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I say love, oh, love, oh, love can broken is love.

Oh, love, love, please tell me what have I done for you to hurt me all in fun?

All in fun.

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

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

And this week I'm examining one of King's big ones.

A divisive novel within his ongoing Dark Tower series.

The tale of wizardry, witchcraft,

of love and sacrifice, the imagery rich and beautifully detailed story that expands the already fleshed-out mythology of the multiverse that he had begun in earlier installments.

A novel that begins on a train, ends with the Emerald City from the Wizard of Oz, and returns to the plague-decimated world of the stand.

It's the tale of Roland the Gunslinger's most formative period of time, where the boy became the man we know him to be, the tale of his first love, which, unsurprisingly for our gunslinger, is a doomed one, and during

these pages we see why he's both a romantic and as heavily guarded as he is.

The novel is 1997's The Wizard and Glass.

Like I said, this novel is divisive among King fans.

For fans of the Dark Tower, many either love it or hate it, and I can see both sides.

Now personally for me, this was a huge novel, huge guys.

This was the first new Dark Tower book for me.

Up until this point, when I had begun to read Stephen King, he had already published

The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three, and the Wastlands.

So for me, there was no waiting period in between those novels.

When I finished one, I simply picked up the next one.

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