Welcome to the site, Cinder.
I am sorry but I had to move your thread and I changed the title, too so that you could get more answers.
Anyway I am sure if you reread that part you won't need others' answers anymore.
Welcome to the site, Cinder.
I am sorry but I had to move your thread and I changed the title, too so that you could get more answers.
Anyway I am sure if you reread that part you won't need others' answers anymore.
Quick question, I just started the third book and I'm still not completely clear which fingers on Roland's right hand are missing. I'd search around this thread but I didn't wanna risk stumbling onto a huge spoiler
Anyhow, thanks for the help!
The riddle Eddie couldn't remember *spoilers
Greetings....just finished TDK series last evening, just under two months worth of reading.
I have many questions, I'll start with this.
During the Wastelands, Jake is trying to light a fire and Roland whispers a riddle to him.....I thought that this riddle would be needed to stop Blaine in Wizard (Eddie even seemed to have it on the tip of his tongue the entire time).
I was sure that we would see this riddle again, one of many seemingly "red herrings" throughout the series (give me some time to come up with more - my head is still swimming from the CODA).
What was the significance of this riddle, if any?
Well put. I'll have to check tWL to see if the riddle itself was significant. Certainly the fact of it happening was, but the significance may have been just in the type or style of it, or its purpose. It was definitely key, though, in what it meant to Eddie, later.
This thread is kind of a spoiler. I think it needs to be moved to the DT5 forum."...in order to ease his nerves, take his mind off the responsibility of lighting the fire, Roland had--
He asked the kid a riddle.
Eddie Dean blew breath into the keyhole of his memory. And this time the tumblers turned."
--Wizard and Glass
Do you mean: What's dressed when night falls and undressed when day breaks?
As Path said, I don't think the riddle itself - answer, a fire - was key: it was simply an exercise to relax Jake's mind
Originally Posted by Omerta
That's all this riddle was. A way to calm Jake while he was being nervous trying to light the evening's fire. It holds no significance to Eddie stopping Blaine other than the memory being a catalyst sparking the thought process Eddie needed in order to realize Blaine's weakness and defeat him. Good question though, Omerta. Nice to see people working their brains more on the riddling, which has always been one of my favorite parts.
its the pointer and the one next to it.
I regret leaving my soul
I forgot I needed it, to feel
maybe when I die
I'll just grab it real quick
Quick Eddie Question
Didn;t eddie get shot during the naked gunfight in the bicep?? Why doesn;t this get mentioned again through there beach travels and affect him at all...
another question, that is kinda useless but ill still throw it out there lol, is what glass is broken during the katz drugstore scene..."And with no warning at all, he whirled and the gun in his fist crashed again. A man bellowed.Plate glass flew onto the sidewalk..................." But what happens to what glass? the next few paragraphs talks how he shot the knife out of the guards hand but thats all and how he saw him through the mirror glass up in the corner of the store....
To your first question, yes Eddie got nicked in the arm by a slug, but it was nothing too serious in the greater scheme of things and didn't get mentioned again as far as I recall.
Second question, not sure I understand you?
The window glass got broken yes.
The mirror glass he saw the guy in was one of those convex mirror jobs mounted up near the ceeling. That didn't get broken.
Can you clarify the question?
Well i just got done reading that part when i came on here and asked that first question...But that second question was stupid...i was just wonderin how the glass window did break..they only said he fired one shot and it hit the knife. question rlly doen;st matter to storyline or to the series lol
what year is it during jack morts time...when roland is in his mind??
1959
New Fan. Question about release dates of the books.
I just read the first Dark Tower book and I am hooked. I should have stopped to look up what some of teh words in the book meant, but could not wait to finish it.
In the book, Stephen King talked about making some changes to the book in 2003 and releasing it again.
Looking at his site, it looks like he made changes to most of the books in the series.
I am hoping to buy all of the books, but want to make sure I get the newest edition. I was looking on EBay and most did not say what edition or the year on them.
Is there a way to tell the published/release date? Maybe he changed the name to them or there is a way to tell by what the book looks like.
I cannot wait to read the rest of the books and look around this site more for additional information about them.
Thanks
i believe after he gets grazed by the bullet and goes through the door with roland it goes to the "shuffle" part where time slips by and little details are given besides roland's recovery from the poison. i assume the wound healed during this time when eddie was pulling roland along and taking care of the water runs.
as far as the year: in mort's mind if you are talking about the memories roland sees then yes it would be 1959...but mort is ready to push jake when the gunslinger enters and i think that happened in the late 70's like 1977...but don't quote me on that
doug
how do you make god laugh?
The only book in the series that was revised was the first one cc. Most any copy you buy these days will be that one. Don't worry about the other six, they are now as they were written.
Welcome to the site, great to meet you.
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Thank you very much for the response. I really appreciate it.
I will be buying then right away because I cannot wait to read this series.
Nice to meet you as well.
Welcome to the boards. Now that Matt answered the question, we'll move this to the section where the Tower books are discussed.
Trying to find a quote...
I'm almost positive I came across this when reading the Dark Tower series (I'm thinking it was in Wizard and Glass), but I can't seem to find it anyyyywhere. Does,
"They were young, their blood ran hot, and they never doubted their ability to change everything"
sound familiar? Its driving me crazy. Thanks for the help.
Damn, that does sound like WaG, but I don't know where.
I think this may end up getting merged somewhere to get you some better traffic.
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
Using Microsoft Word search function, I did not find that quote in W&G.
I'm moving this with a short redirect. Hopefully we'll find the answer.
two questions
One: There was something Roland said, a phrase (I don't remember which book, maybe 5) to Jake I think about basically listening rather than talking. Anyone know what I'm talking about. I loved it & don't want to page through the whole book to find it.
Two: There was something specific that the "mode" a gunslinger goes into when he's in battle was referred to by Roland or King (I don't remember which). It was blood fever or battle fever or something like that. Anyone?
Are you sure Roland was talking to Jake? It sounds a lot more like the sort of thing he'd tell Eddie.
The only thing I can think of is when Roland allows Jake to go off with Benny their first night in the Calla. He says something like "Talk little. Listen much." Sounds kind of like Yoda, huh?
Question 2: I think Roland describes it as a Battle Fever in The Waste Lands, both when he's rescuing Jake from The Grays and when he's battling Blaine later. It's described as a red, dry battle fever that Roland just falls into without a thought.
Maybe when Roland is teaching jake how to start a fire in The Wastelands? but i dont know the page of that either.
Eddie probably wouldn't have felt a thing because he was going through heroin withdrawl.
He would have been so violently ill that a nick to his arm would have been trivial.
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