Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Stephen King cast, One Man's Musings on the Works of Stephen King.

Each week, I will review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King in the chronological order of publication.

And what you're getting out of this episode, this is a bonus podcast, a supplementary piece that is a companion to my larger review of the deads, sorry, the dark half, which was released on the same day.

What I'm going to do in this episode is I'm touching very faintly on the dark tower.

Typically with bonus episodes, I examine the connections to the Dark Tower.

Now, there aren't really any connections to the world of the Dark Tower with the Dark Half.

I mean, there aren't any truly explicit or strong connections but I'm going to talk

about something here that is going to spoil the end of the Dark Tower so if you

have not finished the Dark Tower series I would stop listening now go finish the

Dark Tower series and then come back so just be warned that this this review has heavy spoilers for the events of the Dark Tower series and then come back. So just be warned that this review has heavy spoilers

for the events of the Dark Tower.

But what I'm really talking about here,

it's not really a what, it's not about connections,

it's really all about Alan Pangborn.

And so you might be wondering, you know,

why are you talking about Alan Pangborn

in a Dark tower bonus episode?

And what it comes down to is this.

Let me put Alan into a little bit of context here.

Alan Pangborn is the Stephen King archetypal hero realized to his full extent.

All right?

I mean, he is the every man who both comes to the rescue

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