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Summary: this book is cool
Review: this book is cool and its.....just cool
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Summary: A good nightime thriller
Review: I thought Wizard and Glass was a very exciting book about Roland of Gilead. This being the fouth book in the series about the gunslinger, Roland, I felt this book went along well with the other books in the series. Leaving off right were the third book ended this book takes you on a ride of a childhood adventure of Roland. If you have read any of the other books in the series this one is a must.
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Summary: A gripping story
Review: This is another example of Stephen King's fine writing. He sure knows how to tell a story - given that he has one to tell. Indeed most of the book deals with the story of the gunslinger's youth, and is hard to put down. The end of it physically hurts as it is so intense.Unfortunately the author has felt compelled to surround this story with some "dark tower stuff" and it seemed to me that he was just filling paper. The story is mostly meaningless and leaves one thinking "uh?". I therefore recommend quickly skipping the non-relevant stuff and delving into Roland's youth which is a masterpiece.
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Summary: The Wonderful World of Roland Of Gilead.
Review: A beguiling read. Continuing the story of Roland and his aspiring gunslingers, King weaves a deft web of romance and adventure set in a parallel world of lost chivalry and mysterious Dark Towers. I confess that I loved this book. Stephen King, for this reader, has always meant the occasional foray into his fantasy novels (The Stand, The Talisman)and the least horrific of his short stories. I approached the Dark Tower series feeling a strange mixture of reluctance, contempt and curiousity. A gamble worth taking I assure you! I would never have believed that this sprawling tale, peopled with sorcerers, witches and the courtly gunslingers, could have captivated me so entirely. King has a depth of characterisation that beggars belief and should make him the envy of his peers. His phenomenal popularity lays him open to accusations of second-rate fiction; this is an injustice! Certainly he is unusually productive - particularly in his provocative contributions to the horror shelves - but when Stephen King writes, he creates painfully real characters. I loved the insights given into Roland's character. The love affair between our hero and his lady love was genuinely tragic and adds a touch of authenticity to Roland's emotional frigidity. This reader was totally hooked. And the next installment? I fully expect to wait and writhe, in an agony of anticipation, for quite some time.
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Summary: Heartwarming yet heartbreaking
Review: A heartwarming and heartbreaking exploration of the romantic, softer side of Roland. A tremendous insight for those who have enjoyed the Dark Tower series and are curious exactly what may have led Roland to be so callous and weary. A spellbinding page turner
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Summary: Anticipation for The Dark Tower 5
Review: In this wonderfully twisted and romantic tale of love and adventure, King mixes his own brand of fiction and his image of reality to bring us suspense, horror, and satisfaction with this success of a novel. It is, in my mind, unsurpassed by any in it's creativity.
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Summary: Wizard and Glass
Review: I was able to read this book very quickly because the emotions Roland expressed opened me into his world. Not to say that I didn't understand him before, but that the intimacy involved brought a new level of understanding for his character. Understanding the severity of pain he encountered due to his loss only encouraged me to want him to get to the tower. Leading to my point; Where is the next part?
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Summary: An Enchantment of a Book
Review: Wizard and Glass continues the epic tale of Roland Deschain and his obsessive quest to find a mysterious and evil structure known as the Dark Tower. This, the fourth volume in the Stephen King's Dark Tower series, delves into Roland's past, and finally details many of the events in his history that have often been alluded to in the previous three books. Sitting on a turnpike in the Kansas of King's novel The Stand, Roland weaves for his companions Eddie, Susannah, Jake, and the racoonish creature Oy the tale of his long-ago love affair with Susan Delgado and the violent chain of events that their passion burned amongst. The gunslinger Roland is one of the most entrancingly complex and human characters I have ever encountered in literature, and finally getting a glimpse beyond his brickwallish facade is an irresistible treat for those who have followed the Dark Tower series. An additional pleasure comes in the chance to get to know his oft-mentioned friends, Cuthbert and Alain, and the army of enemies they face in this epic flashback, many of whom are, surprisingly, almost as forgivable and at times even likeable as Roland himself. King demonstrates a talent for evoking sensations other than horror in his readers as he utterly entwines them in the lives and minds of Susan and Roland. The attachment is so strong that the events of the story produce honest emotional reactions in the reader, making the characters' joys and sadnesses his own. I was thoroughly depressed when I finished this book; however, I view that as a testament to the quality of King's writing. Many readers may be skeptical at the Wizard of Oz tie-ins at the end of the novel. Done badly, they could indeed be quite cheesy. However, they seemed to me to further the blurring of the lines between fantasy and reality, a theme that extends through all of the Dark Tower novels. What if what we see as a simple story is actually someone else's existence, or vice versa? In the end, this novel is without a doubt an essential for fans of the Dark Tower series. It could also, perhaps, stand on its own, as the bulk of the novel concerns Roland's past, and requires little background knowledge of him or of the quest he and his companions have undertaken. Some of the emotional impact would be lost, however, if the reader did not have prior experience of involvement with the characters.
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Summary: Wizard and Glass
Review: I started going down this path with Roland roughly 7 years ago, and have really enjoyed his character, as well as seeing how King ties all these worlds to each other through music and things like that. What has me bothered about this last book is the way he is tying this book with other books that he has written. I have always noticed that he brings characters from other books into new works, references to Pennywise in The Tommyknockers, a reference to The Dark Half in Bag of Bones, things like that. I always liked those little trips down memory lane, it made reading a King novel almost like running into old friends. What I did not like in Wizard and Glass is that he tied it in so much with The Stand. He has the Man in Black being Flagg, and also being Merlin. I liked that it is possible that this story goes back to the days of King Arthur, as Merlin lives his life backwards, but I was always under the impression that Marlin was a WHITE WIZARD. And that whole trip down the Yellow Brick road, with the ruby slippers, that to me was sort of like King ran out of stuff to say, so adapted and molded The Wizard of Oz in a way to be filler. I liked his exploration of the relationship with Susan, it shows that yes, Roland was human. And it shows what changed him. Overall I liked the book, but was disappointed in the way he is tying all that "captain trips" and stuff like that into this one. Will still buy the rest in the series, because I am just that kind of a Roland junkie.
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Summary: masterfully written
Review: I read the Dark Tower series in order and although I found it hard to start i found it equally hard to stop once i got going. By the thime i got to the Wizard and Glass i could not put the book down. I am very excited to read the last three books and was disappointed that they were not available at this time. I hope that they are out soon and know that they will continue to be as good as the first four. Is there any way that someone can notify me when they arrive on the market it dont want to miss out on the great adventures that Roland and his ka-tet encounter next.
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