So I blew through the first 3 books and was hooked, then had to wait FIVE DAMN YEARS for book 4. Did I mention book 3 has a cliffhanger ending? Yeah…
If you didn’t get past the lobstrosities, that’s book 2 and the story completely changes through 2 and 3.
4 is largely a flashback to when Roland was a kid…
King then promised he was “going to write 5, 6, and 7 without getting up to go to the bathroom” and instead, he got hit by a van and almost killed. (!)
Misread that as “Gilead Age”. Need my caffeine.
Gilead has TWO literary connotations by the way, most people get the first one:
https://the-handmaids-tale.fandom.com/wiki/Republic_of_Gilead_(Series)
2nd one is worth examining too:
https://darktower.fandom.com/wiki/Gilead
Interesting, never read the Dark Tower series so I had no idea.
But y’know, I do think there’s another famous book that is included “Gilead”…
I attempted the dark tower series and kind of lost steam around the endless beach and lobstrosities… it is worth pushing through?
So I blew through the first 3 books and was hooked, then had to wait FIVE DAMN YEARS for book 4. Did I mention book 3 has a cliffhanger ending? Yeah…
If you didn’t get past the lobstrosities, that’s book 2 and the story completely changes through 2 and 3.
4 is largely a flashback to when Roland was a kid…
King then promised he was “going to write 5, 6, and 7 without getting up to go to the bathroom” and instead, he got hit by a van and almost killed. (!)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2000/06/19/on-impact
I’m glad he got to finish the story, but in my mind, the first 4 were far, far better books than the last 3.
There are ZERO flashbacks in 5-7, I’m not sure if that was an intentional choice after book 4, but it makes the narrative lesser IMHO.