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Stephen Kingcast

Episode 101-The Wind Through the Keyhole

Stephen Kingcast

Constant Reader

Arts, Tv & Film, Books, Arts:books

4.7681 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2016

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

I don't think any of us expected a return to Mid-World, but I'm not complaining!  Though the journey might be over, All-World is a large and mysterious, and I want to spend more time there.  And that's exactly what we get with this episode!

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0:00.0

I feel the breath in my face

0:03.0

Her body close to me

0:07.0

Can't look in her eyes

0:11.0

She's out of my knee

0:17.0

Just a fool to believe

0:19.0

Are you anything she needs she's like the wind

0:25.6

feel your breath in my face

0:34.6

Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen King's One Man's New Things on the Works of Stephen King.

0:39.9

Each week I'll review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King and the chronological order of publication.

0:45.1

And this week was an absolute treat. As King decided to reopen a door, we all had thought closed, locked and left behind with the 2004 publication of the Dark Tower, a return

0:56.2

to not just Midworld, but also a visit with OI, Jake, Susanna, Eddie, and even ruined himself

1:02.6

the Gunsinger, in more pleasant moments before the tragedy is depicted in the concluding

1:07.0

novels of his magnum opus, moments that allow a celebration of these beloved characters

1:11.4

and the power of storytelling in Stephen King's 2012 publication of The Wind Through the Keyhole.

1:18.6

So here's the deal with Win Through the Keyhole. When it was released in 2012, it came at a time

1:24.3

where I was just, I just wasn't into it.

1:28.8

And you'd think that a new Dark Tower novel would make me shoot through the roof with excitement.

1:33.0

And don't get me wrong, I was excited, but it's not as if I had a countdown.

1:37.4

I wasn't bursting out of my skin to get this novel for a number of reasons.

1:41.3

One, my peak king fandom was long behind me.

1:44.0

Two, I was still burned

1:45.3

from my initial read of the conclusion of the Dark Tower eight years before. Three, the idea that

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