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Dennis E. Taylor: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Paperback, 2017, Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency)

β€œBob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life …

A friend told me about this series, said I should check it out. Same friend who recommended Project Hail Mary, which was great, so I'm definitely checking this one out ASAP!

Stephen King: Wizard and Glass (Hardcover, 2003, Viking)

Roland, Eddie, Susannah, Jake, and Jake’s pet bumbler survive Blaine the Mono’s final crash, only …

In the end, this was much too long a pause in the story of Roland and the NY ka-tet for too little a reward. Coulda done with a much abbreviated version of the Roland's story about his time in Mejis.

Stephen King, Empty Author: The Drawing of the Three (Paperback, 2003, Signet)

The Drawing of the Three is a dark fantasy novel by American writer Stephen King. …

The Beginning of the End

Content warning Spoiler for prev book

Richard Adams: Shardik (Paperback, 2001, Overlook TP)

Don't know how I missed this back when I was in love with Watership Down, but King makes a reference to this book in The Waste Lands, and now I feel compelled to find and read it sometime.

Stephen King: The Gunslinger (Paperback, 1982, New American Library)

This heroic fantasy is set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace that …

Not the most exciting of beginnings

This book feels like a prologue to The Drawing of the Three and the epic to follow. I'll be honest: I'm not certain readers would be missing much if they skipped The Gunslinger entirely and relied solely on "The Argument" at the beginning of The Drawing of the Three to catch them up πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

Stephen King: The Gunslinger (Paperback, 1982, New American Library)

This heroic fantasy is set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace that …

Been so many years since I read this the first time that I forgot most of the book, so this listen held nearly as many surprises for me as it did my lover. Excited to be listening to the series with her, and especially excited that I'll finally get around to reading The Wind Through the Keyhole for the first time!