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Description
This is the fourth book of the bestselling Dark Tower series, a work of epic scope and vision that has creeped into the worlds of The Stand , Insomnia , The Talisman , Black House , Hearts in Atlantis , Salem's Lot , and other familiar King haunts.
Summary
The novel begins where The Waste Lands ended. After Jake, Eddie, Susannah and Roland fruitlessly ride Blaine the Mono for several hours, Eddie defeats the mad computer with one of his signature talents, telling children's jokes and riddles. Blaine is unable to handle Eddie's "illogical"... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
First Sentence
The town of Candleton was a poisoned and irradiated ruin, but not dead; after all the centuries it still twitched with tenebrous life-trundling beetles the size of turtles, birds that looked like small, misshapen dragonlets, a few stumbling robots that passed in and out of the rotten buildings like stainless steel zombies, their joints squalling, their nuclear eyes flickering.
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Series
This is book 4 in the The Dark Tower series.
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