link with 'insomnia'

**thymeoperator** · October 14th, 2009

without revealing anything to me, please can someone reassure me that there will be a resolution to the fact that jake seems to have been born around 1965 and hails from NY but in 'insomnia' he's from maine in the '90s! i'm assuming there will be some resolution to this, as 'insomnia' was written halfway through the series, but i wanted to check...unless i missed something and 'insomnia' was set in the past! perhaps i'm just getting ahead of myself though, not having finished this series yet?

**TBlack** · October 14th, 2009

"There are other worlds than these."

**thymeoperator** · October 14th, 2009

yeah...but that wouldn't be a decent resolution for me.

**BTRNYC** · October 14th, 2009

I'm pretty sure Jake isn't a character in Insomnia...
Maybe you read something wrong.

**michal** · October 15th, 2009

Originally Posted by thymeoperator

yeah...but that wouldn't be a decent resolution for me.

Dear Constant Reader -"There are Other Worlds Out There" is really the answer to your question, not just some vague resolution like saying "Such is Life", but since you've asked us not to give you any spoilers, that's about as specific as we can be...

**thymeoperator** · October 15th, 2009

what's the name of the little boy the whole book of 'insomnia' revolves around in the end? they have to stop the explosion of a building with this boy inside because the boy is a vital piece to the dark tower, so says the book, and i swear the boy's name was jake. someone please correct or confirm this for me?

**Moderator** · October 15th, 2009

No, it's Patrick Danville. That's would explain why you mentioned Jake, though. It's been a while since I'd read the book and I was thinking I'd completely forgotten a character.

**All Hail The Crimson King** · October 15th, 2009

Originally Posted by thymeoperator

what's the name of the little boy the whole book of 'insomnia' revolves around in the end? they have to stop the explosion of a building with this boy inside because the boy is a vital piece to the dark tower, so says the book, and i swear the boy's name was jake. someone please correct or confirm this for me?

No, the boy in Insomnia name is Patrick Danville.

**thymeoperator** · October 16th, 2009

Originally Posted by Moderator

No, it's Patrick Danville. That's would explain why you mentioned Jake, though. It's been a while since I'd read the book and I was thinking I'd completely forgotten a character.

ahhh, okay - now does someone want to answer the question of how on earth i got the idea his name was jake!?

actually i think this is just another case of me reading so many of these this year that i'm mixing all the names up now - anyway, that answers my question then, thank you!!

**CarGuy#19** · May 21st, 2010

Jake was the name that Ralph Roberts saw on the saxophone in Atropos lair of goodies, that's where you got the 'Jake' part from. Atropos may have taken it as a souvenir from a different version of Jake on another level of the tower. Say Thankee-sai.

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