King announces eigth Dark Tower novel "The Wind Through the Keyhole"; I choke a bitch

[Magus]

Okay, so no, I didn't choke a bitch, namely hunting down King and getting my strangulation on, but I was about to when reading about this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_Through_the_Keyhole

But from what I read there in his little quote it's sounding more like a spin-off and interquel than something directly impactful/added-on to the already gargantuan series that he took a hundred years to write and barely even finished...I seriously laughed/choked at his saying that the seven books already written are really only parts of an even longer uber-novel. I don't know whether to laugh or cry, really.

I'm now fairly behind it since it appears to be something that is in the "prequel" time before Roland creates the second ka-tet, actually sounds pretty cool, and is an interquel of some sorts.

[stabbity death]

A sequel to The Shining?

sweet weeping jesus.

I'm reading The Dark Tower for the first time (almost finished with Wolves of the Calla). I hope it (this sort-of eighth book) won't come along for awhile because I'm going to be pretty burned out by the time I finish the seventh book.

[The Sevenshot Kid]

King isn't the writer he used to be. Let's just leave it at that.

[Magus]

Personally I've never really been a fan of him outside of the Dark Tower series, and personally I thought it started to go downhill when he sort of shoehorned in characters from other books in his "multiverse" and then, you know, did that thing with the final book where a certain somebody is the PINION OF THE UNIVERSE...lame and stupid. I try to forget about that part of the book but urgh.

Stabbity, don't read the Coda to the seventh book, stop when King tells you to stop, you'll like it better, I think. I like how he warns you you won't like the Coda, but proceeded to write it that way anyway...sheesh.

Obviously you'll read it anyway but YOU WERE WARNED.

[Meister]

because I'm going to be pretty burned out by the time I finish the seventh book.
Yeah, if you're anything like the majority of readers there's a good chance you won't care either way anymore after the seventh book.

[stabbity death]

Stabbity, don't read the Coda to the seventh book, stop when King tells you to stop, you'll like it better, I think. I like how he warns you you won't like the Coda, but proceeded to write it that way anyway...sheesh.

Obviously you'll read it anyway but YOU WERE WARNED.

It's a trick he used in Black House (one of those books which eventually shows a lot of The Dark Tower references). He (they, I guess--he co-wrote this one with Peter Straub), similarly cuts the narrative at the happy-ending point and tells you not to continue because you won't like what happens.

I read on, did not like what happened, and I imagine I'll do it again when I get to book seven because, as you said, obviously I'll do it no matter how much I don't want to.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

I actually liked the end of The Dark Tower.

...

What?? Somebody had to!

But nahh, there is no 8th DT book, no matter what King says. *Proceeds to stick his fingers in his ears and go "La la la la la la la la la", until the discussion ends.*

[Magus]

It's really not, since Roland and Cuthbert are supposedly side characters and its merely an interquel set in the same universe or something like that...

Not even sure why he says its a Dark Tower book other than that it takes places in Mid-World.

[Meister]

Not even sure why he says its a Dark Tower book other than that it takes places in Mid-World.
Has he been able to keep the Dark Tower thing out of any of his recent books? In the 90s it felt like he inserted an element in literally every book he wrote. Like, you wouldn't think a coming-of-age story set in 1960's USA would offer a lot of opportunity to insert the ongoing fantasy epic but whoops! What I'm getting at is that if King can't leave the Dark Tower alone in those books that are set in the real world, it's a safe bet that one set in mid-world is going to be all about it.

[Yrcrazypa]

Is it bad that I read it as King Steve instead of just King?

[DarkDrgon]

i dunno, mixed feelings. I liked the short story set right before Gunslinger, and Im a huge King fan so Im going to read it anyway, but I dont think its gonna be that bad.

[Magus]

The Little Sisters of Something-Something? I've been meaning to read that one. Does anyone know if it's available in anything other than that Legends anthology?