I didnt find this book as amazing as all the others. Quite frankly, since most of the characters in this book are already dead anyhow (this book is one major flashback) I could really care less about them. Why get attatched to Cuthbert? Or Alain? Or Sheemie? Or Roland's old girl?

This WAS one of the more popular books at the time, I think Stephen king KNEW that most people didnt want to read about Roland's past. So what did he do? He cleverly DIDNT finish the ride on Blaine the train from book three, and made it run over into this book.

While this royally pissed a bunch of his readers off, they obviously bought the book JUST so they knew what happened with Blaine.

Very evil, yet very clever Stephen KIng. Bravo.