Roland tells his friends about his past and the events that led to the murder of his first love and the start of his quest for The Dark Tower. Roland and his ka-tet manage to escape from Blaine thanks to Eddie and find they have veered off the path of the beam and have passed through a thinny (a sort of magical barrier) to yet another version of Eddie, Susannah and Jake’s world, this one where most of the world’s population has been wiped out by the super-flu from King’s novel The Stand. STRUCTURE: King uses a story-within-a-story structure for Wizard and Glass.
I enjoyed Wizard and Glass more this time than in previous reads.
I think Roland and Susan’s story is a great one but I am always eager to get back to Roland, Eddie, Susannah and Jake. Wizard and Glass had always been my least favourite of The Dark Tower novels. The town of Candleton was a poisoned and irradiated ruin, but not dead after all the centuries it still twitched with tenebrous life – trundling beetles the size of turtles, birds that looked like dragonlets, a few stumbling robots that passed in and out of rotten buildings like stainless steel zombies, their joints squalling, their nuclear eyes flickering. A tale of long-ago love and adventure involving a beautiful quixotic woman named Susan Delgado. And, having narrowly escaped one world, they set out on a terrifying journey across the scarred urban wasteland to brave a new world where hidden dangers lie at every junction: a malevolent computer-run monorail hurtling towards self-destruction, Roland’s relentlessly cunning old enemy, and the temptation of the wizard’s diabolical glass ball, a powerful force in Roland’s first love affair. The Dark Tower beckons Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and the four companions he has gathered along the road. TITLE: THE DARK TOWER IV: WIZARD AND GLASS
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