I meant no offense by my crabby comment about "outsiders" and the the DT community. Someone replied with saying that they'll refer to my favorite DT quote, which is of course Cort's "Fault always lies in him weak enough to lay blame." I'm not blaming anyone for anything - although valid points were brought up that I only posted a couple times before this so ... that's my fault. I just wasn't sure that regulars on here would read a thread by someone who isn't quite a regular
No harm, no foul ... No bounce, no play in other words. Great advice.
Anyways, if I'm being completely and 100% honest ... I COULD NOT understand Browning's poem. I cheated and looked up the Sparknotes summary on it. I get that King was
trying to follow the poem throughout the book; in my opinion, he got off subject quite often and (I hate saying this because it sounds so critical and mean) it kinda looked like he forgot that he started this based off of the poem and towards the end it was like "Oh, shit how can I incorporate the poem back into this, when I've already jumped so far off base?". Don't get me wrong, I love the book, but that's just my opinion. I'll have to do another read through, but in Wizard and Glass, where Roland primarily talks about his experience with Alain, Cuthbert, and Susan in Madras I don't remember seeing anything about Cuthbert's horn in there - I could be wrong tho. I have a horrible memory and to be fair there were thousands of pages lol But to me, the whole thing with the horn - it just seemed like a last minute "Oh damn I forgot to mention this" thing.
I saw someone else on here said something about the tone and style of the last three books - I agree. They were so much different then the first four. I think if King would have stuck with the flow he was following - even though it got off base from the Browning poem - I think he could have really blown all of our minds. I dunno. I put a lot of (sometimes too much) thought into things - kind of what Roland's father said about Roland in regards to the riddles haha
It really is just stuck in my head - if he pulled Jake up from the abyss, ditched his palaver with Walter, and headed for the beach anyways - what would happen? I keep thinking that Roland and Jake would both know that their path has changed dramatically. Dreams are a big deal in the series and I just keep wondering, also, what if they start having dreams of a door (a different door) that would lead Roland back to before the battle on Jericho hill. What if old, ancient Roland saw himself - warned himself. Its very Groundhog's Day/Back to the Future lol