New Dark Tower - Song of Susannah

lambchops · #1 06-16-2004, 09:45 AM

Just in case ya'll have been living under a rock. There is a new Stephen King Dark Tower book out called Song of Susannah. I've already begun reading it (am a few hundred pages in) and REALLY enjoy it. Some major revelations thus far...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...547844-8837720

poseidon · #2 06-16-2004, 10:12 AM

Good... glad to hear that somebody likes it. Most of the published reviews that I've read (not on Epinions) is that it is truly awful, and that King pulls a Clive Cussler (one of my favorite authors) -- he introduces himself as a character.

Keep us informed, please. I'll be waiting, of course, for it to come out in paperback before I buy it. Anyone else with any info on it, please feel free to publish.

**lynnzop**[$] · #3 06-16-2004, 03:12 PM

Well, I was afraid of that when there was a copy of 'salem's Lot in the last DT book. I was very disappointed when I read it.

I'll read SoS, certainly. Can't let the palaver get away from me. But I don't want King to turn this (fantastic thus far) series into a cheap parlor trick.

**lynnzop**[$] · #4 08-16-2004, 03:16 PM

I'm nearly done.

For all my apprehension of King bringing himself into the book and using 'salem's Lot as a stepping stone, I must say I'm pleased with how he's done it. It's right up there with the others of the series...and I love the way.........wait a sec, I'm not going to give away ANYTHING.

Definitely bears re-reading once I'm done, however. Gemini's "Land of Confusion" keeps running through my brain when I think of the book.

eris esoteric · #5 09-04-2004, 07:17 PM

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lynnzop said

Well, I was afraid of that when there was a copy of 'salem's Lot in the last DT book. I was very disappointed when I read it.

I'll read SoS, certainly. Can't let the palaver get away from me. But I don't want King to turn this (fantastic thus far) series into a cheap parlor trick.

He's pulling a Heinlein, that's all. Combining all possible universes that he's written. It's something he's been heading for ever since the bizarro crossover of Delores Claiborn and Gerald's Game. Haven't read SoS yet, am planning to soon. I *do* like the Heinlein concept, and I'm interested in seeing what he does with it.

(editorial note: "Pulling a Heinlein" is a phrase used in my house to refer to a writer of great breadth coming up with a story line that manages, through manipulating space-time realities, to combine all the stories written by the author, regardless of what reality that the stories take place in. Robert Heinlein did it at the end of his career with the books "Time Enough for Love," "The Number of the Beast," "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls," and "To Sail Beyond the Sunset." It is commonly believed that Heinlein introduced himself as a character... the villian that was trying to keep all the worlds from coming together in harmony. Although it's entirely possible that the villian was an editor or something. That part gets a little spacey.)

**lynnzop**[$] · #6 09-05-2004, 03:03 AM

Eris, he pulls this one off. Most excellently. Make sure you read the journal at the end.

Lynn
who didn't like the ending, just cause it was a stupid cliff-hanger and had to find where she'd thrown the book so she could go back and read the journal

eris esoteric · #7 09-05-2004, 09:57 AM

Oh, I'm expecting a cliff hanger. At this point, he's pretty much said he's not bothering to self promote anymore, and isn't in it for the money (his PUBLISHERS, on the other hand, are a different story). I'm sure he would have published the last three books as a combined unit, but then who among us has a loyal sherpa guide willing to lift the damn thing if he did? But Mr. King is, and alway has been a ham. And cliff hangers are a ham's way of showing off.

(Personally, and this is probably crass, but I'm just glad he lived long enough to finish the damn thing. Not that I want to see him offed now that he's finished writing the series. But I was starting to worry that he would never complete it, or that it would turn into some god-awful Robert Jordan sort of thing. Speaking of which, can one of you let me know when Robert Jordan declares himself done with The Wheel of Time so I can start it?)

(And no, I'm not going to start reading Harry Potter until she's done with the first series, either).