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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

borisanne's CBR9 Review No:32 · 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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Sorry. Wrong door. I thought it was the desert.

June 30, 2017 by borisanne Leave a Comment

Here it is, Book 3 of “The Dark Tower” series, which I may not finish the whole of in the next 5 weeks, but it won’t be for lack of trying! I love this series. I love these characters. The Waste Lands isn’t as fundamentally excellent as The Drawing of the Three was, but after the action and adventure that was The Drawing of the Three there’s some needed setting up of next steps in advance of Wizard and Glass. I assume. I don’t know. […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: ake ake, bermuda triangle, billy bumbler, Dark Tower, eddie dean, jake chambers, King, Manhattan, nazi aircraft, not manhattan, nuclear wasteland, oy, roland, Stephen King, susannah dean, trains, village, wasteland

borisanne's CBR9 Review No:25 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: ake ake, bermuda triangle, billy bumbler, Dark Tower, eddie dean, jake chambers, King, Manhattan, nazi aircraft, not manhattan, nuclear wasteland, oy, roland, Stephen King, susannah dean, trains, village, wasteland ·
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I am, in short, a man on the edge of everything.

June 30, 2017 by borisanne Leave a Comment

OKAY FINE, STEVE. I am on record as not totally loving The Gunslinger but being willing to go along for the “Dark Tower” ride for a while to see what all the fuss is about. King has proven himself to me with basically everything else I’ve read of his as an adult, so he has a certain amount of capital with me. Plus, I like to read before watching, and if you think you can tear me away from Idris Elba at the end of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Dark Tower, Death, detta walker, eddie dean, jake chambers, journey, King, leaning tower of pisa, lobstrosity, mafah, odetta holmes, quest, roland, Stephen King, susannah dean

borisanne's CBR9 Review No:22 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Dark Tower, Death, detta walker, eddie dean, jake chambers, journey, King, leaning tower of pisa, lobstrosity, mafah, odetta holmes, quest, roland, Stephen King, susannah dean ·
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