Wizard and Glass
Donald M. Grant, 1997
Bracket #8
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I loved it - 5
It was good - 4
Average - 3
Only so-so - 2
I didnt like it - 1
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Wizard and Glass--Bracket 8 Runner-Up!
Wizard and Glass
Donald M. Grant, 1997
Bracket #8
Voting for this Book is Closed
Final Average Score:
4.360360360
Bracket Runner-Up!
Wizard and Glass will advance to Round 2
Last edited by mae; 03-31-2010 at 07:42 AM.
Heng Dai
Let me go ahead and give it a 5 before the routine trashing of this book begins in earnest.
I will never understand why people hate this book. I've explained before in the thread for this book how I don't consider the Mejis story a "flashback" or a distraction from the "real story".
Ok, trash away.
A 4 for me. If I'd voted on this four years ago, or so, it would have been a 5. My first read of the DT books, this was my favorite. On my second go at it, I think The Drawing of the Three was my fave with this book being on par with The Wastelands. From what I can remember, anyway.
Who knows? Maybe on my third read, it'll be something else.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”-Mark Twain
Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me....Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
-Shel Silverstein
This is my favorite of the Dark Tower series, but the last to get a five from me unfortunately. The stories were still good, but the whole side story with Mia really irked me for some reason and colored the rest of the series.
Margaret Emmie Mackey Catoe, you are, have been, and always will be my soulmate, and I love you.
Con todo mi corazon, por todo de mis dias. And I always will, in this life and into the next.
August 2, 1947 - September 24, 2010
A 5, I love this book.
I gave it a 3. It paled in comparison to the other DT books, and was my least favorite. I didn't mind Roland's backstory, but I just couldn't get into it.
A true firewasp ninja would never wear such a ridiculous sweater.
There's logic in nonsense.
Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.
I really dreaded this one ...I couldn't think of how to describe my
feelings about it, but Hannah just about summed it up perfectly.
This was my least favorite in the series, I gave it a 3.
Thanks Hannah
The answer is within
I gave this one a big fat 2. Probably the lowest I'll rate a King book. I wrote a lot about my feelings in the Baronies section, so I won't repeat myself here. I'm just hoping this book won't make it out of this bracket, and so I've done my part.
I love this book as it is. 5
Roland would have understood.
A definite 3 for me. Love it because it's part of the DT series, could have totally lived without Susan Delgao. Just sayin'.
"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
This is the first DT volume I didn't like more than the previous one. I still recognized it as having greatness, and so I still voted it a 4 (plus it is still The Dark Tower), but I didn't like it as much as some other volumes. The backstory in particular was hard to get into, and I even read The Gunslinger Born BEFORE I read this.
It was good. The first time I read this book I was freaking out about how much I loved it. I talked about it with anyone that would listen. It didn't hold up too good for me on reread. *shrug* I've probably read this book cover to cover twice and skimmed about three to four times and it has never been as good as it was the first time.
Lalalalaaaa, lalalalaaa
Lalalalaaaa, lalalalaaa
sugarpop <3
I like it very much as it standsSpoiler:
5 for me.
The kindness of close friends is like a warm blanket
Ooh, another 2 and even a 1!
That 2 is from me. The only thing that saved it from being a 1 was the beginning with Blaine, and the end with the emerald city. Also coming off of The Wastelands which is my favorite of the series, this was a huge letdown.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
one of the best in the DT series...
5* WnG ftw!!!
Fully agree, Heather. Afterwards I've come to appreciate the so-called flashback portion a bit more, but taking the novel as a standalone work, which is what we're supposed to do when we rate these books, that was a very jarring and overlong section.
Almost the same - although there was also that big battle near the end, and some more nice things (although not too many), so 3 from meOriginally Posted by Heather19
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 really liked it, not as much as some of the others, but it was still good and important for the story.
... From the keyboard of Kevin
"A gunslinger knows pride - that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff."
"Officer Benzyck! It's good to see you and there's some jam right there on your collar, praise God!"- Rev. Earl Harrigan
I didn't care for this one too much. I probably would have enjoyed Roland's backstory, but I was trying to rush through it, because I knew that my favorite character, the Tick Tock Man, would be returning at some point. When he actually did, it was a pretty big letdown.
Have you heard of people with short fuses? Well, I have no fuse at all, and there's a thousand could testify to it if I hadn't stilled their tongues for good.
You can't ignore my girth.
If I had voted right after my first read of this book I probably wouldn't have given it more than a 3. For some reason, it just didn't grab me.
But since I've reread it at least 4 times since finishing the DT series, I love it.
I give it a 5.
5 from me. I thought it was just wonderful. But then, I don't think I could give any SK story a bad review....it's a sickness of mine.
same thoughts as myself
the middle just really draaaaaggged along. i couldnt give a rats ass about susan delgado. i liked the book, loved how it gave alot more history on john farson and all that, but man the love story part just didn't float my boat
4 for me (merely bc it IS the dark tower series) as a stand alone, i'd prob. rate it a 3
I have many leather bound books.
I'm kind of a big deal.
Changing the plans that I’ve been setting on, I’m scared by the way that my life is getting gone
IWasSentWest, that's how you should've rated it, as a standalone work, solely on its own merit.
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