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在命悬一线的最后关头，埃蒂终于想出了一道谜语，摧毁了布莱因。单轨火车在托皮卡停了下来，这儿已被超级流感侵袭。在罗兰和他的朋友们沿着光束的路径继续行程之前，吊足了“塔迷”们胃口的金大师终于开始讲述罗兰十四岁时的初恋故事，慰藉了一下从第一本开始就被罗兰的过去这个巨大的悬念勒得透不过气来的读者。
内领地危机四伏，为了保护罗兰，他的父亲将罗兰和他最好的伙伴库斯伯特与阿兰一起，化名派往眉脊泗的海滨小城罕布雷。三个稚气未脱的少年很快就敏锐地发现这儿正酝酿着极大的阴谋，形势甚至比内领地更为严峻。在到达罕布雷的第一个晚上，罗兰就与十六岁的金发女孩苏珊一见钟情。但苏珊为拯救她的家族刚刚做了一个可怕的决定，这意味着她与罗兰已经可不能坦然相恋。两个年轻人一方面无法对抗自己内心的强烈情感，另一方面又非常清楚地知道，他们的爱将会置他们于最凶险的境地……
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Roland, Eddie, Susannah, Jake, and Jake’s pet bumbler survive Blaine the Mono’s final crash, only to find themselves stranded in an alternate version of Topeka, Kansas, one that has been ravaged by the superflu virus. While following the deserted I-70 toward a distant glass palace, they hear the atonal squalling of a thinny, a place where the fabric of existence has almost entirely worn away. While camping near the edge of the thinny, Roland tells his ka-tet a story about another thinny, one that he encountered when he was little more than a boy. Over the course of one long magical night, Roland transports us to the Mid-World of long-ago and a seaside town called Hambry, where Roland fell in love with a girl named Susan Delgado, and where he and his old tet-mates Alain and Cuthbert battled the forces of John Farson, the harrier who—with a little help from a seeing sphere called Maerlyn’s Grapefruit—ignited Mid-World’s final war.
Apparently I never finished this the first time around...or that part of my memory is gone...however the journey continues and Roland becomes more defined. The Ka-tet survives Oz and is back one the beam, matching toward the Dark Tower...