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Jul 04, 2012ginger_bug rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
King's whole Dark Tower series is an exercise in complete wacky and this installment is no exception. However it is one of the better ones (really I like them all except the Drawing of the Three, and the parts with the riddling train) and I enjoy the focus on Susannah Dean. This follows the ka-tet through 1977 and 1999 New York in a world that might or might not be our own but is probably the real one, and there are cameos from characters in other Stephen King novels, (which reference I didn't really get, as I've only read these, Dreamcatcher, Carrie and the Running Man) and a visit from the godlike world-creator himself. I can't decide whether these books are brilliant or just a masturbatory exercise for the author, but I do know that I can't stop reading them.