Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah Discussion

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Started this book this morning. Okay, it doesn't make all that much sense without reading the previous books, especially seems it seems to be set immediately after book V, but all in all I get the gist of it.

Which leads me to one thing I've gotta say: Okay, when I read the part about the 6 beams, and that these beams come out of the dark tower, and lead to the portals, I thought this is pretty cool. Then they started naming them after pigs and bears and rats and stuff and I'm like what the hell!?

I do like how they've got Father Callahan there with a copy of 'Salem's Lot, but what's the deal with the author's name being Calvin Tower...? why doesn't he just use his own name? It'd be more kooky.

I don't think that Calvin Tower is the author, only that Calvin Tower owned the book, which was a rare one, and worth a lot of money.

Calvin owns the vacant lot, where the rose grows, the rose that contains the universe/universes and he also owns Tower Books, can't remember the name of the store.

Stephen King wrote Salems Lot.

I think Eddie Dean took the bookcase and books from Towers shop through the cave portal door in Dark Tower 5, because Tower was a cheap ass and wanted his books protected.

oh, that's right, it said "book's owner" - I figured the Father owned it, so thought he must've meant the author.

See, totally need to read at least the fifth book to get it.

I don't like Eddie Dean. He keeps whining about his wife. Wah wah wah, she may be dead, wah wah wah, she has a demon baby inside her, wah wah wah, when are we leaving? Grow a pair, man!

Eddie is cool enough, but he is the typical Stephen King hero, who is a failure drug addict in your face type, that finds inner strength and saves everybody.

I got attached to him over the series. He really is just a carbon copy of Larry Underwood from The Stand.



Book 6 was my least favorite of the series, followed by book two.

3 and 7 were the best. 4 was pretty good, though one long flashback.

I liked 5 real good.

6 is so far okay, I guess. They way they talk is lame. And why is the father from 'Salem's Lot talking like that? He didn't talk like that before... what the ...?

He also wasn't gay in Salems Lot. But in Dark Tower 6, he is a homo.

Guy kicks some serious vampire butt in book 7 though.

I guess he talks that Calla speak, because is Book 5 it goes into a lot of back story about how he got killed by a type one vampire, and wound up in the Calla.

Similar to the way Jake was killed, and wound up in the desert with Roland. So, the Father has been living among the people there and picked up on the Thankee Sai , and all that other rot.

As a matter of fact, Book 5 was a lot better than book 6. I'm a little concerned you are reading it first, as it might throw you off the whole series...

I find Susana the weakest character, didn't care for her much, and book 6 is mostly about her messing around.

I went back to the John Saul book I was reading. I'll pick this up again later.

Finished the Saul book, so I may start reading this again tomorrow.

I'm up to the part that Susannah was turning all the dials in her body to calm herself down. Read something similar in a book before, but it's interesting enough.