- Mar 14, 2018
- 4 min
Book Review: The Dark Tower, by Stephen King
And so at last we come to The Dark Tower, the final book in Stephen King’s series of the same name (the long tale he’s said is his Lord...
- Nov 6, 2017
- 2 min
Book Review: Song of Susannah, by Stephen King
Song of Susannah is my favorite of Stephen King’s Dark Tower books so far. There are several reasons. For one thing, King picks up right...
- Jul 28, 2017
- 2 min
Book Review: Wolves of the Calla, by Stephen King
At this point, I have a good idea what I’m getting into when I pick up one of Stephen King’s Dark Tower novels. The story will wander. It...
- Nov 6, 2016
- 2 min
Book Review: Wizard and Glass, by Stephen King
Wizard and Glass, the fourth installment in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, might have the strangest structure of any novel I’ve read....
- Aug 25, 2016
- 2 min
Book Review: The Waste Lands, by Stephen King
The Dark Tower series, as Stephen King explained in his introduction to its first book, The Gunslinger, is essentially his Lord of the...
- Jun 20, 2016
- 2 min
Book Review: The Drawing of the Three, by Stephen King
Most authors wouldn’t start the second installment in a seven-book series by maiming the protagonist. But The Drawing of the Three was...
- Oct 22, 2015
- 2 min
Book Review: The Eyes of the Dragon, by Stephen King
The Eyes of the Dragon isn’t your usual Stephen King novel. For one thing, it’s squarely in the young adult genre (aside from an early...
- Aug 24, 2015
- 3 min
Book Review: The Stand, by Stephen King
In Stephen King’s foreword to the revised version of The Stand, his 1,200-page apocalyptic tale about the impact of an accidentally...
- Apr 29, 2015
- 2 min
Book Review: On Writing, by Stephen King
It’s easy to assume (and maybe even hope) that Stephen King isn’t a good writer—surely someone so prolific, popular, and obsessed with...
