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 and the chronological order of publication. 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 to not just Midworld, but also a visit with OI, Jake, Susanna, Eddie, and even

Roland himself the Gunslinger.

In more pleasant moments before the tragedy is depicted in the concluding novels of his

magnum opus, moments that allow a celebration of these beloved characters and the power of storytelling in stephen king's 2012 publication of the wind through the keyhole so here's a deal with win through the keyhole when it was released in 2012 it came at a time where i was just, I, uh, I just wasn't into it.

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

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

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

One, my peak king fandom was long behind me.

Two, I was still burned from my initial read of the conclusion of the Dark Tower

eight years before.

Three, the idea that this story would be shoehorned in between books four and five did not

excite me.

I'm not a fan of lost or missing stories.

In general, I find them to lack any tension.

And if they're ever read chronologically, they never truly seem to fit in. So, I mean, for instance, if someone were to read these novels literally, then that person might find it a little strange

that the Stark Blast was never referred to again

when the events of the Gunslinger, the Drawing of the Three, the Wasteland's and Wizard and Glass

were all referred to by the time all the characters hit Wolves of the Collar.

But that's only if someone was foolish enough to read the series this way.

I'm going to get into it in much more detail, but this novel needs,

guides, to be read in the chronological order of publication. It needs to be read after the events

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