Wizard and Glass - Stephen King

...particular book comes from – Wizard and Glass. Mostly from Rhea of the Coos, the old hag of a witch who thrives on nastiness and evil. She is entrusted with a glass ball (wizard glass), referred to by Roland's father as the pink grapefruit. This is an enchanted ball, one of thirteen. These are from the old days, before the world moved on and there are only a few believed to still be in existence. The ball also thrives on evil in essence and ...
...be mischievous and generally only shows things that would be cruel, painful or upsetting to the beholder. The ball drains your strength until you are emaciated and almost skeletal. Eating and sleeping become annoyances, and Rhea has fallen under the ‘glam’s’ spell. Rhea acquires this at the very start of this story and uses it to her own devious devices throughout. This book is full of love, pain, sorrow, loss, death, courage and ...

joannavos 13.07.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Wizard and Glass - Stephen King

This was the first Dark Tower book I read - purely by chance as it was on special offer and I simply couldn't put it down. Prior to this I had read a few Stephen King Books, like IT, Misery, Carrie and other similar ones so this completely blew me away as it was so different. Essentially this is a love story but it is so much more. For Dark Tower aficionados it fills us in about a lot of Roland's past which was sketchy until now. We get to see ...
...and meet some of his young friends - his first ka-tet. Although parts of the story don't quiter match up with past references, which can be slightly annoying, I think that this is by far the best Dark Tower (and Stephen King) book and I would strongly recommend it to anyone. ...

danielk7 18.09.2005 · Read full review
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Wizard and Glass, the forth book in the Dark Tower Series, was as intense as Stephen King can get. From the start of the book, until the end, I could not put it down. I read it in 3 days. The book did not have the usual flavor of twisted fantasy horror of many of King's novels, but mirrored more of the horrors of real life. Most of King's endings are weak, but Wizard and Glass will keep you satisfied from start to finish. I absolutely recommend this ...

lovelylisa 09.10.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Wizard and Glass - Stephen King