Long days, pleasant nights, and welcome to Kingslingers, a doof media podcast journeying through Stephen King's Dark Tower series and beyond.

I am your host, Constant Reader Scott Daly, and my aura is kind of like a, like a bluish green.

And I'm your co-host relative king newbie Matt Freeman.

And Amber is the color of my energy.

Whoa.

This week on the show, Omnia, Insomnia.

Ooh, Omnia. Interesting.

Insomnia continues as we read and discuss chapters 3 through 5 of King's novel.

Ralph confronts Ed Deep Now, who name drops a certain reddish regent.

And then as Ralph's insomnia continues to get worse,

things start to get a little colorful. Matt, what did you think of this week's reading?

You had a lot of fun with that intro, didn't you? I did. Yeah, no, a lot happens, right? I mean,

I know this was an unusually large amount of pages, but like we really ate through some plot. It's funny because last week, I feel like a lot of my commentary was like,

you know, it's really, I'm really impressed at King's ability to just kind of take it slow. And,

and no, like the plot really seems to be picking up now. I mean, we still don't know where it's going, but it seems to be picking up. The plot, plural, which is one of the things I want to spend some time talking about this

week, kind of prefacing what our conversation is going to be later.

There's a lot of things happening in this book, and they all seem like they're disparate events.

And I think the way in which King is weaving these disparate narrative elements together is really interesting to me.

Yeah, me too. I'm really, really getting into this book, by the way.

Good. I'm glad. Very much. Well, I think we're close to 200 pages in of like 700. So you still got a

long, long way to go. It's a good time. I'm happy. I'm enjoying this on reread as well. I mean,

there's a lot. Like, you just think about a book differently when you're reading it for the show.

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