Wolves of the Calla

Dec 30, 2003 by Lyanna

I bought “Wolves of the Calla” yesterday, the new installment of Stephen King’s Dark Tower Saga. Oh man oh man.

It is brilliant. As a simple next episode of the saga it is brilliant in itself. What elevates it beyond a simple book for me is the feeling that so many threads come together. King in one fell swoop manages to give his whole oeuvre a higher meaning, as if he wrote all his other books to serve as a background for this saga. I am not sure if he ever meant to, but if he didn’t, the way he braids all different plotlines together is mindboggling.

I am glad that I have read basically everything there is to read in King’s work. So many little things jump off the pages and make me think: oh! yes! aha! The mentioning of the Turtle for instance, takes me back to IT. Father Callahan brings back Salem’s Lot. Hearts in Atlantis walks past, Insomnia, etc etc. He has brought back the feeling I had when reading Wizard and Glass: that nostalgic feeling that comes with his description of a world that is old, and yet new. My heart bleeds for Suzannah and what she will become. And I fear for Jake. I don’t know why, but I do.

I am roughly halfway, and I really have to pry myself loose now if I want to get something done today. There is a big pile of laundry waiting for me and I need to go do something about it. But hell, it is difficult. If I gave into my urges, I would be reading it all day and finishing it before nightfall. And actually, I don’t want that. I want to savor it a little longer.

So laundry, here I come