Author – Stephen King
A review of Wizard and
Glass
I’ve read the first four of the dark tower series now with
three to go and must say this one rivals as my favorite. This series is all I’ve read of King’s work,
except for On Writing, and I admire
his style. All I knew of King before I
read these books was the less-than-stellar movies that spawned from his
writing. It’s probably attributed to my
non interest in horror type material.
Movies aside I’ll get to the book Wizard and Glass.
Blaine the train
The ending to the previous book left me interested as to
what riddle Roland and company would come up with to stump this pious
train. I was left disappointed when Eddie
and his uncreative riddles drove Blaine into a cliché overload. Until that point I thought it started well.
The story of Roland
By far and away my favorite section of the book. Back story is my weakness and it’s done
amazingly. The characters of Cuthbert,
Alain, Susan, Jonas and Cordelia to name a few are far more interesting to read
about than what we’ve been mainly exposed to thus far in the series. I wasn’t sold on the series yet and still may
not be since I’m guessing there won’t be a sizable chunk of Roland’s past to
feast on. His quest for the dark tower
leading to the death of his love Susan while the deception of that witch Rhea, he
failed to finish off, led to his mother’s death gets a hold of you. It’s satisfactory to know what has made
Roland who he is at long last. I hope
there is more to come as I’d rather read about Cuthbert and Alain over Eddie
and Susannah any day.
Oz?
The shoes and Wizard of Oz segments to wrap the book up are
silly. I was hoping for something unique
or different but get a telling of a movie I never liked growing up incorporated
into a book I was very much into. My
favorite version of the Wizard of Oz is done in Futurama.
Wrap up
Despite an intro and ending that I didn’t care much for this
book delivers thanks in large part to Roland’s history revealed. I’m not as interested in what the dark tower
is as to how fascinated by the character Roland I am. Fortunately that should be enough for me to
move along in the series just to see what happens to Roland. King really has created an awesome character
in him that powers this series. With
characters like Eddie and Susannah I suppose he would need to or I’m not
confident I’d want to continue.
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