A brilliant literary move!

[CDennisMoore]

What I've always wondered about WIZARD AND GLASS is, if this series were ever filmed, whether for TV or theaters, would this story be moved to the beginning, or worked into its proper place. When I first read it, I hated that our main story didn't move ahead at all, but time has proved it to come the way it did at just the right time. If and when the Dark Tower is ever filmed--and you know it will be--I hope they keep the integrity of the books' order intact.

[Ranger_Strider]

What I've always wondered about WIZARD AND GLASS is, if this series were ever filmed, whether for TV or theaters, would this story be moved to the beginning, or worked into its proper place. When I first read it, I hated that our main story didn't move ahead at all, but time has proved it to come the way it did at just the right time. If and when the Dark Tower is ever filmed--and you know it will be--I hope they keep the integrity of the books' order intact.

If they want to do the Dark Tower, I think they get that. The narrative of such a big story often runs away back to get it forward.

[RobertWriter]

It's really hard for me to speak intelligently about this story. I get too wound up and emotionally caught up. I would feel better just saying "IT WAS SO AWESOME!!" But i gotta be more specific. It's been a while since I've read it but I think I'll be reading it again soon. It is not only the best dark tower book but, the best book I have ever read. Wizard and glass is a great use of the flashback story, I agree. You get a good sense of Roland's childhood. It helps you become more intimate with the creation of Roland's personality. And his first betrayal for the dark tower. The love story and tragedy is better than any of the other famous stories (Triston and Isolde, Romea and Juliet, Braveheart) Braveheart comes close but, W&G is the best story ever (I hate to be so single-minded). If W&G was its own movie I believe it would be best of the year. The team was also amazing. That a group of young teens were almost invincible, little bad as*es. My favorite scene is Cuthbert with his slingshot in the saloon. When he shoots Depape in the hand.

[KaLikeWind]

I, like many other people had my mind completely blown by Stephen King with the Dark Tower series...

Like many others, this wasn't the first Stephen King story I'd read or seen in a movie... I'd read many... I'd seen many...

But nothing... nothing prepared me for the door that I had opened when I started reading The Gunslinger...

I admit that it took me a moment to get into that first Dark Tower novel... I found Stephen King's descriptions of the desert and the way Roland's body and mind were deteriorating from his lack of provisions difficult to follow at first despite the fact that I was reading the Revised Edition (I hear the original was even harder to follow)...

But by the time I met the man in the hut and his crow (their names escape me... its been a while) and heard of Roland's coming of age battle with David against Cort and heard the story of Roland's adventures in Tull, I was hooked and realized I had stumbled upon something far greater than anything else I had ever read by Sai King.

I thoroughly enjoyed The Drawing of The Three and Wastelands... I had already read The Stand so The Man In Black/Walter O'Dimm/The Walking Dude/Randall Flagg was already my favorite literary character ever... and I genuinely enjoyed the characters of Odetta Holmes/Detta Walker, Jake Chambers, Oy, and Eddie Dean and their trials and tribulations... and I loved the riddling of Blaine The Mono (Blaine is a pain and that is the truth)...

But by the time Wizard And Glass (the subject of this rambling) came out, I was drooling at the concept of hearing more of Roland's story... as I remember, Eddie and Susannah and Jake had asked him a number of times some of his story and he blew them off each time saying that he would tell them when the time was right.

But I thought the story of Meijis... The story of Roland Deschain, Cuthbert Allgood, Alain Johns, and Susan Delgado was the most exciting and heart wrenching story I had ever seen Sai King put to print. And I don't think it could've come at a better time.

My life is forever enriched by the stories of The Dark Tower... Wizard and Glass being my favorite... and his words have stayed with me always.

[Ranger_Strider]

Umm, I think the Battle of Jericho Hill is something we never get to see, per se. We get glimpses here and there throughout the DTS: we find that Cuthbert and Alain meet their end there, we find that the horn is lost there.We find that Roland is set on his quest for the Dark tower there. But this happened way long before the battle scene in Wolves. I should think an 8th installment of the DTS would be in order to revisit the Battle of Jericho Hill and the events that surround it. I'll be willing to bet that Rhea of Coos will play a major role in that, as will Walter, The Good Man, Randall Flagg, The Dark Man, etc...

DTS 4.5?