Dark Tower Palaver

📖 Section Covered: Part 3, Chapter 9 Subchapters 10-17

📢 Episode Summary:

In the latest Book Club for Wizard and Glass Tadd and Peter are still in the pre-dawn morning of Reaping Day. Our Tet sees Jonas's party split up. Susan decides to sleep outside and Sheemie goes to pee as Jonas arrives and takes Susan prisoner while Sheemie watches from the distance. Cuthbert is not very happy about mo...

(Note please excuse some technical difficulties. Tadd has been working on his computer and despite making sure everything was working an hour or so before the stream it of course went ot shit right as the show started) It is mostly fine but there is a bit of roughness in the first few minutes.)

In the latest Round Table Tadd and Peter talk about The Long Walk and a bit about The Institute (Peter has finished it but Tadd has not yet...

(Sections Covered: Part 3, Chapter 9 Subchapters 4-9)

In the latest Book Club for Wizard and Glass Tadd and Peter find themselves in the pre-dawn hours of Reaping Day. Roland and his Ka-Tet regroup after blowing up Citgo and take stock of their  weapons and lay out their plans. Roland and Susan talk about the odds she sees them again. Jonas and Clay with a small group (including Rhea and the ball) ride for Hanging Rock, but the bal...

In the latest Round Table Tadd and Peter palaver through all of the happenings, including a date for Welcome to Derry and Muschietti overtly mentioning The Dark Tower, King to collaborate on a new post-apocalyptic book, King did an AMA, King's one condition for The Long Walk, King is asked if Roland wears a hat, The Institute gets a Season 2, The Running Man delayed a week, and Tadd asks a few hypotheticals in the Palaver section. 

(Sections Covered: Part 3, Chapter 8 Subchapters 10-13 & Chapter 9 Subchapters 1-3)

In the latest Book Club for Wizard & Glass Tadd and Peter find Susan executing her plan to spring our boys out of jail, and she takes her first two lives which understandably rattles her. They all regroup after the events in the jail and decide to roll through their plan and set Citgo to burn. Jonas and Coral are interrupted in bed by the Citgo expl...

(Sections Covered: Part 3, Chapter 8 Subchapters 1-9)

In the latest Book Club Mejis is still reeling and hedging on panic from the murders from early that morning. Susan sees this panic and is taken up in it herself, but her panic is more for the accused. She rides quickly through town and winds up back at her old house and has a huge blowup with Cordelia and ashes. Later she sees the Coffin Hunters riding back to town with Rhea. S...

In the latest Round Table Tadd and Peter talk through some articles on if the Dark Tower is needed to "get" King, how The Institute is a perfect teaster for Flanagan's Dark Tower, some SDCC news for The Long Walk and Welcome to Derry including new trailers for both, The Girl Who Loves Tom Gordon is getting an adaptation, and a bunch more, also a few emails including Peter's wife (terrified of clowns) finally finished reading IT! 

(Sections Covered: Part 3, Chapter 7 Subchapters 5-12)

In the latest Book Club Tadd and Peter get to one of the more underrated  great moments in the series, when Roland identifies the backstory of Jonas as a failed gunslinger. Susan is shaken awake and told of the murders. The Coffin Hunters prepare the rest of their plan now that the boys are jailed. Rhea sees the peculiar habits of a specific woman of Mejis through the ball and ...

In the latest Round Table King posts that Talisman 3 is almost done and confirms we will find ourselves back in Mid-World! Then some articles talking through some Flanagan things like should he change the end and where should Kate Siegel be cast in the series. Also Carrie is now filming! We are also getting a new adaptation of The Stand.... a single film..... Okay. Some bits on The Institute that is a few weeks from starting. Also ...

Sections Covered: Part 3, Chapter 6, Subchapters 9-13 and Chapter 7 Subchapters 1-4)

In the latest Book Club for Wizard and Glass Tadd and Peter are right on the verge of Reaping. Olive has a nightmare and shares her last hours in bed with her husband, Roy makes sure the Sheriff and his men are ready to arrest the boys, Susan and Roland have their last love making together (as King himself tells us here) while Susan has bad feeling...

In the latest Round Table Flanagan talks Dark Tower a bit on the circuit for Life of Chuck, also a whole ton of news on Carrie that will be beginning production any day now. And King is killing WB's copyright license for Shawshank! Tadd and Peter also discuss the new (since the last Round Table at least) trailers for Welcome to Derry and The Institute.

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Sections Covered: Part 3, Chapter 6, Subchapters 1-8)

In the latest Book Club Tadd and Peter find Mejis with a matter of days until reap and the Barony is hard at work to finish the harvest and get ready for Reaping Day. Sheemie delivers some graf to Seafront and with the help of Susan smuggles some fireworks out in the empty barrels. Reynolds checks in at Citgo where a number of towns folks are on guard. Rhea is deteriorating fa...

In the latest episode Tadd and Peter palaver about Never Flinch which has finally announced the narrator for the audiobook and King has a video reading an excerpt, they dive deep into an article breaking down how Flanagan's DT can take inspiration from Castle Rock. Also there is a first look for The Long Walk and a bunch more!

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Sections Covered Part 3 Chapter 5, Subchapters 6–9)

In the latest Book Club Tadd and Peter rejoin Susan and the boys in the graveyard where they talk about Sheemie and Jonas as well as Rhea. They then hypnotize Susan to figure out about the pink dead zone in her mind and they finally figure out what Rhea has. We also flashback to Steven's final words to the boys before they left on this journey. And Roland rides Susan back to Sea...

In the latest Round Table Tadd and Peter palaver about the latest news in the King realm including; Flanagan getting a greenlight for Carrie at Amazon as well as he has his Carrie and Sue Snell, Netflix is doing the first re-adaptation of Cujo (Carrie has 4 soon to be 5 and Cujo only has 1 soon to be 2, wild), The Long Walk gets its release date, and Peter is able to react to the March Insanity results and the email jingle returns!...

Sections Covered Part 3 Chapter 5, Subchapters 1–5)

In the latest Book Club Tadd and Peter start to see the final plans of both sides. First Jonas meets with Depape, Reynolds, Coral Thorin, and Latigo and they talk about the movement of the tankers that is actively going on. We find out Latigo brought 100 Soldiers and the plan is to kill Mayor Thorin and Rimer and frame the boys as responsible and working for Farson. The boys mee...

Sections Covered Part 3 Chapter 4, Subchapters 13–19)

Tadd and Peter go back into Mid-World and find Jonas meeting Randall Flagg and being as shaken, if not more, than Roy seemed to be. Then Cuthbert returns to the bunkhouse and we see the biggest blowup with the boys yet including a sucker punch and showing the Rhea note to both Alain and Roland. Then after simmering down Roland and Cuthbert go and see Rhea (and Ermot) and Roland ...

In the latest Round Table Tadd and Peter talk about the wild day or two of news that King was writing for the Flanagan Dark Tower, then they hit an article breaking down why adapting The Dark Tower is so difficult (and Peter makes his true feelings known about Tull hahah). Then Gwendy is getting an Omnibus, King is writing a Hansel and Gretel book, and Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream is getting adapted! Then there is a few minutes of Mo...

Sections Covered Part 3 Chapter 4, Subchapters 1–12)

In the first Book Club of 2025 Tadd and Peter dive back into Wizard & Glass. They find the young Ka-Tet leaving for the day and Roland sees something before they leave. Sheemie has to go up the Cöos to deliver something to Rhea and is given something to deliver to Cordelia. Alain senses that something is wrong back at the Bar K, Roland doesn't seem to care. What he is sense is Jo...