I greeted the news with caution. Whilst i enjoyed the DT series as a whole, I loved and adored and drowned myself in the first three books. After that, somehow, it didn't quite grip in the same way. King was still a raw talent when he wrote the Gunslinger and I, for one, thought the rewrite kinda diluted that rawness. Of the later books, Song of Suz was the one that, IMO, recaptured that rawness. The promise of more stories immediately makes me wonder which author will write them - the King of raw, hurtling story or the King of literary correctness.

I DO console myself with the afterthought that a new book will be written by KING...so the dialogue will be leaps and bounds above that to be found in the graphic novels, which is, frankly, drivel.