I'm a few weeks late. I finished parts 1 & 2 Sunday and I thoroughly enjoyed this. I forgot how good this book is. Mark Twain is quoted in the beginning and The Talisman is about a journey and has elements of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. I think Jack and Wolf (sounds like a drink
) are a bit like Jim and Huck.
I'm trying to figure my timelines out and am wondering was this was our (SK readers) first exposure to parallel worlds? I know
The Gunslinger has a publication date of 1982 but I think that was a limited release. I'm pretty sure I didn't read the gunslinger until the trade paperback version was released. In The Gunslinger, the story took place in another world but I don't think the parallel worlds were clear until the next book.
In one of Jack's made up stories he was telling while hitchhiking, he said a stepfather named Aubrey beat him up. James Aubrey played Ralph in the 1963 Lord Of The Flies movie. I wonder if James Aubrey was the inspiration for that name?
I also noticed that the Academy award Lily was nominated for was for a movie called Blaze.