{"id":3670,"date":"2023-12-13T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T22:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=3670"},"modified":"2023-10-12T22:06:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T04:06:51","slug":"book-song-of-susannah-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/13\/book-song-of-susannah-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: Song of Susannah (2004)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SongSong of Susannah
\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2004
\nAuthor: Stephen King
\nLength: 822 minutes \/ 13.70 hours<\/p>\n

Six books into the Dark Tower<\/em> series, and I’m glad that things are wrapping up. I felt Wolves of the Calla<\/em><\/a> was only as good as it was because it was clearly a ripoff of The Magnificent Seven<\/em> (1960). <\/em>And with so many of the books in this series focusing on the men of the ka-tet, it was nice to get a book that mostly focused on Susannah’s experiences. A lot of weird stuff happened in this book, but at least it laid the groundwork for the last entry in the series.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the weirdest part of this book was its meta-narrative with Stephen King. I was a little surprised this fourth-wall-breaking move worked as well as it did. Then again, King clearly hinted that this was a possibility in the previous book in the series. Author self-inserts usually take the form of the main character living out the author’s fantasies. However, literal<\/em> author self-inserts are a little rarer. It also felt like King was trying to remind himself why he started on this Dark Tower<\/em> series at all, which doesn’t instill a lot of confidence in the reader.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t wild about the somewhat cliffhanger ending, but it didn’t matter too much as I knew I could jump into The Dark Tower<\/em> shortly after finishing this book. It’s mostly frustrating because there are a lot of things that are cut short in this book that clearly will be resolved in the next. Song of Susannah<\/em> gathered King’s top ideas from his previous works, making it almost a “greatest hits” from his bibliography. That there’s been some good action in books five and six of the series bodes well for the conclusion.<\/p>\n

A meta setup for the last book of the Dark Tower<\/em> series, I give Song of Susannah<\/em> 4.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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