Stephen King's Dark Tower series / Sept 2001 p-list posts

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

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> From: jd [mailto:wescac at gmail.com]
> 
> Man, I used to love those Gunslinger books when I was back in high
> school, but it just took too long for him to finish up and I stopped
> reading that sort of book...  I should really finish the series one of
> these days...  I think I've only read the first four books.  He tells
> the reader not to read the end?
> 

my bad, it's not the Waste Land series (that'd be a novelization of TS Eliot - why not, it worked for Cats) 

It's the Dark Tower series, I think.  One of them is called The Waste Lands. And there are auctorial addresses to the reader at the end of several of the books.  There's also a Stephen King character or two or three who appear, one has a much bigger than cameo role.
He did get hit by a van, but the Stephen King character anyway claims to have more or less been slacking which that's why it took so long

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Speaking of September 2001 posts, there's a great thread toward the beginning of the month http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0109&msg=59127&sort=date