Friday
Jan232026
Friday
Jan232026
Returning to the Tower III.B: The Drums
Friday, January 23, 2026 at 2:51AM The thing about The Wastelands is that it really does have a driving beat.
Friday
Jan162026
Returning to the Tower III.A: Torn Pages
Friday, January 16, 2026 at 2:16AM So I wound up accidentally tearing out two of the last five pages of The Wastelands.
tagged Stephen King, The Dark Tower in Screen and Page, The Dark Tower, ramblings
Stephen King, The Dark Tower in Screen and Page, The Dark Tower, ramblings Friday
Jan092026
Returning to the Tower II.C: The Song Was Always There
Friday, January 9, 2026 at 12:31AM Ahh Susannah. From the moment she comes on the page, we know something transgressive is happening. Just consider for a moment that here in 2026 Stephen King is considered woke. Good gods. King was awake the moment he started writing. It used to be okay to praise a writer for being race conscious, and as far as I'm concerned it still is.
Thursday
Jan082026
Returning to the Tower II.B: The Prisoner
Thursday, January 8, 2026 at 11:18PM So one of my friends happens to be reading The Dark Tower as well currently. When we inevitably got to the topic of his writing in this series (and especially in this book) I wound up saying, "King is weird, because he absolutely is pulp, until he's not, and then he is again." and I stand by that statement. The Drawing of the Three is one of those absolutely inscrutable pulp objects that is somehow also an exquisite thing. Eddie's tale is quite possibly the pulpiest part of the entire saga.
