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His love for Susan clouds his reasoning for a time and nearly results in a permanent split between him and his previously inseparable friend Cuthbert. Soon after their arrival in the distant Barony of Mejis, Roland falls in love with Susan Delgado, the promised "gilly" (concubine) of Mayor Hart Thorin. Roland leaves with two companions, Cuthbert Allgood and Alain Johns. Roland bests his teacher, and his father sends him east, away from Gilead, for his own protection. In anger, Roland challenges his mentor, Cort, to a duel to earn his guns.

He did it because he discovered his father's trusted counsellor, the sorcerer Marten Broadcloak, having an affair with his mother, Gabrielle Deschain. The ka-tet leaves the city via the Kansas Turnpike, and as they camp one night next to an eerie dimensional hole which Roland calls a "thinny", the gunslinger tells his apprentices of his past, and his first encounter with a thinny.Īt the beginning of the story-within-the-story, Roland (age fourteen) earns his guns-an episode retold in the inaugural issue of The Gunslinger Born-and becomes the youngest gunslinger in memory. The world also has some other minor differences with the one (or more) known to Eddie, Jake and Susannah for instance, the Kansas City baseball team is the Monarchs (as opposed to the Royals), and Nozz-A-La is a popular soft drink. Louis 215, someone had slashed watch out for the walking dude", among others. Links between these books also include the following reference to The Walkin' Dude from The Stand on page 95, "Someone had spray-painted over both signs marking the ramp's ascending curve. The city is deserted, as this version of the world has been depopulated by the influenza of King's novel The Stand. The four gunslingers and Oy the billy-bumbler disembark at the Topeka railway station, which to their surprise is located in the Topeka, Kansas, of the 1980s. Blaine is unable to handle Eddie's "illogical" riddles and short-circuits.

After Jake, Eddie, Susannah and Roland fruitlessly riddle Blaine the Mono for several hours, Eddie defeats the mad computer by telling childish jokes. The novel begins where The Waste Lands ended. The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass Book PDF/BookĪbout/Summary of The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass Book Novels The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass Book Novels Free Download in PDF Format