but the majority of the book is Roland telling his story. It is my absolute favorite out of the five and a half books in the series that I have read. Definitely a good read.
Having said that if you have not read the other books prior: The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1), The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, Book 2), and The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, Book 3); you probably will not understand the beginning and ending parts of this book.
If you have not read those books you will probably want to either read those or instead of this book read The Gunslinger Born (The Dark Tower Graphic Novel) It tells the same basic story but sticks to Roland's early days. |
| | Roland's beginnings are revealed  |
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Ok, I am not going to do a rendition, I see this has already been done. This is the 4th book in the Dark Tower series and this was the hardest book of the series for me to read. Most of this book consists of Roland telling his story of becomming a gunslinger to his posse (ka-tet). I found Roland's story time uninteresting, but I do think it is an integral part to the entire Dark Tower series. I do recommend this book if you are going to read the entire series, otherwise its not going to hold your interest. I do not recommend you read these books out of order, this is like 1 big story and you will become lost in Roland's world if you do not go in order. |
| | Wizard and Glass |
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This book has a big fat disappointment nestling in it. I'm hoping that, if I tell you about it now, you will enjoy it a little more than I did, and perhaps give it the four stars it really deserves rather than the three I've settled with.
This is a flash-back novel. It's not a bad thing in itself, but when you've read the first three instalments and left on a cliff hanger, you'd better hope that the momentum keeps up! It does - we get the resolution of the story segment truncated in "The Waste Lands", and it's a good one too. We get a little more as well. And then we get about five hundred pages of flashback, returning to Roland's youth and his - don't get me wrong - very interesting adventures. But these aren't the characters we've come to invest our hopes and emotions in; it's barely even the same Roland, the period of time between them is so great. So you're not reading Dark Tower 4, you're reading that tie-in novel that you probably would have picked up anyway, provided it's second-hand and in good condition. King shamefully weaves it into the fourth novel - or more accurately, plonks it right in the middle - so that the frame of the story, in which the adventures of Roland, Odetta (or Suzanna), Eddie and Jake continue, is something that we have to read so that we're not missing stuff. Really, he should have put the opening on the end of the last book, and the ending on the start of the next, and let us in on the secret that this is not entirely relevant to the story we're reading. It's like cruising at 90mph only to have to take a little detour around a school at 20mph before you can start picking up speed again.
Don't misunderstand - it's a good book. It's worth reading. But it feels a little like filler and doesn't have enough of the characters we really want. Should you buy it after completing "The Waste Lands"? Of course you should! It's great! Just be forewarned that this is a different story to the one you've been reading, and the main characters, the one's you're really interested in, take a back seat to Roland's back story. |
| | The first book in a epic tale |
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in my opinion of the gunslinger series, this book's test of Roland, the apprentise of his teacher has to prove his worthiness to be a gunslinger. In the first batttle of many to come, has to beat his teacher in his righthood to become a Knight of sorts. His fight againsttt his teacher is a captivating battle of which this book is, the first of a series ttha in my opionion, the best of the series; in short, if one enjoyies long stories, you MUST read this book |
| | Still can't finish it  |
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I absolutely loved the other books from this series. I love the major majority of Stephen King's other earlier works. This book however, I've attempted over and over to read and still can't fight my way through it. It's wordy and long winded without going anywhere. |
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