Unlike most of you here, I'm a Stephen King fan first, and a Dark Tower fan second. Not much of a fan really, to me the Dark Tower novels are simply other King books. I also only recently started reading them, and I'm now about a quarter or a third into Wizard & Glass. Now forgive my insolence, but I'm finding this very lengthy flashback quite slow going, and very jarring in light of the preceding action. I loved The Drawing of the Three; being a slow reader that was probably the fastest I ever finished a book of that size - in under a week. I know it will get better, King's books always do, but it just feels very different at this point.