A person doesn't start out reading a book, thinking I will not be done with this story for about.......10 years. But sequels and prequels can be so consuming, but in a good way. Although, I am a Stephen King fan, I did not "get into" The Gunslinger series until my husband started reading them. Needless to say, I have had to go back and find books I had not read. I have enjoyed this on going story, as if I were a young kid and my parents were reading me a chapter a night and could not wait until we read again tonight.
Anything you want- you can find it here. I am a voracious reader and book collector. As with most Stephen King books, I bought Wizard And Glass in a first edition when it was first released. However- there was a problem- one set of 28 pages was repeated, and one set of 28 pages was missing. I didn't want to give it up because, in some small way, it is a collector's item. But it has bothered me for years that I never knew what happened in those missing 28 pages. But thanks to Ebay, now I know.
When I first picked up this book I was not happy about the detour from Roland’s travels to listen to a love story from his past for almost the entire book. The story gave not only depth to the character of Roland but brought some pieces of the story along that would have been hard to add in later in the story. While it is a love story it is a hard one that ends how you expect a love story to end for a gunslinger and shows us how some of the sprit of the gunslinger is crafted