Blaine solves them all with nary an effort. Jake begin’s reading aloud from the book of riddles he acquired at the mysterious bookstore in New York operated by one Calvin Tower. Roland does his best with his the fair day riddles he remembers from the contests he observed as a child. After some small talk and arguing over rules, the riddling contest begins. The party is able to observe when Blaine demonstrates the ability to make himself completely transparent. Geographically, this locates them between California and Kansas, headed east.
They very closely resemble the blasted lands traveled by Jack Sawyer and his cousin in The Talisman.
These blasted and barren lands are inhabited by horrible monsters and a few unfortunate humans. It is in the not so comfy confines of Blaine that the fourth book picks up.īlaine takes the Ka-Tet out of the city and into the Waste Lands.
The only thing that motivates Blaine to take them out of Lud along the path of the beam to Topeka is the promise of an intellectual duel of riddling. He is devious, cunning, homicidal, and suicidal. That train, Blaine the Mono has a personality. Roland rescues Jake and the group boards a monorail to take them out of Lud. They follow it to the wrecked city of Lud where Jake is kidnapped by a henchman of the crazy Tick Tock Man who rules part of the city. They find the path of the beam – one of the beams upon which the Dark Tower and all of existence rests. The third book, The Wastelands, sees the Ka-Tet off on its quest for the Dark Tower. Finally, there is the raccoon-like creature known in Roland’s world as a billy bumbler named Oy who plays a hero’s role in rescuing Jake in the third book. Jake Chambers, who Roland finds in The Gunsliger and allows to die, re-emerges as part of Roland’s Ka-Tet. Eddie Dean, a heroin junky from 1987 New York, Oddetta/Detta Walker, a schizophrenic civil rights activist from 1962 New York whose personalities eventually mesh into Susannah Dean, bound to Eddie by love if not formal marriage. Book one, The Gunslinger, introduces us to Roland Deschain, the last Gunslinger, and his quest his quest to find the Dark Tower.īook two, The Drawing of the Three, brings in four new characters who will comprise Roland’s Ka-Tet (individuals bound by purpose and destiny). Wizard and Glass is the fourth of seven books that comprise the Dark Tower series.
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