Dark Tower discussion

Post your spoiler-laced Wastelands thoughts here.

Has anyone read Shardik, the book that gives the bear its name?

no....have you?

Nope.

well.....maybe we should! :)

I'm actually reading Shardik so far it's pretty good.

After Mir/Shardik dies, the ka-tet finds a group of small robots wearing a track into the ground from going around in endless circles. Anyone think this might have been foreshadowing to the end of the series?

Dan wrote: "After Mir/Shardik dies, the ka-tet finds a group of small robots wearing a track into the ground from going around in endless circles. Anyone think this might have been foreshadowing to the end of..."

Good point. I think so. But I always thought if they were wearing a track for 10,000 years (possibly) It should have been a very deep trench instead of a track.

Random thoughts:

Oy really shouldn't work because this was obviously King trying to incorporate a 'cute' creature into the story, but damn if I still don't love that bumbler.

I always wish we would have seen more training sessions with Roland and Eddie/Susannah.

I still get furiously angry when Gasher is beating on Jake when he's forcing him to run through Lud.

Oy's great. He seemed lame at first glance but now I like him more than Susannah.

I couldn't wait for Gasher to get what was coming to him, even after all the other times I've read The Waste Lands.

Dan wrote: "Oy's great. He seemed lame at first glance but now I like him more than Susannah."

Me too!

I love Oy! I feel the same way about Gasher......he's discusting!

Also, near the end when Roland faces down Blaine and Eddie says something like, "You better look out! They used to call him the Mad Dog of Gilead!" Is one of my favorite bits from the whole series.

I think this gets brought up again later in the series but that is a huge continuity error about Henry being an injured Vietnam vet in Drawing of Three, yet in Waste Lands, it's 1977 and Henry hasn't joined the army yet.

Kemper wrote: "I think this gets brought up again later in the series but that is a huge continuity error about Henry being an injured Vietnam vet in Drawing of Three, yet in Waste Lands, it's 1977 and Henry hasn..."

In book six and seven, right?

Yeah, somewhre in there where King got all cute and wrote his errors as being part of the story.

Kemper wrote: "Yeah, somewhre in there where King got all cute and wrote his errors as being part of the story."

DC Comics did something similar with Superboy Prime punching the walls of the universe prior to Infinite Crisis.

Dan wrote:
DC Comics did something similar with Superboy Prime punching the walls of the uni..."

Isn't that how they explained Jason Todd coming back from the dead? Weak...

Kemper wrote: "Isn't that how they explained Jason Todd coming back from the dead? Weak..."

Indeed. It was pretty weak. I didn't mind Superboy going nuts and punching the heads off of several Teen Titans, though.

What's the woe multiple layered story had so much going on in this volume like reading couple of different stories and not getting bored. That really a skilled writer, so many writers when they get to 3rd or 4th in a series just let us down King surpasses that.

Only with I did not part with my limited edition signed M Grant

Correction wish

BTW do you think the M Grant Limited signed are going to get even more expensive as time goes by. If you have whole collection same numbered edition crazy prices.

Lou wrote: "What's the word its a multiple layered story had so much going on in this volume like reading couple of different stories and not getting bored. That really a skilled writer, so many writers when they get..."
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I am really looking forward to the Magician in the next volume.

I loved whole idea of The Dark Tower so much that these are my first reads, after reading gunslinger and owning limited edition with drawings was putting off getting into it. So now the journey has really begun!

Let's hope there no disappointments in following volumes as King's wriing has yet to disappoint me.

Lou wrote: "BTW do you think the M Grant Limited signed are going to get even more expensive as time goes by. If you have whole collection same numbered edition crazy prices."

I wish I had the signed Grant editions.

I wouldn't say there are any real disappointments in the later books, although a lot of people seem to hate Wizard and Glass.