I recently joined Audible, and have been trying to navigate the system — when to use a credit, when to pay, what to put on my wish list, etc. For my first book, I selected the 40+ hour-long It. I hadn’t read It since I was in high school, when I remember it scared me to death. But I’ve been on a bit of a Dark Tower Universe kick, enjoying all of the links between Stephen King’s books and trying to figure out how they […]
Who wants to go for a ride?
Another Stephen King novella, Stationary Bike has a great premise, but gets a little too nutty even for me… Richard Sifkitz’s doctor tells him that it’s time to lose some weight, weight that Sifkitz — a commercial artist — has been packing on since his wife died. Sifkitz buys a stationary bike, and instead of installing it in front of a TV, he puts it in his apartment’s basement, facing a blank wall (artists are weird, I guess). He paints the wall with a mural depicting a […]
How well can you ever really know someone?
I recently discovered that my library has a pile of Stephen King novellas on audiobook — ones that I never read because he released them all as e-books and I really don’t like e-books — I’ll read them in my browser if they’re free, but overall I’d prefer a paperback (or a book on tape — I’m not a total Luddite). So I rented 3 of these novellas, and listened to A Good Marriage first (which was narrated by Jessica Hecht — a.k.a. Susan from Friends, a.k.a. Gretchen […]
Let’s spend a little time in Calla Bryn Sturgis
Wolves of the Calla takes place immediately following the events of Wizard and Glass. Roland and his ka-tet are making their way to the Dark Tower, when they are interrupted by a request to help. A farming town called Calla Bryn Sturgis has a plague fall upon them once a generation: a pack of “wolves” on horses come to their town, and take half their children (most of the town’s children are twins, and the wolves take one of each pair). Weeks later, the children are returned […]
“Ka was like a wheel, it’s one purpose to turn and in the end it always came back to the place where it had started.”
Stephen King first published The Gunslinger in 1982. I probably read it for the first time in about 1990 or so, and I’ve been reading and re-reading these Dark Tower books ever since. Because ka is like a wheel, and I really can’t do anything about that, can I? I was nearing the end of my most recent re-read (see my reviews of all the other books), and suddenly found that I simply couldn’t read the second half of The Dark Tower again. If you’ve read it, you know what […]
The Ballad of Susan and Roland
Oh, this is definitely one of the best Dark Tower books. We’ve known all along that something terrible happened to a girl named Susan Delgado, and that this terrible thing affected Roland deeply, turning him into the man he is now. And here, in Wizard and Glass, we learn the whole story. “True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring — once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome… except, of course, to those who share the kisses, […]
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