In The Wind Through the Keyhole, Stephen King returns to the Dark Tower series and tells us about a time when Roland and his ka-tet were traveling after the events of Wizard and Glass and they take shelter to sit out a storm. During this time Roland tells everyone a story that follows up on his super long story in Wizard and Glass. During that story young Roland needs to kill some time again and tells someone else another story that's basically a Mid-World fairy tale. And it is that story within a story within a story that actually makes up the bulk of the book. I'll say that I did like this one a lot more than the previous book. Maybe it is because the various stories move along quickly and don't drag along like the last book. Plus in true Dark Tower fashion pretty much no progress is made towards the Dark Tower. B.
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King
In The Wind Through the Keyhole, Stephen King returns to the Dark Tower series and tells us about a time when Roland and his ka-tet were traveling after the events of Wizard and Glass and they take shelter to sit out a storm. During this time Roland tells everyone a story that follows up on his super long story in Wizard and Glass. During that story young Roland needs to kill some time again and tells someone else another story that's basically a Mid-World fairy tale. And it is that story within a story within a story that actually makes up the bulk of the book. I'll say that I did like this one a lot more than the previous book. Maybe it is because the various stories move along quickly and don't drag along like the last book. Plus in true Dark Tower fashion pretty much no progress is made towards the Dark Tower. B.
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Mystery Book # 37 Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman
I'm finding that a number of the books on the top 100 mystery books list are quite inconsequential and follow the whole "police procedural" thing pretty closely. At least this one was short. Dance Hall of the Dead in the second in a series of books about a Navajo policeman that solves crimes on his reservation. The setting was different and I enjoyed that but the rest was pretty routine. Before the end I figured out who the killer was because in these procedurals it is never the most obvious person and always someone that was questioned early on in the process. Also, the cop doesn't succeed in his one goal of finding another character before he gets murdered... which is fine in that I don't mind a downer of an ending, but the cop just shrugs it off. Basically he accomplishes absolutely nothing by the end. Let's say this gets a C+, and that's being generous.Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Book # 33 - Moby Dick by Herman Melville
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