Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Wizard and Glass, The Dark Tower IV

Wizard and Glass, The Dark Tower IV, is the fourth book in the Dark Tower series. Wizard and Glass talks about Rolands past and how he got too the point he is right now. In this book it goes off from the ending of the recent book in the series, The Waste Lands where Blaine stops in Topeka, Kansas after being over-loaded with "bad" and "stupid" riddles that Eddie came up with too save his friends lives from Blaine's insane attempt too kill himself and his "friends". But they crash land in Topeka and they explore there surroundings. As Roland and his fellow gunslingers, including Oy, go about exploring they find that they're near a deadly Thinny, which is an evil white void that feeds on everything and creates a sickening noise and it nauseates the gunslingers. They also find that there in there world but in a different time and reality. for example, instead of the baseball team, Kansas City Royals they find out that in this world there the Kansas City Monarchs. They also discover that the Topeka perhaps the world was destroyed by a Superflu. Anyway they start to journey off too what seems like a building with a nimbus surrounding it. but as the sit for and rest for the night Roland tells a story too his friends about the grave story about his time in Hambry with his past friends Alain and Cuthbert and how they battles the Big Coffin Hunters and the traitors of the Affiliation and how he met Susan, the love of his life and how she then burned and died on the Charyou Tree for Roland. After this depressing story and night they soon head off too a gate that stood before the Green Palace. As they thought and discussed about the Wizard of Oz and how it seemed soo familiar they found a pair of red shoes for each of them and they so realize that they have too clack there shoes simultaneously too open this gate. Then they head into the Green Palace. As they head in they see a very disturbing and famililar and sickening sight. It was Blaines Train car room that they were in and they soon confront The tick tock man and Flagg or Walter, Rolands nemisis. They kill the tick tock man and then Flagg puts them inside the Rhea wizards glass which was described in Rolands story and Rhea is the Witch that ultimatly killed susan. In the Wizards ball, His friends witness Roland killing his mother because Roland thought that that she was Rhea. After there horrible expierience in the wizards ball they wake up in Mid-world and they go off on there journey to the Dark Tower.

The Dark Tower series gets better and better each time i finsih the book and i look forward to the next book and will mostly get even better! i of course give this book a 10 out of 10 and i encourage all that are fans of fantasy fiction to read the Dark Tower series.
http://www.stephenking.com/darktower/wizard_and_glass.html

1 comment:

Mr. McCabe said...

Zeus,

Half way through Wastelands is as far as I've gotten. Your post makes me want to read this series again. Why hasn't this been picked up as a movie or a tv series?

Is there anything you're struggling with in the series? Keep up the great work man! I'm glad you enjoy this series.