I fell in love with Susan Delgado

[plgordon]

I guess This is a tribute to SK's writting skills with regaurd to character development, but a fair way before the end of Wizard and Glass, I had a fairly strong emotional attachment to Susan! Is it just me. Did anyone else fall victim to his literary trappings!

[Bryan James]

She wasn't a completed character. That's probably why I also loved her in my way.
She's why I'd rank DT4 very near the top of my King's List.

In my opinion, Susan was one of King's strongest characters BECAUSE he left her open and let US fill in the blanks. We all got to personalize her.

~BJS

[nicklove09]

OF COURSE! His brilliant!
That was an amazing book in the series!
Susan was such a great characters, it's so sad how she dies,
and poor Roland :(

[michal]

I had a crush on Edy. Always was a sucker for those handsome big mouthed wiseguys...

[Sean of gilead]

reading this book young really helped me attach to all of the characters in Roland's tet. I think the attachment to susan may have even been a little inappropriate

[morganelafee]

my favorite character is Oy ( i hope it is really his name, because i've only read it in french, and in french, it's Ote), Jake's pet. Even if i'm a woman, i fell in love with Susan too. This character is a powerful one, it broke my heart the way she...vanished. She's the only one who could touch Roland the way she did. But every character are worth reading the book, it's the entire cast that makes this story a classic.

[Nutty Bavarian]

When I was reading the part where Roland watched Susan burn I wanted to jump into the book and try to help. :sad: I don't like feeling powerless to do anything. It sucks

[thymeoperator]

susan was brilliant. her ending was just so disturbing.

[nygene40]

I'm nearing the end of "Wizard and Glass", and I have seen Susans' end coming for awhile. I only hope she reappears somewhere along the line in the remaining books. I Remember Jake saying something like "There are more worlds than this one" right before he died the 2nd time, so I hope this is true for Susan as well.

[Pucker]

Of course we fell in love with Susan. She was doomed. It's impossible not to love a doomed woman.

[GNTLGNT]

Yeah Bryan, Roland personalized her several times:oh:but, yeah-she was so richly written and described, that any of us with an XY chromosome felt drawn to her-and yes, even loved her a little...

[Suzana]

She wasn't a completed character. That's probably why I also loved her in my way.
She's why I'd rank DT4 very near the top of my King's List.

In my opinion, Susan was one of King's strongest characters BECAUSE he left her open and let US fill in the blanks. We all got to personalize her.

~BJS

I liked her in the begining. But I don't know, she looked kind of weak, her personality seemed weird to me. Maybe if things did not turn the way they did, she wouldn't make Roland happy. He needed a girl with a strong personality, like his, and Susan lacked it. She complained a lot and didn't do much.

And besides, the only love that lasts forever, untouched, is platonic love - when you actually get to be with the person for some time, it changes. See, I'm not saying it gets bad; I'm just saying it changes. He was madly in love with her till the end, because they had little time together.
I don't dislike Susan, though. She was captivating in her own way.

One huge spoiler button here, Ms. Mod? :grinning: I'm having trouble with it in my computer, I don't know if the problem is here or with the site. ;)

[Bryan James]

I liked her in the begining. But I don't know, she looked kind of weak, her personality seemed weird to me. ...I don't dislike Susan, though. She was captivating in her own way.


She wasn't a completed character...

...Susan was one of King's strongest characters BECAUSE he left her open and let US fill in the blanks. We all got to personalize her.

[Suzana]

She wasn't a completed character...

...Susan was one of King's strongest characters BECAUSE he left her open and let US fill in the blanks. We all got to personalize her.

I know that.
I did not say she was weak as a character, she's as good a character as any other King's character. I just said the way I picture her, shes weak and lacks personality. Just my opinion.

I think I wasn't clear, sorry.
:)

[MarioB]

Hello from Italy.
I just finished reading DT4 this morning, because yesterday night was too late to walk with Roland to che Glass Castle.
Not after what happened to Susan.
This book hurted me very hard, i want to say to King that.... He did it.
He wrote a love story, incredibly beautiful and dramatic, and i think that this depends from the rest, the outline.
The story happens in a time where "jokes aren't welcome": cospiracies, betrayals, ancient mysteries... and, in the middle, love.
The purest love of human life, because is the first, and is young.
As a cure, a dream. And at the end, love lost.
"ROLAND, I LOVE YOU". Oh Stephen, I will never forgive you this, seriously.

Wolfes of the Calla is waiting me, i repeat to King: he did it. Damn. :down:

[Nabila]

I know that.
I did not say she was weak as a character, she's as good a character as any other King's character. I just said the way I picture her, shes weak and lacks personality. Just my opinion.

:)

Susan Delgado was 16 years old.:smile2:

The contempt she openly showed the conspirators showed great courage. And her dignified acceptance of her fate while still praying for her Roland's safety is even more heartbreaking because of her age. In my book, She's absolutely fabulous!!!

[randallFlaggfan1]

Oh, man...I have got to re-read DT!! I do not remember any of this!!

[Bryan James]

Not to divert attention from DT4, but there's another reluctant heroine...similar but more developed...that I have read and read and red very well. I can't remember her name, but I would know her if I saw her.

Fans of Ms. Delgado might appreciate Ken Follett's "Pillars of the Earth."

It's way fudging good (Danielle Steel for guys who know that Pro Wrestling is just an apeshow) and jacktards that need to brag about books with a lotta pages will have bragging rights.

[kittykiller]

I would have to say in my recolection that susan was a great carector and that roland fell on to her with the platonic love that was mintioned earlyer . but as statd they were young and teens tend to fall on oneanother for the smallest reasons. so called puppy love. :love:

in the end I say i loved her too. I will be rereading this book agin in the next week and have to recorospond to this post with a newer recalling of those page. live long, lough hard and die happy...:blush:

[randallFlaggfan1]

Not to divert attention from DT4, but there's another reluctant heroine...similar but more developed...that I have read and read and red very well. I can't remember her name, but I would know her if I saw her.

Fans of Ms. Delgado might appreciate Ken Follett's "Pillars of the Earth."

It's way fudging good (Danielle Steel for guys who know that Pro Wrestling is just an apeshow) and jacktards that need to brag about books with a lotta pages will have bragging rights.

I've been curious about Follet's Pillars of the Earth. Actually, it is on my reading list.

[Bryan James]

I've been curious about Follet's Pillars of the Earth. Actually, it is on my reading list.

Bump it up a few notches. Say, to "right now." You will be hooked from the opening scene. One of the best novels I've read, and I've looked at a few.

Yes, it was an "Oprah's Book Club" pick a couple years ago, but don't let that stop you. She's picked some very good ones. I couldn't get in to Follett's followup "World Without End" at all, though.

[randallFlaggfan1]

Bump it up a few notches. Say, to "right now." You will be hooked from the opening scene. One of the best novels I've read, and I've looked at a few.

Yes, it was an "Oprah's Book Club" pick a couple years ago, but don't let that stop you. She's picked some very good ones. I couldn't get in to Follett's followup "World Without End" at all, though.

Thank you, Bryan! I could be mistaken, but I believe that Pillars of the Earth was Oprah's very first Book Club novel.

[Bryan James]

Thank you, Bryan! I could be mistaken, but I believe that Pillars of the Earth was Oprah's very first Book Club novel.

Mayhap. I don't follow Oprah regularly...I'd ask my mother, but she remembers even less than I do though she watches Oprah every day. It WAS on her list, and I saw a show she did with Follett, pumping up "World Without End." I'm pretty sure that he pumped out WWE pretty fast to ride the Oprah wave...but I still regard "Pillars" as a great novel. Actually it's like three great novels, so I give it three thumbs up. Read it.

[randallFlaggfan1]

Now I am even more curious about it. I will be sure to read Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, while I'm at it.
Have you read any of Follet's other novels?

[Bryan James]

Now I am even more curious about it. I will be sure to read Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, while I'm at it.
Have you read any of Follet's other novels?

I've read a few of his spy novels. "Eye of the Needle" was cool, because I was horrified as a kid with the 'scissors scene' in the movie.

'Pillars' is fantabulous, 'World Without End' didn't grab me, but let me know if I missed out.

If you don't like 'Pillars of the Earth,' I will buy the book from you (and even pay for shipping) because I don't have a copy...every time I loan it out it never comes back.

[randallFlaggfan1]

I will be sure to let you know. But I don't know when I'll get to them..

[KaLikeWind]

I find it amusing that you guys went on a rant about a different author's writings...

But to me, the truly amusing part is that earlier in this thread, someone said something about Pro Wrestling being an apeshow...

And then a few posts later, someone (perhaps the same person?) abbreviated this other author's second book, World Without End as WWE....

Get it? Nevermind...

I'm going back to reading It....

[KaLikeWind]

But for the record, I also fell in love with Susan Delgado...

Kudos to Stephen King on that one... He made it very hard to be a heterosexual male (or even a homosexual female from what I've heard from a few Lesbian/Bisexual women I know who read Wizard And Glass) and not fall in love with Susan...

His descriptions (and even the illustrations in the Marvel Graphic Novel, A Gunslinger Born) depict her as absolutely breathtakingly beautiful... on top of that, her courage and devotion and naivete mentioned in earlier posts in this thread... and the tragic way she left the story... and Roland being in a position where no matter how much of a Badass Gunslinger he was, he couldn't do a goddamn thing to save her from her fate... made her incredibly easy to love...

I admit it... I'm a grown man and I cried at the end of the Meijis tale...

But then, Sai King also made me cry at the end of Wolves of The Calla and Cujo... so... meh...

[Spooky Chick]

I'm a heterosexual female and I fell in love with Susan, which was stirred up again whilst reading the Graphic Novel. She had such a hard, short life, which she faced with such courage. How could anybody not feel some love in their heart for her?
Of course I also love the Gunslinger himself so I'm a bit jealous of Susan :p

[Todevod]

I love Susan Delgado.

It broke my heart when Sai King described her final thoughts. "ROLAND, I LOVE THEE" :sad:

[Ghoulman]

I also fell in love with Susan Delgado. I was barracking for the couple to get out of Meijis, safely to Gilead ... only to have my heart wrenched by the way they lost so completely in the final round. I don't usually cry when reading books. But I was screaming out to Roland to do something other than stare, transfixed, to save her ....