Reading Wolves of the Calla if you’ve never read ‘Salem’s Lot must be really weird. Father Callahan is telling the characters about his past and for several chapters it’s just a normal story about an alcoholic priest losing his faith. Then all of a sudden he’s talking about fighting a vampire and Roland is just like *solemn nod*.
Finally got through the 700 page flashback in Wizard and Glass.
Dark Tower update: I have been super creeped out by Charlie the Choo-Choo/Blaine the Mono for hundreds of pages now, and he/it has not even appeared yet. I have never anticipated a fucking train ride which such nervousness in my entire life.
The part in The Waste Lands where Jake reads Charlie the Choo-Choo for the first time is wonderfully unsettling in that very unique King-y way.
Key and Rose
Hey, Dark Tower fans: When I finish Wizard and Glass, should I read The Wind Through the Keyhole next? Or should I just read them in publication order and go on to Wolves of the Calla?
I was just talking to Cara about how Aaron Paul would be the perfect Eddie Dean in a Dark Tower adaptation, and apparently Paul has gone on the record to say he wants to do it.
I don’t really think a Dark Tower adaptation is a good idea, but if it does happen, Aaron Paul better be in it.
I read the chapter in The Drawing of the Three where the Gunslinger tries Pepsi and hot dogs for the first time and it was the first thing to make me feel like I had an appetite all this week.
The Gunslinger and the Lobstrosity
Great way to start a book: protagonist wakes up on beach being attacked by a gross sea creature that bites off two of his fingers.
