The Dark Tower

[Irving]

Is the kid supposed to be the coke addict in the book? Eddie was it? <-- Not at all a spoiler.

The cool thing about The Dark Tower is that it is supposed to be the universe that he refers to in many other books. While I've read a few of his books, I never went down that rabbit hole of reading every book that had references to the Dark Tower universe. I really liked the Dark Tower series when I read it. Wizard and Glass (#4) was my favorite.

[MrAK]

Wizard and the Glass was my favorite too. I'm curious about how they're going to incorporate the "shimmies" and concept of the universe rotting.

Is the kid supposed to be the coke addict in the book? Eddie was it? <-- Not at all a spoiler.

The cool thing about The Dark Tower is that it is supposed to be the universe that he refers to in many other books. While I've read a few of his books, I never went down that rabbit hole of reading every book that had references to the Dark Tower universe. I really liked the Dark Tower series when I read it. Wizard and Glass (#4) was my favorite.

[Martinjmpr]

Is the kid supposed to be the coke addict in the book? Eddie was it? <-- Not at all a spoiler.

I'm assuming the kid was Jake, the boy that Roland travels with during part of his journey. Eddie was "the prisoner" (i.e. the junkie.) Eddie came into the series later than Jake, I think it was in the 2nd book (from my recollection the chapter was called "The pusher, the prisoner and the lady of the shadows" - the "pusher" was a psychopathic killer who liked to push people in front of subway trains, the "prisoner" was Eddie, the junkie, and the "lady of the shadows" was Susannah, the legless woman.)

The last two books were terrible. By the time I got halfway through the last one I really had lost interest but wanted to finish the series so I just sort of ground through it.