Monthly Archives: August 2017

Book Review: The Dark Tower by Stephen King (The Dark Tower #7)

Posted on August 29, 2017 by Tietsu

This book is strange. It brings the dark tower series to an end but it does so with an awareness that seems to call to King to take and try every possible narrative strangeness he can muster. It was visible … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Song of Susannah by Stephen King (The Dark Tower #6)

Posted on August 24, 2017 by Tietsu

Finally, we are back to proper pace. No longer strangling back in the rooms of the past or the empty pathways of a dusty, broken town, we are dragged back into a rhythm closer to that of The Drawing of … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King (The Dark Tower #5)

Posted on August 22, 2017 by Tietsu

This book suffers in much the same way the fourth book does: it is slow. Walks when it needs to run, as if fighting against itself, fitfully roving towards a pay off like a damp-fused firework. King seems to try … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Wizard and Glass by Stephen King (The Dark Tower #4)

Posted on August 17, 2017 by Tietsu

This book is a mess. The prologue is a poorer version of the third’s final chapter. The rest of the book seems clumsily contrived to force out the truth of Roland’s past. And so we are left with 100 pages … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Waste Lands by Stephen King (The Dark Tower #3)

Posted on August 15, 2017 by Tietsu

“My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the working of his lie On mine, and mouth scarce able to afford Suppression of the glee, that purs’d and scor’d Its … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King (The Dark Tower #2)

Posted on August 10, 2017 by Tietsu

“Yes, yes, honey, I know you wish to stay up longer, but daddy must watch a gunslinger procure antibiotics from a pharmacist. No honey, I don’t expect you to understand. I expect you to sleep. Yes, daddy loves you, but … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Gunslinger by Stephen King (The Dark Tower #1)

Posted on August 8, 2017 by Tietsu

Stephen King writes that there are two types of writers: “architects” and “gardeners”. Architects design their work in detail before even beginning to build and gardeners throw seed to the earth and see what grows. King falls, by his own … Continue reading →

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The Answers You Can Never Know

Posted on August 4, 2017 by Tietsu

She crosses in front of him, some part of him compelled to follow. After several steps she stops, crouching down like an inquisitive child. She picks something up from the ground. She examines it, the flower blossoming in her hand as … Continue reading →

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