“Cast your nets, wanderers! Try me with your questions, and let the contest begin.”
—Blaine the Mono, to Roland and the Ka-Tet, at the end of The Waste Lands
Welcome to A Read of the Dark Tower series. Join me each week as I, Constant Reader, tackle the magnum opus of Stephen King’s career for the first time. If you want to discuss in general terms or talk about these first sections, join me by commenting here.
When we last left the flashback ka-tet of Roland, Cuthbert, and Alain, they appeared to be in Mejis, far from Gilead, and traveling under assumed names. Roland, aka Will Dearborn, had met Susan Delgado on the road late at night as she returned to the village after being proven “onest” by the witch Rhea, and the two had fallen into immediate hormonal infatuation.
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