The Wind Through the Keyhole av Stephen King - skuffende

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Not long after the death of my mother, which as you know came by my own hand, my father - Steven, son of Henry the Tall - summoned me to his study in the north wing of the palace. It was a small, cold room. I remember the wind whining around the slit windows. I remember the high, frowning shelves of books - worth a fortune, they were, but never read. Not by him, anyway. And I remember the black collar of mourning he wore. It was the same as my own. Every man in Gilead wore the same collar, or a band around his shirtsleeve. The women wore black nets on their hair. This would go on until Gabrielle Deschain was six months in her tomb.

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Som regel tror man at en forfatter er ferdig med en serie, men ikke alltid ...

The Dark Tower 7 (The Dark Tower) av Stephen King - sterk serie med sterk avslutning

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Roland looked haggard and unwell, but he was squatting on his hunkers, and Jake decided that if he was limber enough to do that, he was probbly okay. He squatted beside the gunslinger, hands dangling loosely between his thighs. Roland glanced at him, said nothing, then looked back toward the prison the staff called Agul Siento and the inmates called the Devar-Toi. It was a brightening blur beyond and below them. The sun - electric, atomic, whatever - wasn't shining yet.

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Vemodig og rørende.

The Dark Tower 6 (Song of Susannah) av Stephen King - svakeste ledd i serien?

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"Tell us the story with me in it," Roland invited.
    King leaned against the kitchen counter and the top of his head caught a shaft of sun. He took a sip of his beer and considered Roland's question. Eddie saw it then for the first time, very dim - a contrast to the sun, perhaps. A dusty black shadow, something swaddled around the man. Dim. Barely there. But there. Like the darkness you saw hiding behind things when you traveled todash. Was that it? Eddie didn't think so.
    Barely there.
    But there.
    'You know,' King said. 'I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them down.'

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The Dark Tower serien har vært en sterk og overbevisende serie frem til Song of Susannah. Jeg liker serien fremdeles veldig godt, men ble ikke helt fan av denne boka ...

The Dark Tower 5 (Wolves of the Calla) av Stephen King - kanskje ikke en bok for småbarnsforeldre

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    'It's pretty much in the middle of the lot. Maybe thirty yards, but probably less.'
    'The second we hear the chimes,' Roland said, 'we run for the fence and Susannah. All three of us. Agreed?'
    'Agreed,' Eddie said.
    'All three of us and Oy,' Jake said.
    'No, Oy stays with Susannah.'

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Herlig dystert og sterk oppfølger som virkelig gjør inntrykk.

The Dark Tower 4 (Wizard and Glass) av Stephen King - en seig murstein å komme seg gjennom, men vel verdt det

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   'What purpose?' Jake asked. He had clearly been captivated by the story; his eyes shone nearly as bright as Oy's. ' And which friends?'
    'These things you must now hear,' Roland said, 'and how you judge me will come in time.'
    He fetched a sigh - the deep sigh of a man who contemplates some arduous piece of work - and then tossed fresh wood on the fire. As the flames flared up, driving the shadows back a little way, he began to talk.

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Still going strong.

The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, bok 3) av Stephen King - den fantastiske og spesielle reisen fortsetter

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    Roland stood up. His knees popped like gunshots. 'We'll have to move camp,' he said. ' The ground here is spoiled. The other clearing, the one where we go to shoot, will -'
    He took two trembling steps and then collapsed to his knees, palms pressed to the sides of his sagging head.

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Den underligste reisen gjennom bøker jeg har vært med på, men helt klart verdt det, og det er ennå ikke over.

The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, #2) av Stephen King - unik oppfølger PS: Ingen spoilere

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    Without thought, with the simple resolve that had made him the last of them all, the last to continue marching on and on long after Cuthbert and the others had died or given up, committed suicide or treachery or simply recanted the whole idea of the Tower; with the single - minded and incurious resolve that had driven him across the desert and all the years before the desert in the wake of the man in black, the gunslinger stepped through the doorway.

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Sjeldent å komme over sterke oppfølgere som denne.

The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) av Stephen King - det er bare å glede seg til fortsettelsen!

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   The gunslinger faded back out the door and headed for town. The smell of the desert was clear in the air. Almost time to move on.
   Almost.

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Helt annerledes enn alt annet King har skrevet.