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Wizard and Glass - Dark Tower IV

Stephen King

8.7 (25 Ratings) Rate It

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Roland, Eddie, Susannah, Jake, and Jake’s pet bumbler survive Blaine the Mono’s final crash,...

Dark Tower The Gunslinger

The Wolves of the Calla - Dark Tower V

Stephen King

8.5 (23 Ratings) Rate It

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Roland and his tet have just returned to the path of the Beam when they discover that they are being...

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The Dark Tower - Dark Tower VII

Stephen King

8.8 (19 Ratings) Rate It

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At the outset of the final installment of our saga, Roland’s ka-tet is scattered across several...

Dark Tower The Gunslinger

Mourning Headband for Hue: An Account of the Battle for Hue, Vietnam 1968

Nha Ca and Olga Dror

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Vietnam, January, 1968. As the citizens of Hue are preparing to celebrate Tet, the start of the...

Colin Newman recommended XX by The xx in Music (curated)

XX by The xx

2009 | Alternative

8.0

(4 Ratings)

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"My son Ben went to Elliot School, which is quite famous for producing musicians. The first one that I knew was Kieran Hebden, who makes music as Four Tet. There was a culture at one point that was encouraging people. Ben was in the same class as the xx’s Romy [Madley-Croft] and he knew Jamie [Smith] quite well, and I knew his parents. We even went to their holiday house in Norfolk. The xx were the shy ones, they were like a little gang. Jamie was the most outgoing one, and he was pretty shy. I knew quite a lot about how that record happened, that they tried first with a producer and then did it in a house studio. We were living just down the road from where that was going on."

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Rachel Maria Berney (114 KP) rated Wizard and Glass - Dark Tower IV in Books

Dec 6, 2018

Wizard and Glass - Dark Tower IV

Stephen King | 1997 | Horror, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Thriller

8.7

(25 Ratings)

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A good step on the road to the dark tower

I just finished reading this, took a few days, more than I expected. The first 3 dark tower books I couldn't put down and flew through; this one started well, gripping, but in the middle it slowed down and dragged a bit.
We start where we left off in Dark Tower III, it's fairly fast paced until we get a bit of Roland's back story. Whilst I love hearing about what happened to Roland before he met Jake and made a new ka-tet, this story in a story was slow paced and dragged, you were just waiting to get to the good bits.
Once Roland had told his story, there wasn't much left to read. King only moves their journey to the dark tower a little bit. Overall, you do get to know Roland a lot better, which is a good thing. I am still looking forward to reading the next book.