374: Just Give Me 35 Years

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2017

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

It took thousands of pages over seven novels, but eventually Stephen King finished his genre-busting series, The Dark Tower—and eventually we finished it too! Join four faithful readers who have taken the journey with Roland and his Ka-Tet and are ready to report back. We’ve got 30 minutes of non-spoiler discussion for prospective readers, followed by a lightning-round palaver about all seven main-sequence books, and how they link with other parts of King’s work.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 374, October 2017.
0:11.2	Welcome back, everybody to The Incomparable.
0:13.0	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:14.0	We're here.
0:14.9	I'm convening an episode of our book club.
0:17.2	It's a very special episode.
0:18.5	It's an unusual set of a panelist in the sense that you
0:21.9	must have read seven books to ride this ride. This is, and I foreshadowed this on a previous
0:28.2	episode. This is the single episode of The Uncomparable that required me to do the most pre-work
0:33.8	in order to do this episode. Because yes, a a year ago i bought the books required to read the
0:40.4	entire seven volume stephen king's the dark tower series and i finished volume seven about a week
0:48.0	ago or maybe a week and a half ago on my vacation so a lot of the a lot pages, a lot of words, according to Wikipedia, something around
0:57.9	4,000 pages, leads to this point where we're going to talk about the books.
1:01.7	We're not talking about the movie, although Dan has seen the movie, so maybe he will share
1:05.0	some thoughts about that.
1:06.5	That's a spoiler alert.
1:08.1	Dan Morin is here.
1:09.0	Hi, Dan.
1:09.4	I'll just introduce you now.
1:10.4	Hi, Dan. I'll just introduce you now. Hi, Dan.
1:11.5	How does this work?
1:12.4	Hi, Jason.
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