Book 3 review Wind Through the Keyhole

The Wind Through the Keyhole is an amazing Science fiction with ties of dystopian.  The Wind Through the Keyhole is about a gunslinger which is a sheriff type person in Mid-World, named Roland, who with his apprentices and friends Eddie, Susannah, Jake, and a billy-bumbler Oy, are trying to find the center of every world, the Dark Tower.  They are stuck in a large storm and are stuck according to Roland for a day or two while it passes.  So in that time Roland tells of a time when he and another apprentice gunslinger from long ago go to hunt a “Skin-Changer” or shape shifter. 
                The characters are, all throughout the Dark Tower series, progressive they are not ever thrown at you each one has a back story in book two The Drawing of Three.  All the characters are then seen adjusting to the world of which has been destroyed by their standards.  Eddie, who the Oracle which confronts Roland about first describes, “The Prisoner held by the demon Heroin.” This introduces the fact he is a druggie and he is probably going to have a hard time adjusting to Mid-World.  Susannah is a black woman with a double personality one who is peaceful and can’t do anything useful and one who is so violent that she is too much of a liability. Jake is a kid at around fifteen years of age who was originally with Roland just awhile back but he died and was brought back to Mid-world and is now at peace with the current time rather than having lived two.  Then there is Oy, he is a billy-bumbler who is a bit like a cross between a dog and a raccoon that is a pet that is also very useful through the story.

                The story is told in third person always saying “Roland said” or “Susannah thought to herself”.  The story always leads up to another part of itself whether it’s a “we’ll talk about it later” moment or “This isn’t gonna be fun” type of finish.  The ka-tet or group together because destiny or fate makes it such, goes into a destroyed city and finds a newspaper box with a still good newspaper inside.  The group opens the box but the newspaper says that the whole world was hit by a huge super-flu.  The population was dying by the numbers that haven’t been seen throughout all of the human races’ history.  But the whole group knows that whatever life they had they could have been in the strain of world and time that was hit by the super-flu.  Jake then read off that no one could find a cure or a vaccine and that every major scientist had basically given up.  Though through the story you see that people survived.  Mutations were rampant among humans and other animals and over time almost every shred of law and decency was burned along with New Canaan, the center of all the Gunslingers.  Almost every gun and bit of ammo was gone.  The world was distorting.  The human race and every universe were falling apart.  Destiny had formed this Ka-tet to save the universe and they must make it to the Dark Tower if they must… It is their destiny.

                The whole story is the Ka-tet going through Mid-world going towards the center of all the beams, all the worlds, to stop all the distortion that is consuming the whole world and then some.  They brave harsh environments, A.I. (artificial intelligence) that have gone insane with boredom and corruption of their initial programing,  gangs of humans that want power, power of the old world before the flu.  The ka-tet  is put through test of mental intelligence and physical endurance for if they lack in any aspect when they die the universe dies with them.

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To be non-fiction a book must be that, it must be true.  A non-fiction by description is true, fiction is false.  That’s why science fiction ISNT true same as historical fiction.  Auto and normal biographies are meant to be true as well and memoirs must be too.  No person can find or remembers one hundred percent of someone life so it’s fine if it’s a bit untrue one way or another and so long as the story itself is not changed by a large margin.  A book that is labeled non-fiction or any other that is supposed to be true I think should be around ninetyish percent true.  I do think as well half-truths aren’t good at all.  The truth must be told is a story that is meant to be true not lies, not half-truths, they must be true. A lie here and there is excusable only if you don’t remember the event or if you can’t find data on the event.  It is important that if you are writing a non-fiction book that you tell the truth as it happened not how you want it to happen.  I don’t think though that we necessarily need lines between genres.  I think they are useful if you’re looking for something in particular but only if that otherwise I don’t think they are beneficial for a reader.  If a writer is known for a type of book and writes a type he hasn’t before it is more inclined to be ignored.  Such as if Stephen King who writes horrors writes a romance it is quite possible it will be ignored by a large margin of his readers. 

Readicide

I think that they should let us read but what we want to read not what the ciriculum wants us to read.  I think we should get rid of one story and add one that people like but not Twilight, Twilight we should burn... all of them.  But we should get hold of some more entertaining books and not books that we as students couldn't care less about.  Ones like some of Stephen Kings books or maybe some other book that is well written yes but fun to read.  I don't think that we shouldn't read I think that we should read.  But we should read something more entertaing or something about our time leave historic books for history class.  Ditch To kill a mockingbird and put in The Gunslinger no one cares about how a girl's brother got his arm broken. No one cares about the fake Odyssey which was written in greek times.  Dont forget what happened no but its just not as revelant.  I dont like Literary Fiction and Genre would work a lot better.  Dont get me wrong i like some of the school books but at the same time i think that there are a lot better books about examples of good plot work and how the books are written than those written more than half a century ago.  I like To Kill a Mockingbird its so far the best book you HAVE to read but yet at the same time it is outdated since it was written by a woman in the great depression.  So in recap we should read some books that are old or that are boring but at the same time we should read something better or at least more current.

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Black Hawk Down is already a good adaptation from a book into a movie.  It does vary though from both but that is expected from going from a book to a movie.  I do think though that they should keep the crash were the first Black Hawk goes down as well as the second since it describes how we fough to keep our own alive and away from the enemy and where we couldn't get to it in time.  Another scene they can't forget is the scene where they all get ready to head back into the city to rescue the captured pilot at any cost because that is showing what we would do for each other on the field.  The last scene they can't forget is the one where that a Delta got out of an evac vehicle to aim his gun at the driver, who couldn't really understand english well, so that he would stop and other soldiers could get on.  I do understand how they couldn't put everything in the movie and i could see them skipping the many arguements that were less important and that didn't make a large impact while on the battlefield.  I also see them taking out a lot of the wounded so that the people watching could watch the more important parts or so that we wouldn't actually see how bad the wounded were.

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11/22/63 is a very good book by Stephen King who is mainly known for his writing as a horror style books.  Such as IT or The Shining which my parents claimed need to be kept in the freezer due to how scary it is.  Stephen King himself has been writing for around fortyish years and has had many people follow a lot of his series and books throughout his time as a writer.  He has had many good reviews such as on amazon.com as of April third of twenty twelve there are 1,538 reviews and 1,409 are positive reviews and that is only for his current book 11/22/63 and not any of the others he has written.  I myself have been a fan for only a year and a half and what got me hooked on his books were the Dark Tower series.  They were strange, funny; they answered all the questions throughout the series, and most of all they were touching.  The Stephen King we all know is a great writer which even if his books aren’t up your alley you would have to admit that he is.

                A book is usually decent if it has a good described protagonist, same for the antagonist, a good described plot, useful supporting characters, and maybe a love interest.  Stephen King has done this and he has improved it over forty years of hard work and practice.  His protagonists are described not in one go but they are introduced and then they develop like 11/22/63 Jake Epping the main character will progress overtime to help those he truly likes or respects.  “I’m not a crying man.” He says multiple times yet in one time, while grading papers since he is a teacher, he does because of a paper that is so horrifying it’s touching and he had to read on. So when he went to the past he had to steel himself to do what had to be done later on to stop that horrifying thing from happening.  “What is the most important thing in life, Dunning?” Epping said right before he put a stop to a terrible thing in the future and stop even further consequences in his future as well. 

                In many of his stories King has made his support characters always start out as such but they always develop into bigger characters so that you see them as the protagonist just like the first main one.  His plots rarely stay still his books have a motion in action, a problem at hand, or a turning point right about to hit you when you least expect it.  His antagonists as well are greatly thought out and designed.  They will have a story like any other protagonist and a reason why they fight the protagonist and any other outside influence to their conflict.  And of course many books have a love interest but his are a sub-plot within the story and more that affects the story and the after part like Epping’s interest into Sadie Dunhill someone you would read about in half the reviews of why this is a good book.   

                “Angel.  It was the second time I’d heard that, and I pondered the word…”  Is the line he says when in the past he saves someone from a lot of pain and misery throughout the characters life.  The first time he went through with it he had to stop a murder of a whole family from their father.  He did it but at the cost of one of the child’s life’s but saved the mother and the two other kids, but he later on learned that the other boy he meant to save went to Vietnam only to die on a later date and when he learned that kid said that Epping was his guardian angel that was meant to look over him only he couldn’t while traveling through time. 

                The book is touching and has everything a book needs to succeed and then some.  It has the plot, the great protagonist and plot, the antagonist, Lee Oswald and time itself.  “Time is obdurate.” Which is it doesn’t want to change and will resist so the saying time isn’t on your side is for once very unfortunately true.  If you haven’t read this book go to your library and pick it up now.