The Wind Through the Keyhole: The Dark Tower IV-1/2
Apr 2012 · The Dark Tower Book 1 · Simon and Schuster
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In his New York Times bestselling The Wind Through the Keyhole, Stephen King returns to the spectacular territory of the Dark Tower fantasy saga to tell a story about gunslinger Roland Deschain in his early days.
The Wind Through the Keyhole is a sparkling contribution to the series that can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V. This Russian doll of a novel, a story within a story within a story, visits Roland and his ka-tet as a ferocious, frigid storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam. Roland tells a tale from his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt-ridden year following his mother’s death. Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape-shifter, Roland takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast’s most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Book of Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, “The Wind through the Keyhole.” “A person’s never too old for stories,” he says to Bill. “Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them.”
And stories like The Wind Through the Keyhole live for us with Stephen King’s fantastical magic that “creates the kind of fully imagined fictional landscapes a reader can inhabit for days at a stretch” (The Washington Post).
The Wind Through the Keyhole is a sparkling contribution to the series that can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V. This Russian doll of a novel, a story within a story within a story, visits Roland and his ka-tet as a ferocious, frigid storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam. Roland tells a tale from his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt-ridden year following his mother’s death. Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape-shifter, Roland takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast’s most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Book of Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, “The Wind through the Keyhole.” “A person’s never too old for stories,” he says to Bill. “Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them.”
And stories like The Wind Through the Keyhole live for us with Stephen King’s fantastical magic that “creates the kind of fully imagined fictional landscapes a reader can inhabit for days at a stretch” (The Washington Post).
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John Haringsma
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October 15, 2013
A story within a story feels kind of like jiberish to me... The beginning had me set on a clear adventure with a dark villian(skin man). However to my disappointment I was thrown off course to a place I found myself not wanting to go. I came to read about Roland and once I found that this story within a story was the majority of the book, it left me with a bad taste in my mouth. The story should have been strictly about the skin man and would have been a great mystery book to partake in...
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Rippleleena Martin
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May 8, 2017
'The Dark Tower I' (of an eight book series) was 1st published in June 1986. The last book, 'The Dark Tower VII', was published in September 2004. Don't be misled into thinking this is a continued series published by Stephen King, for this is an 8th book that is a followup to Book 4 of 'The Dark Tower" series. If you want to know when his or any other book being sold on the Play Store was published, I advise you to "Google" the title and author for up-to-date facts because the Play Store is giving misleading information when it states the publication date on a book or series, which is actually it's last publication date, not its first. Being I'm 67 y.o., I recognize a multitude of the titles being sold as being from when I was in my teens to 40's. This is relevant when it comes to the self-help books because the information contained within those pages are pertinent to the problems of those eras that too often no longer exist and are out of date. So check the publication dates for the more recent books, especially those that reference mental/health care advice. Also, history, since new information comes out quite often that challenges and/or changes historical dates and facts. For me, personally, I like all my books to be recent. But that's just me.
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September 28, 2021
This is mostly Roland telling his ka-tet about an incident from his gunslinger youth, including a long story his mother used to read to him as a child; the title story. Doesn't advance the DT story or add much to it. Somewhat entertaining but not really worth it.
About the author
Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes the short story collection You Like It Darker, Holly (a New York Times Notable Book of 2023), Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
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