Yeah I think that’s a change from the original to revised text. That scene gets softened some If I recall the comparisons Correctly

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More SPOILERY thoughts: Jake’s introduction (and disposal) is quite effective. It makes Roland a really unusual protagonist. There‘s enough backstory to sketch in a whole history of Gilead without belaboring it. Marten is a wily and strange antagonist and the imagery is vivid.

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/….whatever else, I loved this book. The atmosphere was second to none and I never knew where it was going to go. It’s also the shortest of the series by a considerable margin. The economy serves it well as it heightens the uncanny aspects of Midworld wonderfully. Wonderful stuff. 🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

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/…and, ultimately the most psychedelic of the series. I loved it. Despite it being essentially 5 short stories it felt like a cohesive novel to me, although I admit I listened to the expanded and revised version, so I don’t know what all was changed. I’ll seek out the original text, because…/

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ok first up of course is ‘The Gunslinger‘ (1982). I’ll skip the bio on this one but if you’re so inclined, read the wiki page- he started writing it 1970 and maybe that’s why it feels so differ ent than what follows. It’s simultaneously lean & oblique, dark to the point of murkiness…./

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