I\’ll even settle for Cooking With Roland: A Guide to Gunslinger Burritos. So here\’s hoping everyone\’s favorite Wordslinger isn\’t done with his Dark Tower series yet. Well it often leaves me wanting seconds, anyway. In the words of a certain Dickensian character,\”I want some more!\” But I suppose that\’s what a memorable book does. They don\’t make those in braille– oh Discordia! That\’s my only complaint about this book. I can\’t go out and pick up his Marvel Comics Dark Tower prequel series and would absolutely love to experience those on audio in some format or another. What happened to Rhea, for instance? How did Roland track the old witch down and deal with her one final time? I\’ve been wanting to know since Wizard and Glass. I enjoyed it very much, but I wish King would spin more tales of Roland\’s younger years. I\’ve seen it very well and I say thank ya. So because of him, I\’ve seen Midworld in an entirely new light. King\’s one heck of a sighted guide when it comes to reading his own works. He transports me into his stories in a way that no other narrator has been able to do sans the late great and sorely missed Frank Muller. He hasn\’t narrated an entire book since On Writing, so it was great to listen to him behind the mic again. I\’ve always felt as if King was most passionate about and most proud of his Tower novels. It usually means that they\’re passionate about a particular story they\’ve written.
It\’s an honor when an author decides to devote his or her time to reading something. I think he does a great job when he decides to narrate his own books. I\’m sure there are folks who will tell you that King can\’t narrate for… well, you know. I\’ve missed traveling along the path of the beam with his ka tet so it was wonderful to revisit this story again.
As for protagonists, Roland has to be my all time favorite.
Well, why not? No fictional setting has captivated me more than Midworld. Guess I\’m truly a tower junky, as Eddy Dean would undoubtedly say. I honestly felt like it still wasn\’t enough. I loved all seven of the books released before this one. Learning that another Dark Tower novel was going to be released in 2012 thrilled me to no end.
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