On read number three of the series, currently reading The Wastelands. Mr Dean is currently pulling guard duty trying to figure out the riddle, There is a thing that nothing is, and yet it has a name. It's sometimes tall and sometimes short, joins our talks, joins our sport, and plays at every game.
I don't actually have the books (not for the lack of trying...) but I have all of the audiobooks, and I'm just getting around to a relisten to Wolves of the Calla
it's the best of these books, isn't it?
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm seriously contemplating doing a re-read of Wizard and Glass, not because it's a favorite, but because I really want to revisit the DT world, and that one stands apart from the others.
That's the one I go back to if I want a Dark Tower fix without committing to a whole new re-read. Plus, it *is* my favorite.
I've just recently finished The Wastelands, and am currently at the point in W&G where Mr.Dean is riddling Blaine, and Blaine is losing his mind trying to answer Eddies nonsensical riddles.
Yeah. I've read it quite a few times to get that DT fix, too.Originally Posted by divemaster
Ah! This was probably the part of the series that made me really love Eddie.
Damnit. I need to stay away from this thread. It makes me want to start the series from the beginning even though I have other unfinished books I need to complete.
Yeah. I've read it quite a few times to get that DT fix, too.
Ah! This was probably the part of the series that made me really love Eddie.
Damnit. I need to stay away from this thread. It makes me want to start the series from the beginning even though I have other unfinished books I need to complete.
I have 4 or 5 books that are all bookmarked about a quarter of the way through, because I always end up with a DT book in my hands.
There is nothing quite like it.
Currently post Wolves, trying to build up the resolve to read SoS again. It is my least favorite of the series.
Sloth Love Chunk
you don't have to rub it in
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE SoS. Gets better with every read......for me at least.
it does
it was nothing to sneeze at to begin with, either
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, I have never reread it or DT VII, so I will reassess soon. I am currently working my way through our list though, so I may be stuck at this point for some time.
Sloth Love Chunk
Just started my second read through. Just finished at Tull and up to the Way Station.
Halfway through book VII on my fourth series reach-through. This is the first with including Wind Through The Keyhole, however. That one was a little slow to get into for me, considering the wordslinger's style of story this go-round. But I must say, well worth the effort! Slowest moving for me would be IV, Wizard & Glass. But to get through the Mejis story arc, I picked up the Marvel Comics adaptation of the tale and it gave a nice mental image when reading through the book itself.
I definitely recommand everyone to read the whole series more than once, there are too many things you do not notice the first time. Currently reading SoS (2nd time), Eddie and Roland arrived at mr. King's house.
Finished my fourth readthrough. After finishing book III I read the Marvel Comics adaptation of the Mejis story, continued with book IV, then on to WTTK and completed through VII.
About 200 pages into Wizard & Glass.
Ah, the book everyone seems to hate.
(It's my second favorite King book. Not just Dark Tower, but overall.
I managed to get hold of the last three books, and The Wind Through The Keyhole, in hardback from a local charity shop for a pound each. I keep putting off reading them, as I'd like to read the first four first...maybe I'm gonna regret that and just pick up Wolves, but it's difficult since I had my son. Perhaps I didn't mention that- it was a bit of a surprise and I didn't know until I was 28 weeks pregnant. And because they're hardbacks, I can't exactly read them over his head when I'm feeding him, like I do with paperbacks...
Anyway, before I left work I managed to listen to them up to halfway through Song of Susannah. I kinda miss them though. And I'm desperate for those earlier books- especially if I could get them in hardback, they'd match the rest of my shelf
I've just re-read The Gunslinger, and will be revisited The Drawing of the Three in a few weeks (if I ever get through the Talisman! That one is taking awhile). This is now at least the fourth time I will have read Books 1-4, my 3 go around with 5-6 and my 2nd with book 7. I'm very, very interested in revisiting book seven now that I can re-read it with more objectivity than I did the first time around.
Spoiler:
It definitely helps to be able to discuss it with people who have also lived it.
For sure. Also a little bit off topic, but I re-read Salem's lot recently and noticed a possible continuity error. The main villain of the book is a type one vampire, so shouldn't that mean that he is a grandfather? Although he is described as having human form. :O!!
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