Dark Tower 4: Wizard and Glass - Stephen King Reviews

What astounds me about Stephen King's epic work 'The Dark Tower' is the intrigue it emits. Written in seven parts and spanning just over 20 years from the publication of the first part (The Gunslinger) to the seventh and final part (The Dark Tower), each part steadily chronicles the voyage and quest of Roland of Gilead, presumably the last ...  Read the complete review

Well we waited for a long time for this book. King has said one of the reasons for the delay was he was scared to start writing a love story! The book (finally) finishes the cliffhanger ending of book 3 that saw Roland and his crew hurtling to death on a train. I won't give any details away, but obviously they survive. They ...  Read the complete review

Wizard and Glass is the fourth book in the Dark Tower series. We join Roland and his friends where we left them in the last book speeding towards their deaths on Blaine the mono, a psychotic speaking train with a thirst for riddles. By leaving this part of the adventure unfinished in the last book King has ensured that this book starts at a good ...  Read the complete review

I enjoyed the The Gunslinger. I loved The Drawing of Three. I found The Waste Lands slightly disappointing, but by no means bad. Wizards and Glass, though? This put the nail in the coffin for me, for the Dark Tower series but also for Stephen King as an author. Wizards and Glass begins where The Waste Lands finished off, with the whole ...  Read the complete review

Roland and his Ka-tet, now on-board the derranged monorail known as Blaine...face their greatest challenge to-date...saving their lives...all of them. With successfully solving the riddle posed to them by Blaine, Susannah, Eddie, Jake(just recused from the clutches of the keeper at the house in New York), Oy and Roland find themselves now ...  Read the complete review

Roland and his ka-tet finally reach Topeka with their lives. I won’t tell you how they beat Blaine the pain, as that would spoil it, but suffice it to say they survive, Blaine doesn’t and they reach their destination. Or do they? After climbing out of the ruined train, just one more casualty of this dying world, they discover that they ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

I have been a Stephen King fan since way back when he wrote his first novel Carrie.He has the art of you not being able to put the book down. The tension builds up and the ending is never as you imagine it will be. I cant say I have a favourite book because they are always so different. From the real horror to the macabre and down right mind ...  Read the complete review

Background The book "Wizard & Glass" is the fourth book in the series known as "the Dark Tower", which has been keeping us all enthralled for the last 20 odd years. Synopsys In this novel it is the turn of Roland to tell us about his passage to manhood. Based in the town of Hambre, midworld. The book tells ...  Read the complete review

Wizard and Glass was an amazing experience to read. I had waited years after the conclusion of Book three in King's Dark Tower series (entitled 'The Waste Lands') to see what would happen after the incredible cliffhanger. I had read on the internet that the fourth volume was mostly concerned with a romance story from the past of the ...  Read the complete review

I usually read King’s thriller stuff (The Shining, Rose Madder, etc), but I thought that I would give this book a try. I finished it in a week (but it’s big, mind you). I couldn’t put it down! I can’t wait for the next instalment. The best bit has to be the talking dog thing with the shoes… If you want a funny (yet ...  Read the complete review

Currently the most recent of the Dark Tower (the fifth book is expected at the end of 2001), 'Wizard and Glass' continues the narrative of Roland and his group as they leave behind the city and enter the Blasted Lands. However this is mainly briefly covered in between long visits to a time about fifteen or twenty years before, when Roland ...  Read the complete review