The Dark Tower

Quotes

On Genre
“In our world you got your mystery and suspense stories…your science fiction stories…your Westerns…your fairy tales. Get it?” … “Do people in your world always want only one story-flavor at a time? Only one taste in their mouths?” … “Does no one eat stew?”
— Wolves of the Calla, Stephen King (2003)
On Wealth
"What’s going on with him is a pretty old story where we come from, Roland. When my Ma used to see some rich guy on TV—Donald Trump, for instance—… "Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations," my mother would tell us. "It’s the American way, boys."
— Wolves of the Calla, Stephen King (2003)

Books

  1. The Little Sisters of Eluria

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  2. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger

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  3. The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three

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  4. The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands

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  5. The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass

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  6. The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole

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    Interesting use of a nested frame story—a story within a story within a story—all set within the Dark Tower series (as yet unfinished, by me, 2023-12-15). It's difficult to miss the echoes of Life of Pi (2001), with its refutation of the "scorpion & the toad" myth, which is signaled there on the cover. Given King's overt remixing of Baum's Oz (1900), this seems unlikely a coincidence. The author back-fits this novel into his already-completed Dark Tower series in much the way Sapkowski back-fit his Season of Storms into his already-completed Witcher series (both also graft themselves into Arthurian legend). Extending a completed story from the middle does not seem like something that would necessarily "work." And, yet …

  7. The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla

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  8. The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah

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  9. The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower

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