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Title	:	The Wind Through the Keyhole (The Dark Tower #4.5)
Author	:	Stephen King
Book Format	:	Kindle Edition
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 322 pages
Published	:	April 24th 2012 by Scribner (first published February 21st 2012)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Horror

The Wind Through the Keyhole (The Dark Tower #4.5)

Stephen King

Kindle Edition | Pages: 322 pages

Rating: 4.15 | 63540 Users | 5083 Reviews

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Stephen King returns to the rich landscape of Mid-World, the spectacular territory of the Dark Tower fantasy saga that stands as his most beguiling achievement.

Roland Deschain and his ka-tet—Jake, Susannah, Eddie, and Oy, the billy-bumbler—encounter a ferocious storm just after crossing the River Whye on their way to the Outer Baronies. As they shelter from the howling gale, Roland tells his friends not just one strange story but two . . . and in so doing, casts new light on his own troubled past.

In his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt-ridden year following his mother’s death, Roland is sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape-shifter, a “skin-man” preying upon the population around Debaria. Roland takes charge of Bill Streeter, the brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast’s most recent slaughter. Only a teenager himself, Roland calms the boy and prepares him for the following day’s trials by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother often read to him at bedtime. “A person’s never too old for stories,” Roland says to Bill. “Man and boy, girl and woman, never too old. We live for them.” And indeed, the tale that Roland unfolds, the legend of Tim Stoutheart, is a timeless treasure for all ages, a story that lives for us.

King began the Dark Tower series in 1974; it gained momentum in the 1980s; and he brought it to a thrilling conclusion when the last three novels were published in 2003 and 2004. The Wind Through the Keyhole is sure to fascinate avid fans of the Dark Tower epic. But this novel also stands on its own for all readers, an enchanting and haunting journey to Roland’s world and testimony to the power of Stephen King’s storytelling magic.

~from first edition jacket

Mention Books Concering The Wind Through the Keyhole (The Dark Tower #4.5)

Original Title:	The Wind Through the Keyhole
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Dark Tower #4.5
Characters:	Roland Deschain
Literary Awards:	Goodreads Choice Award for Fantasy (2012)

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I have read a few negative reviews of this book that make excellent points about why this is a disappointing addition to the Dark Tower canon. I can't really disagree with them. And yet I enjoyed this story. The difference, I think, lies more with my expectations than the execution.My favorite part of the Dark Tower is the world King slowly assembled over the course of the series, and the way he eventually tied it in to a dozen or so of his other novels, creating a vast meta-fictional landscape.

It was good to be back in Midworld, if only for a short visit. This book is three stories in one, and those looking for an expansion of the quest for the Tower will be disappointed. Only the frame story contains Roland and his ka-tet from our world. Roland tells Jake, Eddie, and Susannah a tale from his days as a young gunslinger, but even that story is just another frame for the true story: The Wind Through the Keyhole, a fairytale Roland's mother told him when he was a young boy. The fairytale

Does this guy ever stop? I sure hope not. Live forever, Stevie baby, live forever.3.5 stars

While taking shelter from a storm along the Path of the Beam, Roland tells his ka-tet a story from his youth, about going up against a skin-man with Jamie DeCurry, in which he tells a frightened youth yet another story to bolster his courage...First off, it pains me to give a Dark Tower book less than four stars but I thought this one was on par with Wizard and Glass.The Wind Through the Keyhole is really three tales nested within one another. One features our beloved ka-tet, somewhere between

★★★★☆½ It was the best of times, it was the worst of timesit was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. Whoops! Wrong quote there, but it seems somewhat appropriate for such a polarizing little book. Im truly shocked at how varied the ratings are on this one, even amongst friends whose opinions I trust. I typically avoid all the .5 stories, since theyre usually just pointless filler, and seeing some of those one star ratings out there was not especially encouraging. Our fearless

Stephen King concluded his brilliant epic Dark Tower series in 2004. In 2012 he returned to this universe to add The Wind Through the Keyhole, set in the story between the events of Wizard and Glass and Wolves of the Calla.This is a story within a story being told as a recollection of Roland. While many fans of the series lamented and were even angered by Kings failing to add a substantive chapter to the series, this succeeds in adding colorful detail to Rolands past which truth be told is a

The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.The story within a story within a story format is something that would put me off a book, yet it works so perfectly in The Wind Through the Keyhole. In what is effectively an additional backstory book within The Dark Tower series, we learn of another story from Rolands younger years, of when Jamie De Curry and himself are sent to a town called Debaria to look into what has become known as The Skin-Man.The Skin-Man is