Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, Book 4)

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Summary: Can't wait for DT5
Review: Listening to the book on tape I kept telling the reader to hurry up as I wanted to find out what was going to happen next. All I can say now is PLEASE Mr. King hurry up and give us DT5!

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Summary: My absolute favorite
Review: The Dark Tower series is my absolute favorite literature. It's just good entertainment. If you think you don't like Stephen King, try this series. It's not horror, it's fantasy, and even a bit of sci-fi. You may not like one or two parts, but the whole story is amazing. No matter how many are in the series, I will be forever waiting for the next one! That's the kind of hold it gets on you!

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Summary: Absolutely one of King's best books
Review: In the fourth installment of King's DT saga readers find out more about Roland's past and his human side. This book is entertaining and completely the reader into the world that King has created. Anyone who feels this book starts off slow, hasn't read much King. The way The Stand and the Wizard of Oz are tied in is really interesting. This book is a fun read if you like King and the DT series.

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Summary: Better, they keep getting better
Review: Fantastic tale that further blends all the universes of Stephen Kings world together. Rolands flashback is a fantastic tale. The only sore part is the defeat of Blane, which seemed hastily written to get on with the new story.

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Summary: Cowboy vs. Computer, Eastwood meets HAL
Review: Ok, I've been reading The Dark Tower series now since I was ten; and I'm hoping Stephen will have the strength do finish it before I'm thirty. I was very excited to recieve the fourth book in a series I started so long ago. This book stays true to Stephen's style and manor in the prevoius three books. But from page one, i couldn't help fell that there was a part of the book that Stephen wouldn't, or could for some reason include. I felt there was a part missing. Maybe we'll see it in another flash back in a novel yet to come. Over all I liked "Wizard and Glass". This may not be his best in the series, but it was very enjoyable. We see Roland as a normal human in this book. Something that has not shown through his rough outer layer in previous novel. All though I was very dissapointed to see Stephen rely so strongly on another novel of his to keep the story moving, it does offer a strange look into how Rolands world and our own are running beside each! other and often merging together to form a strange flux foriegn to us all.

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Summary: Deepens the interest for Dark Tower fans.
Review: This book is absolutely amazing. The flashback to Roland's past was an engrossing experience throughout. The death of Susan Delgado was pretty crushing, I had to read it a few times to let it sink in. I'm sure any DT fan already has this, but if not, get it now.

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Summary: Good...could be better!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I love Stephen King and have read everything he has written. I am just a little dissapointed with Wizard and Glass, though. The other books in the DT series were riviting, but W & G took too long to actually get going. I will say this, once it started to speed up, it never lets go until the very last page! Can't wait for the next one!!!!!

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Summary: A perfect blend of familiar tales, references and new twists
Review: This is the best of the Dark Tower series so far. We have be slowly strung along, burning to know more about our hero and why he is the way he is. The book pulls references from everywhere, including some of his own past stories. The weaving of these references with new twists and new characters immediately grip you into the "story within the story". A mix of "The Eyes of the Dragon" and "The Stand". Incredible.

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Summary: A Story within a Story: King Triumphs
Review: Wizard and Glass begins where it should: aboard a psychotic train with a fondness for riddles. After a narrow escape, one finds the intrepid fivesome on the Path of the Beam once more. After a particularly gruelling day, a story by the night's campfire seems appropriate. The story of Roland's youth begins to unfold. And as much as Roland seems helpless to stop himself from its telling, the reader is drawn deeper into the intrigue in which Roland and his two friends find themselves. Indeed, one becomes so caught up in Roland's story, one begins to forget they're reading a book in the Dark Tower series. Don't misunderstand: this is not a bad thing. Rather, it is this intertwining tale which enlightens the reader to Roland's true self. A must-add for the serious King collector and followers of the Dark Tower saga. Mr. King, regarding your afterword: Amen.

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Summary: Stunning and surprizing performance by Mr. Stephen King
Review: First of I must say that reading this book after the satisfying "Desperation", left me between two worlds. The frighening- and the romantic/tragic KINGdom. The story of "Wiz&Glass" is indeed not only a continuing of the previous Dark Tower-series. This one turned out to be a standalone, romantic story. I have never spent a time reading a book which made me express so many different feelings; horror(Rea, the which), action/thrill(with the Gunslingers vs Big Coffin Hunters) and the sad,romance(between Roland and Susan). As a matter of fact I got so mad when the story of Susan and Roland ended that I only sat down crying when their fate revealed itself to me.I understood that King had helped me fall in love with Susan and the love they felt for eachother. At the same time I got so mad at King because he could do such a thing. I understand that it had to be this way, and it was "Ka" that had to send Roland on his quest to find the DARK TOWE! R. It's a gift from S.King to us all!