Finished Wizard and Glass today. Holy shit, I really think this was the best one yet. The background Roland story was incredible. Didn't really care about the present story (except for the showdown with Blaine in the beginning, that was great), but I'm fairly sure the present story was a secondary thing in this novel. All the focus was on Roland and Cuthbert and Alain and Susan in Hambry, and holy shit, this story was great. I'm pretty sure this is the best Stephen King thing I've ever read. I'm not ashamed to admit I was openly crying in the end; and it's kinda embarrassing, I was reading this on the train, and my stop came midway into the climax of the story, so I walked into a bar on the way home to finish the book; and when it got to that particular plot point, I was unable to hold the tears back. From the previous novels, I was able to guess how this would end, but still it was a heart-wrenching experience.
Not only I loved the feelings this novel made me experience; I especially loved the setting—a forgotten village somewhere on the outskirts of the world, with their own traditions and customs; everyone pretty much knows each other, and then there are the affable 'strangers', who may or may not be cunning and smart, standing against pretty much everyone, standing against the disease that caught most of the village—not a literal disease, but a political one alright. We had a feeling what Roland was capable of as a gunslinger, but this story really manages to capture his badass nature in the beginning of his path.
I think I'm going to take a break from this series for a bit now, but as I said, these three books (first one not included) are currently my favourites among Stephen King's work. This is a fantastic journey for me, one I never expected to get from King's books.
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