Wizard and Glass is the fourth book in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. This book is subtitled "REGARD." The novel was nominated for a Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 1998.
The novel begins where The Waste Lands ended. After Jake, Eddie, Susannah and Roland fruitlessly ride Blaine the Mono for several hours, Eddie defeats the mad computer by telling dead baby jokes. Blaine is unable to handle Eddie's "illogical" riddles, and short-cir...
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Wizard and Glass is the fourth book in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. This book is subtitled "REGARD." The novel was nominated for a Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 1998.
The novel begins where The Waste Lands ended. After Jake, Eddie, Susannah and Roland fruitlessly ride Blaine the Mono for several hours, Eddie defeats the mad computer by telling dead baby jokes. Blaine is unable to handle Eddie's "illogical" riddles, and short-circuits.
The four gunslingers and Oy the billy-bumbler disembark at the Topeka railway station, which to their surprise is located in the Topeka, Kansas, of the 1980s. The city is deserted, as this version of the world has been depopulated by the influenza of King's novel The Stand. Links between these books also include the following reference to The Walkin' Dude from The Stand on page 95, "Someone had spray-painted over both signs marking the ramp's ascending curve. On the one reading St. Louis 215, someone had slashed watch out for the...
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