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Loading... Song of Susannah (The Dark Tower, Book 6) (original 2004; edition 2006)by Stephen King, Darrel Anderson (Illustrator)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Another awesome chapter in the Dark Tower series. ( ) this one gallops right behind the one before and hardly slows down. i didn't enjoy it quite as much, but oh how i loved the because that part was a good chunk of the end, i find myself feeling like i loved this book, giddy with what he did there. but i think if i look at the whole, that in spite of that kind of brilliant turn he took, that i still like the wolves of the calla better. i think that i'm starting to see how really grand his vision was. i'm not sure how he managed the continuity here, considering he started the first book like 40 years or something before the last one. or maybe how he managed to mold the later books, given what constraints he purposefully or accidentally wrote earlier. either way, that's pretty impressive. i like what he's saying about how machines have replaced magic, how we've come to rely on technology rather than imagination, and how that leaves us in a vulnerable position. that once the people who know how to use the machines/technology fade away, or if they are no more, or if something happens to them, then the society will eventually crumble. no one at the helm, able to use the functionality, with no belief in magic or creativity, and it all falls apart. "The gunslinger said, 'I used to think the most terrible thing would be to reach the Dark Tower and find the top room empty. The God of all universes either dead or nonexistent in the first place. But now...suppose there issomeone there, Eddie? Someone in charge who turns out to be...' He couldn't finish. Eddie could. 'Someone who turns out to be just another bumhug? Is that it? God not dead but feeble-minded and malicious?'" "'I don't think he needs to be immortal. I think all he needs to do is write the right story. Because some stories do live forever.'" Another great edition to the dark tower series. The connection of the world's we have come to know in the series to the 'real world's is amazing. And making Stephen King himself such a pivotal character is beyond words. Thinking about the connections and the 'truth' of our world and possibility of other worlds connected by the Tower is truly mind bending
Reading "Song of Susannah," the penultimate novel in Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series, is rather like taking on the third leg of a triathlon. It's no coincidence that Stephen King began the final sprint of his marathon "Dark Tower" epic shortly after the events of Sept. 11, 2001. What's now clear -- and certainly wasn't when some of us read "The Gunslinger," the first story in the sequence, more than 25 years ago -- is that this saga is more than just an unlikely mishmash of spaghetti Western, Arthurian high fantasy and post-apocalyptic sci-fi. Reviewing the fifth volume of Stephen King's Dark Tower sequence, Wolves of the Calla, for this paper I suggested that this probably wasn't the best place for new readers to begin. Volume Six, Song of Susannah, however, almost works as a stand-alone novel, and is highly recommended for readers who enjoy the more metafictional side of King's oeuvre, and especially those who have been waiting for something along the lines of his greatest novel to date, Hearts in Atlantis. Is contained inThe Dark Tower 8-Book Boxed Set by Stephen King (indirect) Has as a concordanceHas as a student's study guideAwardsDistinctions
Stephen King The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah with 10 full-color illustrations by Darrel Anderson The next-to-last novel in Stephen King's seven-volume magnum opus, Song of Susannah is at once a book of revelation, a fascinating key to the unfolding mystery of the Dark Tower, and a fast-paced story of double-barreled suspense. To give birth to her "chap," demon-mother Mia has usurped the body of Susannah Dean and used the power of Black Thirteen to transport to New York City in the summer of 1999. The city is strange to Susannah ... and terrifying to the "daughter of none," who shares her body and mind. Saving the Tower depends not only on rescuing Susannah but also on securing the vacant lot Calvin Tower owns before he loses it to the Sombra Corporation. Enlisting the aid of Manni senders, the remaining katet climbs to the Doorway Cave ... and discovers that magic has its own mind. It falls to the boy, the billy-bumbler, and the fallen priest to find Susannah-Mia, who, in a struggle to cope -- with each other and with an alien environment -- "go todash" to Castle Discordia on the border of End-World. In that forsaken place, Mia reveals her origins, her purpose, and her fierce desire to mother whatever creature the two of them have carried to term. Eddie and Roland, meanwhile, tumble into western Maine in the summer of 1977, a world that should be idyllic but isn't. For one thing, it is real, and the bullets are flying. For another, it is inhabited by the author of a novel called 'Salem's Lot, a writer who turns out to be as shocked by them as they are by him. These are the simple vectors of a story rich in complexity and conflict. Its dual climaxes, one at the entrance to a deadly dining establishment and the other appended to the pages of a writer's journal, will leave readers gasping for the saga's final volume (which, Dear Reader, follows soon, say thank ya). No library descriptions found.
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