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The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
- Narrated by: Frank Muller
- Length: 27 hrs and 35 mins
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Summary
Stephen King's epic fantasy series, The Dark Tower, is being made into a major movie starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey. Due in cinemas February 17, 2017 USA.
In the fourth powerful novel in Stephen King's best-selling fantasy quest, The Dark Tower beckons Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and the four companions he has gathered along the road.
And, having narrowly escaped one world, they set out on a terrifying journey across the scarred urban wasteland to brave a new world where hidden dangers lie at every junction: a malevolent computer-run monorail hurtling towards self-destruction, Roland's relentlessly cunning old enemy, and the temptation of the wizard's diabolical glass ball, a powerful force in Roland's first love affair. A tale of long-ago love and adventure involving a beautiful and quixotic woman named Susan Delgado.
And the Tower is closer....
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- Michelle
- 27-06-13
Can't praise this series enough
If I could give this series of books 10 stars I would. Fantastic from start to finish. This is just anouther great chapter in Rolands journey.
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- sarahmoose2000
- 08-08-12
Follow the yellow brick road....
The ka-tet learn the story of Roland's youth; how he fell in love and just who the wizard and what the glass of the title are.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-12-15
Stephen kings epic tale
What did you like most about The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass?
Stephen King has created an interesting group of charactors and some wonderful lands. This book is number four but is a prequel to the books before. The story is based around a young Roland and sets up the story brilliantly. Action packed could even read it as a stand alone book. Really enjoy the dark tower books.
What other book might you compare The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass to, and why?
Lord of the rings, nightwatch.
What about Frank Muller’s performance did you like?
Perfect.voice for all the characters
Any additional comments?
Get involved Stephen King best work.
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- william
- 19-07-12
the dark tower
what i loved about thr dark tower is the story teller.he takes you into into to the story.you become part of the story,a forth travler.
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- Steve
- 19-02-15
So Roland DOES have a heart
What did you like most about The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass?
Roland's blossoming relationship with Susan Delgado. Also, the relationship with Roland's original Ka-Tet of Owain and Cuthbert. You understand a lot of Roland's motivations and why he is the way he is from the events in this story.
What did you like best about this story?
Roland showing how smart and astute he is despite his distraction with Susan Delgado. Also that he can demonstrate the difference between a gunslinger and those who failed the test and are outcast.
Which character – as performed by Frank Muller – was your favourite?
I enjoyed Cuthbert Allgood's character and Frank's performance of it. It is slightly distracting hearing the name pronounced differently to how I expect to hear it though. Not that it is Frank's fault because King confirmed that it should be pronounced "Key-ooth-bert" instead of "Cuth-bert" as I'd expect. On a related note, King pronounces Deschain as "Des-chain" whereas Frank (and I) would pronounce it more French as in "Desh-ain". I only mention it as King reads "The Wind Through the Keyhole" himself.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Naturally, the death of Susan Delgado (No spoiler there because it's confirmed in earlier books) and the fear for Sheemie's life.
Any additional comments?
A brilliant story that gives us the background of Roland's life before his quest for the Dark Tower. I think that "The Drawing of the Three" is a better story but many would disagree. Definitely worth reading as a King fan even if you dislike the Dark Tower series.
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- airedale
- 03-07-23
What a read.
I read the dark tower series as they came out many years ago. I decided to do it all again via audible. It’s like being there for the first time again. They are fabulous stories and well worth the time.
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- Adrian
- 15-05-23
My Favourite Dark Tower book yet
This story was fantastic and got me so much more invested in the overall story. The story was great, the narration was great, and I'm so excited for the next book
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- Miss V E Blagg
- 04-04-18
Drawn Out but ultimatley Worth it.
Read with Excellence yet again by Frank Muller. I was excited to get some back story and learn a little of The years before the quest for the tower, However upon listening to the story I found myself getting bored...
Susan's Charcter is...well...annoying. The book seems to drone on with the same 'we can, we can't, we must, we mustn't' I found myself willing Susan's inevitable fate to come sooner and sooner and when it finally does...I didn't care. In fact I was Glad.
Ria and Cuthbert are by far the saving grace of this book as well as the tanatalising eferences to The Stand.
Ria, performed skin crawlingly good by Frank Muller and written with perfect horror by King, makes the story worthwhile, after a long trudge through Magis and the planning/counting we finally get some insight into Rolands Character and why the tower means so much to him. Just wish it would have come sooner.
Bottom line: Great to get some backstory and insight into Roland, introduction of a fantastic new enemy, But get to it already!
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- zomodo
- 28-10-16
Struggled but will perserve
Maybe this series isn't for me. I took it on with trepidation. I can't fault the book or the writing, I just found it really long and this took me 3 months to finish. I just couldn't get into it at times and had to rewind repeatedly.
HOWEVER I will continue with the series because I have invested so much time in it and I want to see what happens to the kartet. I just need a little break, so I'm going to read a couple of quick light hearted 'chick lits' before the next tomb.
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- John Ottaway
- 06-07-15
Freud Would Have a Field Day
I haven't read too much Stephen King and what I have read, was several years ago, so I don't recall cringing quite this much with The Shining.
His obsession with describing every inch of female anatomy, gets quite uncomfortable and his sex scenes just made me skip forward. Apparently he's married, but this makes me feel sad for his wife....
He can paint a very descriptive picture of people, places, landscapes, so why he feels the need to follow every one of them with a "like a..." and further description, escapes me. Especially when the references aren't exactly common place. "Black smoke billowed into the sky... like a funeral pyre". I don't know if many Vikings read his work, but that adds nothing. Removing them would greatly reduce the length of the book, help making it tighter and less drawn out.
As for the constant sexual references to so many subjects, Freud could make a career out of him. Referring to the glow of a glass ball as "labial pink", was a particular high point.
My journey with Roland will end here. I have managed four books and heard so much about where King takes the story, that I don't think I could stick it. So for me.... They reach the Dark Tower and live happily ever after
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