Insomnia and Dark Tower

[JohnDalglish]

So what, what book out there is next that relates to DT that is worth the read? Not saying Insomnia wasn't..but damn did I expect just a little bit more.

Hi,

Sorry you were disappointed wih Insomnia, I love it personally.

Have you read Little Sisters of Eluria and Everything's Eventual in Everything's Eventual yet?

Or Low Men in Yellow Coats in Hearts in Atlantis?

Or the graphic novels?

Or Robin Furth's invaluable Concordance and Bev Vincent's The Road To The Dark Tower?

And check out the connections in the link Ms Mod provided.

Long days and pleasant nights

[throne_92]

From what I've researched, the best thing to read out of what you listed would be Little Sisters of Eluria and Everything's Eventual in connection to the DT series.

BTW, I wanted to ask, have you read the Talisman and Black House? And if so, why or why not do you like/dislike it more than the DT series?

Jack Sawyer from Straub/King did so well there..it led me to read over 5000 pages of King's other works to keep the taste in my mouth!

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

Oh yes, I've read The Talisman and Black House several times and I love them too.

I don't like it quite as much as DT purely because it remains unresolved; when Sais King and Straub write the long awaited third part I may well revise my opinion.

And DEFINITELY read Low Men IMO

Long days and pleasant nights

[Lily Sawyer]

I'm currently reading Insomnia for the first time. Helen Deepneau has just had her face rearranged by Ed, and Lois has asked Ralph on the sly to come over to her place, because she wants to talk...

It's a great read. I'm not considered a geriatric yet (although some of the twentysomethings I know may beg to differ); but I like Ralph very much and don't think of him as an Old Person. It's his attitude about life and how he thinks and expresses himself that render him relate-able.

[bluesology]

I'm listening to Insomnia for the first time - almost finished. Having just completed another re-read of the Dark Tower saga, I loved all of the connections this book had to DT - so much so that I plan on inserting it into the Dark Tower series the next time I go through it. Regarding the end, I will admit that I had the tiniest little nerd-gasm when young Patrick draws the picture of Roland confronting the Crimson King at the Dark Tower. It also shed a lot of light for me on the Dark Tower's ending. I have read a lot of criticism of the last three books of the series arguing that King was dialing it in, that he just wanted to finish and just wrote something for the sake of getting it done. But reading this enforces my belief that the scope of the Dark Tower story was more laid out early on than maybe it seemed. Insomnia was published in 1994, even before Wizard & Glass came out. If King already had this image in his head of Roland facing down the Crimson King even then, I think he deserves credit for his vision and creativity. It's not like he was just throwing plot devices against the wall and going with what stuck. Maybe he didn't know exactly how he was going to get there but it would seem that as he was writing Insomnia he had at least an idea of where the Dark Tower story was leading.