Monday, May 7, 2012

Stephen King's Wizard and Glass - The Dark Tower Book 4 - Continuing

Wizard and Glass has proven so far to be interesting. Far from the gritty Clint Eastwood-level manliness of The Gunslinger, book 4 of the series involves witches and oddly handled teenage romance. This part of Wizard and Glass deals with Roland's first mission outside of Gilead. He is accompanied by his friends Cuthbert and Alain, and they pose as members of some government order from New Canaan. Roland meets Susan Delgado, a girl in a strange situation (she's bound by her word to become the mayor of her town's babymama) who he apparently falls in love with.
The action in Wizard and Glass so far has circled around a man named Depape. He is an outcast gunslinger who never gained the title. I haven't finished the book, but there's got to be an interesting showdown at some point.