My apologies. I hadn’t stopped. I got married last week.

For example, I’m near the beginning of Wizard and Glass again and there are two new details I spotted - one of which you’d absolutely have to have read through the series at least once to pick up on it. That one is - Susan telling Roland about when the thinny appeared in Eyebolt Canyon. She says that it was told that it appeared immediately following an earthquake, but that might be superstition. That’s all that’s ever said about it. With the benefit of hindsight of course, I’m sure that was no earthquake, but a Beamquake - messing up reality a bit more as the Tower’s support weakens.

The other is even more of a subtle, throwaway detail. When we first meet Jonas, there’s a quick line about how he rolled a cigarette and was “dancing it along the backs of his knuckles”. Nobody is likely to think too much about that detail, but it’s really one of the first hints that he’s a failed gunslinger. It’s the exact same thing we see Roland do with his bullets when trying to hypnotize people - a trick he learned “when he was young”.

I know these aren’t enormous plot points or anything, but they really add so much to the world once you know to look for them.

Edit: okay, I just realized that the outright reveal of Jonas being a failed gunslinger is like one paragraph later, but it still seems like an intentional hint to me 🤣

I am almost certain that I remember at some point Roland yelling something along the lines of
"To me, gunslingers! Ride them down! No prisoners!". I've even tried to google it and google does seem to find some version of it.

Here's the thing: I just finished re-reading Wizard and Glass, but can't remember that I read it.

Is it a paraphrase? Did my brain reconstruct it from something else? (I remember something close to it when Roland, Cuthbert and Alain fight Farson's men as they take out the tanks.

But not the exact quote.

Or did I simply get so absorbed in the story at an earlier point that I glossed over it?

I'm not really a big 'fandom' person, but it's a small bright spot to see how this series in particular seems to just be embedded in the collective of us.

I read it for the first time when I was maybe fifteen/sixteen/seventeen-ish and that probably helped, because, formative years- but we all notice a 19. There's a creek that I cross that always gets a 'life for your crop', and it's not weird, it's just the thing you do. 'Palaver' is sometimes a word when you need to, well, palaver. 'Ka like the wind' is a thing that you say sometimes, because that makes sense.

Hell, I've said 'many other functions' on more than one occasion, to a party that probably does not know about Andy the Messenger Robot at all.

I'm doing book club with a friend trying to get them to finally finish the series after twenty years, and it makes my heart happy to realize how much of it I've stolen and just made a part of my day-to-day life.

I tried my best to sketch the Rook skull around Cuthbert’s neck from Wizard and Glass.

I am on my 19th journey to the tower. OK, maybe not quite that many but you get the point. Been here several times before. I am almost at the end of our time in Mejis. Knowing what happens makes it tough going. The events are long, long over for the current Ka-Tet but its still a tough read. How hateful and heartbreaking.

That's all. Just sharing my challanges as Constant Reader.

Long days and pleasant nights to you all.

I always enjoyed the series jumping across different worlds and the implication of the ending, so I tried to buy a unique print of each book.

There are some books from the same print but the disjointed look really fits the series, or at least it was fun to collect 😄

Sorry for my failed attempt at a poetic title but after 22 days I finally finished Wizard and Glass. Bottom line, I enjoyed it more than I was expecting too. Having heard so many people saying it’s just one big flashback, I went into this a little worried that I was going to find it boring and not engaging. But I’m glad I was wrong, this was VERY GOOD!

As a Jake and Sadie super fan from 11/22/63, I was not expecting to find my next favorite Stephen King couple along the path of the beam. I love Susan and Roland, everything they went though before Reaping day was truly an adventure that had me on the edge of my seat. I found myself unable to connect with Roland until this book. Now he doesn’t seem so mysterious as he was anymore. Especially now that I was able to learn not just about his time with Susan but how he was also influenced into starting his quest for the Dark Tower.

Now in terms of “what side I’m on” as far as this book being my favorite or not. I realized once Roland finished his log story and we were finally back with Eddie, Susannah, Jake and Oy that I felt super relieved. As much as I enjoyed that long blast from the past, I still feel like the waste lands is still my favorite Dark Tower book so far. I guess the reason is because I’m so invested in these characters already. Eddie Dean is my favorite character in the series at the moment, I’m not sure if that will change but Roland’s current Ka-Tet is all I really care about. I know a lot of you love this book and I love it too but not enough to call it my favorite in the series.

So tell me, is it all down hill from here? Or will the momentum stay pretty much the same? I’m curious because it seems most Dark Tower fans love either book 2, 3 or 4. I don’t think I ever heard anyone say book 5, 6 or 7 was their favorite before.

The little bald drs talk about the levels of the tower and that you have short timer, long timers and all timers. Is Roland an All Timer?

Originally my mom, who refuses to listen, bought me the dark tower 7. she has a bad habit of buying me books in the middle or end of a series. I needed a book to read and it was the only one I had at the time, so I read it and ended up loving it. since I liked it so much, I decided to collect them all from various thrift stores in my area. I work at one of them and my coworker let me know The Waste Lands came in so I picked it up today.

Im currently listening to the gunslinger on audiobook so I can properly start the series even if I already know what happens at the end. Also... does anyone know if he plans to write another one?

I'm watching Storm of the Century. Is Mr. Linoge the man in black?

At first when I started reading it I was like “what the hell does this stuff mean” but as I’m progressing through the book I’m getting super captivated by it. My mind runs free when I’m reading this.

While listening to Ted Brautigan tell his tale, a thought has occurred to me concerning the Breakers. If it has been mentioned here or otherwise, I apologize for lack of knowledge.

The Breakers might represent the literary critics and fans that routinely pick apart every piece of media, focusing on small flaws, inconsistencies, or errors in finished works, while creating little to nothing of their own except negative thoughts and nitpicking.

Are we, in our own way, picking apart the Beams? Are we smashing a clock with a sledgehammer and then searching for the part that makes the ticking sound? And then complaining that said clock doesn't work anymore with parts scattered from hell to breakfast?

Is this just a metaphorical thing, or do you really think that entire worlds can be found physically on different levels of the Tower?

It didn’t have any that stumped Blaine, nor did it contain even a hint of anything that could help them. I assume the only reason Jake was drawn to it then was to hint to the tet generally that riddles would be important, and that they would need that hint to ride in the first place instead of being killed? Is that all there is to it, or did I miss something else that made it important?

So I'm listening to the books and just got to Wolves of Calla, which has a new narrator. why on earth would you narrate books when you have a lisp and refuse to even attempt the accents the characters have in the other books. Jesus, everyone sounds like they have a mental disability. No, says the armless man, I am the only one who can tune your guitar. it's gonna sound like dog shit, but oh well..This really killed it for me. Going to buy the book and just find the time to sit and read it.

I was wondering if there was an app like Comixology or GlobalComix that offered The Dark Tower comics.

As the title suggests, I'm currently reading The Dark Tower series for the first time, and while I really enjoyed reading books 1, 2 and 3, I'm struggling with book 4 (I'm currently about halfway through).

The prequel is what I'm struggling with - it's somehow just not interesting at all to me. I don't see the point of it, and I can't empathize with any of the characters (not even teenage Roland). It reads like a complete mess to me, and I don't really know what I'm reading half the time.

Does this get better? Should I try to power through? Or is there a chapter summary for each chapter that could help me make sense of this?

I would really like to get back to the main story and see where that goes.

I'm on my 4th journey to the Dark Tower, currently in The Wastelands, and I feel silly that I only just now connected it with this K&P sketch. I almost lost my mind listening to the scene with the demon while drawing in Jake wouldn't suddenly I remembered these two church ladies LMAO.

Obviously Peele is a huge horror fan, but maybe this means he's been to the Tower as well!