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Some moments are beyond imagination.

August 5, 2017 by borisanne 2 Comments

Okay, I’m back. I haven’t lost my mind, or my grip on reality. Everything’s fine. It took me a long time to read this final installment of “The Dark Tower” series. Sure, it’s super long, but it’s shorter than a few of the other installments. I just truly didn’t want it to end, so I stretched it out, found distractions and procrastinations, and delayed the inevitable. This final chapter is less full of revelation, and doesn’t so closely ressemble a conspiracy theorist’s corkboard with pushpins […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction Tagged With: aaron deepneau, Arthur, beam, bear, blue heaven, casse roi russe, cbr9, clearing at the end of the path, crimson king, dandelo, deschain, detta, discordia, dogan, eld, fantasy, fedick, Fiction, gan, gun, Gunslinger, horror, irene tassenbaum, jake chambers, john chambers, john cullum, keystone, King, mordred, moses carver, odetta, oy, Oz, patrick danville, richard sayre, roland, Rose, science fiction, Stephen King, stuttering bill, susannah, thunderclap, todash, Turtle, walter, walter o'dim

Post by borisanne · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction · Tags: aaron deepneau, Arthur, beam, bear, blue heaven, casse roi russe, cbr9, clearing at the end of the path, crimson king, dandelo, deschain, detta, discordia, dogan, eld, fantasy, fedick, Fiction, gan, gun, Gunslinger, horror, irene tassenbaum, jake chambers, john chambers, john cullum, keystone, King, mordred, moses carver, odetta, oy, Oz, patrick danville, richard sayre, roland, Rose, science fiction, Stephen King, stuttering bill, susannah, thunderclap, todash, Turtle, walter, walter o'dim ·
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First the smiles, then the lies. Last comes gunfire.

July 16, 2017 by borisanne Leave a Comment

Homestretch on Ye Olde Darke Towere Marathone! I’m actually starting to be sad that there are only two left plus the movie. And there had better be whole bunch of those, too, is what I’m saying, do ya. If I’m being honest, I think that Stephen King didn’t start leaning into the conceit of this series until about the time that I went all in, and that’s probably the reason I was finally able to invest fully. The more I think about it, the clearer […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: 'salem's lot, ake ake, billy bumber, callahan, cbr9, chap, dark thirteen, Dark Tower, door, dr doom, eddie, Gunslinger, Harry Potter, hidden highways, jake, King, mia, midtown east, multiverse, new york, nineteen, nineteen ninety nine, ninety nine, oy, quest, roland, science fiction, star wars, Stephen King, susannah, vampire, vampires, wolves

Post by borisanne · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: 'salem's lot, ake ake, billy bumber, callahan, cbr9, chap, dark thirteen, Dark Tower, door, dr doom, eddie, Gunslinger, Harry Potter, hidden highways, jake, King, mia, midtown east, multiverse, new york, nineteen, nineteen ninety nine, ninety nine, oy, quest, roland, science fiction, star wars, Stephen King, susannah, vampire, vampires, wolves ·
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I think she’s part of another story.

July 6, 2017 by borisanne Leave a Comment

I have been consistently conflicted about “The Dark Tower” series. Somehow, in spite of my frustrations, annoyances, aggravations, and declared boredom, I cannot put it down! This book, Book Four, Wizard and Glass, is a perfect example of this conflict: I am in love with the characters who come from “our” world: Eddie, Susannah, and Jake, the normals with whom, of course, we’re meant to identify, are the perfect hook for me. And then there’s sweet and loyal and probably brilliant, Oy, the billy bumbler […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: abigail, ake ake, captain trips, Dark Tower, eddie dean, emerald city, glass, Gunslinger, horses, jake, jonas, King, Love, marten, monarchs, oy, pink, rainbow, randall flagg, rhea of coös, roland, Stephen King, susan, susannah dean, walter, wizard, wizard of oz, wizard's glass

Post by borisanne · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: abigail, ake ake, captain trips, Dark Tower, eddie dean, emerald city, glass, Gunslinger, horses, jake, jonas, King, Love, marten, monarchs, oy, pink, rainbow, randall flagg, rhea of coös, roland, Stephen King, susan, susannah dean, walter, wizard, wizard of oz, wizard's glass ·
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Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

February 19, 2017 by borisanne 3 Comments

I’m taking on “The Dark Tower” series! It starts with The Gunslinger. It was reassuring to read King’s preface to the edition I picked up, in which he describes the creation of the story: he was very young, and he was very green, and it took him a very long time to finish the series. And then, as he finished, he went back and revised for clarity and consistency. I admire this, and appreciate it as a reader, and knowing that he was young and green […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: black, cbr9, desert, drought, evil, good, Gunslinger, King, knights, magic, sacrifice, squires, Stephen King, time travel, western, white

Post by borisanne · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: black, cbr9, desert, drought, evil, good, Gunslinger, King, knights, magic, sacrifice, squires, Stephen King, time travel, western, white ·
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A dystopian disappointment

July 20, 2014 by popcultureboy 1 Comment

After ploughing through the biggest of the big books with The Quincunx, I was, as I saw someone put it on Twitter after back to back reading The Luminaries and The Goldfinch, “yearning for a pamphlet”. And what better palate cleanser, I thought, than the opening volume of Stephen King’s epic Dark Tower series? It’s a trifling 210 pages and it’s the opening gambit to a series of books that increase in page count as they do in scope. Bound to be a winner, right? Well, as it turns out, no. As it […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #CBR6, Dark Tower, Dystopian, fantasy, Fiction, Gunslinger, Stephen King

Post by popcultureboy · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBR6, Dark Tower, Dystopian, fantasy, Fiction, Gunslinger, Stephen King ·
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