The book begins with our hero gunslinger, Roland Deschain leading two apprentices – expatriates of our world, Eddie and Susannah Dean – across the strange dystopian realm of Mid-World. Also, the next book in the Dark Tower series, Wizard and Glass, didn’t come out until 1997, so I had six years to re-read and pick apart The Waste Lands while I twiddled my thumbs. In my defense, I was a kid and I had not yet discovered girls and there wasn’t a lot to do out in the boonies where I grew up. This also reveals a level of study I’m not entirely comfortable admitting to. This is going to be a little inside-baseball for anyone who isn’t a die-hard Dark Tower fan. You see, there’s a riddle hidden inside with an answer that Stephen King has never owned up to. But I haven’t stopped thinking about one little piece of it. And somewhere along the way I lost that book.
I felt feverish as I flipped through the pages to get a look at all of Ned Dameron’s wonderful illustrations of Mid-World: the giant bear with the satellite dish on its head, the giant monster house, Jake finding the rose… I had no idea what any of these paintings meant but they pulled at me like a great magnet. I remember finding the softback edition on an endcap in the Waldenbooks at Westgate Mall near Cleveland. It was all I wanted for Christmas that year. Follow him on Twitter was thirteen years old when The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands was published, in 1991, about the same age as Jake Chambers, my favorite character from those stories.
Renner is the author of the novel, The Man from Primrose Lane, and the new nonfiction thriller, True Crime Addict.
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