A Total Revelation (Dark Tower 4: Wizard and Glass - Stephen King)

Member Name: moongod

Product:	Dark Tower 4: Wizard and Glass - Stephen King
Date:	25/05/01 (73 review reads)
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Advantages: Superb writing, Strong characters, So tangible, you feel you can step into the world

Disadvantages: You'll crave more

This book made me do a total u-turn on Stephen King's writing. I had previously read the occasional writing of his over the years. Managing the first 3 Darktower books, which were, admittedly slow going.

However, Wizard and Glass took residence in my back pocket on a train journey from Malaga to London (almost 3 days), and whilst reading it, it was as if the cogs suddenly all fitted together and the genius of King's writing was clear.

Upon arrival in England, I then had to dig up all my Stephen King books and re-read them all, and they opened up a new depth and they continue, it's like peeling away the layers. The Darktower Sequence aren't horrors, but fantasy and yet they still chill you to the core - a dark look at human nature, fate and a bit of dark magic. King skips in and out of modern and a made-up kind of olde speech, between two minds - just as he himself sat across from himself and decided where he would take this story that he started as a teenager and whether he could do the story the same justice.

It's a book of hope and aspiration, sheer ambition and love. It will leave you just praying that the sequence gets finished, although I wonder if it ever will. If Roland finds his way and suceeds, then isn't that the antithesis of what it's all about?

Read the three before, read this, read the other three again then read the rest of Stephen King's writing...you won't look back, I promise!

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