Links between these books also include the following reference to The Walkin' Dude from The Stand on page 95, "Someone had spray-painted over both signs marking the ramp's ascending curve. The city is deserted, as this version of the world has been depopulated by the influenza of King's novel The Stand. The four gunslingers and Oy the billy-bumbler disembark at the Topeka railway station, which to their surprise is located in the Topeka, Kansas, of the 1980s.
Blaine is unable to handle Eddie's "illogical" riddles and short-circuits. After Jake, Eddie, Susannah and Roland fruitlessly riddle Blaine the Mono for several hours, Eddie defeats the mad computer by telling childish jokes. The novel begins where The Waste Lands ended. Subtitled "Regard", it placed fourth in the annual Locus Poll for best fantasy novel. It is the fourth book in the Dark Tower series, published in 1997. The Dark Tower cycle continues to set its author on a plane apart.Wizard and Glass is a fantasy novel by American writer Stephen King. There are new evils.new dangers to threaten Roland's little band in the devastated city of Lud and the surrounding waste lands, as well as horrific confrontations with Blaine the Mono, the piratical Gasher, and the frightening Tick-Tock Man. In The Waste Lands, we are joined with old acquaintances: the boy Jake who has been introduced in The Gunslinger, along with Eddie Dean and Susannah, who are so prominently featured in The Drawing of the Three. The first volume in the cycle, The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, tells of the haunting, mysterious character of Roland of Gilead, the last gunslinger, in a world that has "moved on." A second volume, The Drawing of the Three, picks up Roland's quest upon a deserted beach of the Western Sea. Writing of his masterwork, King reveals that he is ".still able to find Roland's world when I set my wits to it, and it still holds me in thrall.more, in many ways, than any of the other worlds I have wandered in my imagination."
Inspired in part by Robert Browning's narrative poem, Stephen King has written once again of his twenty-year affair with The Dark Tower and its strange world that is both so familiar and unfamiliar to us. The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands follows The Gunslinger and The Drawing of the Three as the third volume in this remarkable series, which well may be the most extraordinary and most imaginative cycle of tales in the English language.
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