When I first read this, prior to the advent of the internet and information being readily available, my mind was blown when I found out The Dark Tower was connected with The Stand.
After Eddie figures out how to defeat the intelligent imputed on-board the train, the group steps off into a world that is reminiscent of the world that appears in anther King book, The Stand. People I know who are new to the series plow right into Wizard and Glass after finishing The Wastelands because of the cliffhanger ending of book three. The beginning of The Wizard and Glassis a direct continuation of the events in Blaine the Mono at the end of The Wastelands. I knew the flashback was coming and was looking forward to the back story to get filled in a little bit. This time through however, was exactly the opposite. I loved the back story that King creates for Roland, it helped explain his character better and the similarities between young Rolands ka-tet and the older Roland’s new ka-tet are numerous and fun to look for, but the flashback story took some wind out of the sails for me the first time through.
But it felt as though the story, which moved quickly forward from one even to the next in the previous two books, slowed down after the first part of the book. It wasn’t that I didn’t like the book, I thought the story was fantastic. When I first read through the Dark Tower series this particular book took me longer to finish than any of the others.
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