5/22/2023 0 Comments The wind and the keyhole![]() ![]() Reading King's 11.22.63 earlier in the year had appeared a good omen as I found his writing skills and imagination to be undiminished by time, and arguably at a level not achieved for some time. It was magnificent and as I write this review I am tempted to say that it is the best book in the series… But I think I should defer that accolade for a later date. Not all that is eagerly awaited meets the expectations but when this book arrived in April (pre-ordered, that's how keen I was) I read it in only a handful of days. Today, to my horror, I realised that I had yet to write up a review for Stephen King's The Wind Through The Keyhole, a book that was one of - if not - the best books I read in 2012. 'Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them.' And stories like these, they live for us. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Book of Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, 'The Wind through the Keyhole.' 'A person's never too old for stories,' he says to Bill. Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a 'skin man', Roland takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. ![]() ![]() Roland tells a tale from his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt ridden year following his mother's death. Visit Mid-World's last gunslinger, Roland Deschain, and his ka-tet as a ferocious storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam. ![]()
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