Title: King stacks the deck with "Wizard and Glass"
Product review: After a seemingly endless wait since "The Waste Lands", King has finally delivered the fourth chapter of the Dark Tower saga. In this one, he finally tells us about what happened to Roland prior to the "The Gunslinger." Was it worth the wait? Well, yes and no. The story is well-structured, imaginative, and genuinely moving, but like many of King's recent works, it is bloated. However, King does tell us the things that have made Roland the man he is, and gets us to root for his heroes, as always. Nobody does characterization like King. He is also getting more daring with the references to his other novels. This gamble could work one of two ways, it could either create a genuine fantasy universe, or it could go over the line into self-indulgence. Only time will tell what happens, but all in all King is delivering one of the great fantasy epics of our time.
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