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  Wizard and Glass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wizard and Glass is the fourth book in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King.
The glass then shows him a vision of his future, and also of Susan's death (she is burned as a harvest sacrifice for colluding with Roland).
The Wizard of Oz parallels continue inside, where the Wizard is revealed to be Marten Broadcloak, also known as Randall Flagg, who flees.
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 Wizard and Glass   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
'Wizard and Glass is the third book in The Dark Tower series by Stephen King.
The Wizards Rainbow was introduced in Wizard and Glass and this is how we currently understand it.
I don't know if King got bored of writing Wizard and Glass, or if he had a deadline he had to meet, but I felt that, after saving the Tick-Tock Man, R. Flagg would have had a much better use for him than just revolver fodder.
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 The Dark Tower - Waste Lands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In both its structure and its penchant for clever parallel characterizations, Wizard and Glass is a playful and richly evocative riff on Baum's The Wizard of Oz.
But for all its archetypal echoes and textual interplay, Wizard and Glass is above all an especially inspired continuation of Roland and his fellow pilgrims' progress (or lack thereof) toward the elusive Dark Tower.
Wizard and Glass sets a wonderful stage for what is sure to be a wildly unpredictable answer to this fundamental question.
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 Books : Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, Book 4)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
"Wizard and Glass" is a treat for fans and non-fans of King alike.
But the thing that bothered me with Dark Tower 4: Wizard and Glass, it took me 6 TIMES TO READ IT because he dragged on and one about Roland and his ka-tet: The story takes place in Roland's past, he was 14 at the time.
Wizard and Glass starts off with the older Roland, Eddie, Susannah, Jake, and Oy on Blaine heading for a suicide with them on.
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 The Very Best Books : Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, Book 4)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
As "Wizard and Glass" begins, Roland and his companions are hurtling over the wastelands, imprisoned by the mad computer Blaine the Mono, who means to destroy itself at the end of its run, taking Roland, Eddie, Jake, Susannah, and Oy with it.
Much of the story in "Wizard and Glass" is actually a story within a story, as Roland tells his companions the story of what happened to him in Mejis, one of the Outer Baronies of Mid-World, when he was fourteen.
Wizard and Glass show us Roland's transformation from boy to man and the weight of the Dark Tower on his soul.
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 Glass Wizard - Review of the As Seen on TV Product Glass Wizard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 The SF Site Featured Review: The Dark Tower: Wizard and Glass
Expertly crafted and gratifyingly epic, Wizard and Glass, the fourth book in the cycle, is a love story for those of us who don't read love stories anymore.
These are a few of the questions the considerable middle-section of Wizard and Glass explores, taking us back to just after a fourteen-year-old Roland bested his teacher, Cort (described in The Gunslinger), to become the youngest gunslinger on record.
If Wizard and Glass has a weak point, it may lie with its hurried ending, which in the space of a mere fifty or so pages propels Roland, Eddie, Susannah, and Oy toward the green palace blocking I-70, and into an obvious encounter with Frank L. Baum's infamous mythology.
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 Review of Stephen King's Wizard and Glass
Wizard and Glass looked to suffer from the same problem, bloat, that had stretched out the lacklustre story of The Waste Lands.
Wizard and Glass is probably best pigeonholed (if that's what critics are supposed to do) as dark fantasy.
The glass of the title is a piece of Maerlyn's Rainbow, but it only shows the worst aspects of people's lives and actions.
www.challengingdestiny.com /reviews/wizardglass.htm   (1037 words)

  
 DARK TOWER IV: WIZARD & GLASS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Now "The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass" is available in a limited hardcover edition and will be offered as a trade paperback by NAL in November.
Though twice as long as the average popular novel and written with a good deal of style and feeling, this volume isn't likely to satisfy the appetites of readers eager to learn the resolution of King's grand literary experiment, the first volume of which was published more than fifteen years ago.
"Wizard and Glass" begins with Roland of Gilead and his four traveling companions -- ex-junkie Eddie Dean, schoolboy Jake Chambers, wheelchair-bound Odetta Susannah Holmes and four-legged, furry "billybumbler" Oy-- still in the clutches of Blaine, a high-speed monorail with an artificial intelligence system driven mad by time and circumstance.
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 Stephen King The Dark Tower IV - Wizard and Glass
Wizard and Glass, the fourth episode in King's white-hot Dark Tower series, is a sci-fi/fantasy novel that contains a post-apocalyptic Western love story twice as long.
The finale is a weird fantasy takeoff on The Wizard of Oz Some readers will feel that the latest novel in King's most ambitious series has too many pages -- almost 800 -- but few will deny it's a page-turner.
The roundabout narrative leads us to Wizard of Oz territory—more particularly to a horribly transformed Topeka, Kansas—which the quintet must pass through as they seek the Dark Tower, the hub of creation, where Roland will discover some knowledge that will halt the quickening destruction of his post- technological Mid-World.
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 Glass Wizard
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 Wizard and Glass   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For those of you that are seriously allergic to spoilers I need to point out that even though I don't give any specific events away, some things in the review may reveal the on-going plot of the series in a very general way.
Wizard and Glass, the fourth book in The Dark Tower series, must have made many King fans want to scream out in frustration when it was published in 1997.
After having had to wait six years for it, what they got was a book that mainly explores events set in Roland’s youth, and there is hardly any progress of the present timeline at all.
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 WIZARD & GLASS Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Wizard and Glass is by far the most coherent of The Dark Tower Series.
I really enjoyed Wizard and Glass- It is by far the best of The Dark Tower series, and unlike the earlier books has me waiting for the next one.
Although there are a few scenes in the book not for the squeamish, it is one of King's mildest stories, not scary, and it is a fairly easy read.
www.ruidomain.com /reviews/wizglass.htm   (288 words)

  
 Penguin Reading Guides | Wizard and Glass: The Dark Tower IV| Stephen King
Coming in at nearly 700 pages, Wizard and Glass: The Dark Tower IV is in itself a stand-alone epic.
Discuss all the ways L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz colors and underlies the escapades of Roland, Eddie, Susannah, and Jake's adventures in Wizard and Glass.
Betrayal and treachery wear several faces in Wizard and Glass, and its legacy is enduring and severe, to put it mildly.
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 eBay - wizard and glass, Fiction Books, Nonfiction Books items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Wizard and Glass at Epinions.com
Wizard and Glass delves deep into Roland the gunslinger's past, revealing the most trying and self-defining period of his life.
Wizard and Glass picks up where The Waste Lands left off: the ka-tet trapped aboard Blaine the so-computerized-it's-almost-alive train.
This is where Wizard and Glass takes on a completely different story, which makes up the majority of the book.
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 Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, Book 4) by Stephen King - 0670032573 : PDXBooks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Wizard and Glass may be the very best novel Stephen King has written.
Wizard and Glass is by far the slowest read of the Dark Tower series.
What it comes down to is this: Wizard and Glass is NOT The Gunslinger, is NOT Drawing of Three, is NOT Waste Lands, and is most definitely NOT Shining or Salem's Lot.
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 Stephen King, Wizard and Glass: The Dark Tower IV
And though the boys do not realize it until much, much later there is a bit of the legendary Maerlyn's Rainbow, a glass ball which can show events elsewhere — or of the future — also hidden in nearby, in the uneasy care of the local witch, Rhea.
Wizard and Glass continues King's excellent characterization of Roland, and, if you're like me, leaves you longing for more of his past, to see the boy he was before ka (fate) stepped in and the world began to move on.
This does mean that there's precious little involvement for the other companions for most of the book, but the transitory characters King populates Roland's story with more than make up for their prolonged absence.
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 Glass Wizard
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 Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, Book 4)
If I knew what the series would become I'd have told King not to finish the series, all the promise and pathos of 'Wizard and Glass' is almost wasted with the following books.
But for the 'dark Tower' series the 'Wizard and Glass' is the pinnacle, I had to wait darn near a decade for the end of the series and then they actually came too quick because they didn't feel completed or well planned out.
However, the 'Wizard and Glass' is not a typical King novel, here he even seems to out write himself -- I never knew he was this good.
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 Amazon.com: Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, Book 4): Books: Stephen King   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
"Wizard and Glass," Volume IV of Stephen King's fantasy/western "Dark Tower" series is even better than the three books which preceded it.
"Wizard and Glass" is more a traditional fantasy novel than the other, more darkly fantastic books in the series.
It is difficult to summarize the richly detailed and intricate plot of "Wizard and Glass" and do it justice.
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 WNDU-TV: As Seen on TV Story: Glass Wizard - September 15, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Wizard and Glass (Dark Tower (Paperback)) - Stephen King - Gut Laden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
After leaving Dark Tower readers in a cliffhanger with The Waste Lands, Stephen King finally releases Wizard and Glass, which surprised me because the story Roland tells of his youth is more fascinating than the continuing quest in the first three books, and could have been published as a stand-alone novel.
However, the beginning and ending of Wizard and Glass, which picks up where The Waste Lands left off, were disappointing.
The "Wizard of Oz" bit was silly and out of place in context with the rest of the book.
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 Wizard Glass
Spike blinked in surprise as she removed his glasses, and then the Slayer was dragging his head to hers, pressing her lips forcefully against his, and trying to slide her tongue past his lips.
Wizard Glass was notorious in the realm of magick, the crystal orb controlled by the fl forces that first created them, and the flest of magick could make it function, the orb mostly used for spying on people and casting dark, dangerous spells.
The Wizard Glass went crystal clear briefly, and when Willow lifted her head, she was staring at reflection of Buffy, a dead on reproduction, save that her eyes remained green instead of the smoky hazel that Buffy sported.
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 Kev's Stephen King House of Wizard and Glass
Here, he puts the device to great effect, taking from tales that not only add enjoyment to this fourth volume, but are imperitive to it.
The reader will enjoy the sly and overt Wizard of Ozreferences (parts of it were so exactly like the filmed version [Oy pulling at the curtain], it was just thisclose to plagarism -- but still great).
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard & Glass is a terrific book, both on the basis of a single volume and as the fourth part of a very large whole.
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 Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, Book 4): Stephen King, Frank Muller, Audio Cassette   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, Book 4): Stephen King, Frank Muller
Consumer Summary - Wizard and Glass, Episode IV in King's genuinely bizarre Dark Tower series, spends very little time in the series' ongoing narrative.
Which is diminished only by the dreadful back-in-the-present coda where all of the previous evocations of The Wizard of Oz become numbingly obvious, and the Dark Tower series returns to its goofily mannered previous course.
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 Starlight - Wizard and Glass
The draconians behind him eyed the elven wizard with wary suspicion, whereas the elf in the green cloak leading the way regarded him with disdain.
The wizard could make out little of the dragon's features in the darkness, but he judged from the slight narrowing of the creature's eyes that it found his salutation rather amusing and pleasingly to the point.
The man tortured and raped her for months, and when Athica was released she was pregnant with Amuril, an innocent child used as a weapon to taunt the dark wizard's enemies.
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