"The San Francisco Chronicle"One gets the feeling that this colossal story means a lot to King, that he's telling it because he has to....he's giving "The Dark Tower" everything he's got.
Fans of King's long-running "Dark Tower" series have been waiting over five years for the book to succeed 1997's Wizard and Glass. In Wolves, our band of gunslingers (Roland Deschain; Eddie Dean and his wife, Susannah; Jake Chambers; and the Billy Bumbler, Oy) continue their journey toward the Dark Tower along the Path of the Beam but pause to assist the small farming community of Calla Bryn Sturgis, which falls prey once every generation to the fearsome "wolves," stealing away one child from each pair of twins. While preparing for this fight, Roland's posse finds a door to 1977 Manhattan, where a vacant lot on the corner of Second Avenue fosters a very special red rose. As listeners, we can appreciate the skillful reading by George Guidall, while at the same time mourning the loss of Frank Muller as narrator-Muller's enlivening and energetic readings of the previous volumes of the series continue to resonate. Highly recommended and essential for all collections holding the earlier "Dark Tower" books.-Kristen L. Smith, Loras Coll. Lib., Dubuque, IA Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
"The San Francisco Chronicle"
One gets the feeling that this colossal story means a lot to King, that he's telling it because he has to....he's giving "The Dark Tower" everything he's got.
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