DT Typos, Bloopers and Artwork Mistakes.

[Jean]

I am sure there are no mistakes. Every apparent mistake is a manifestation of a truth yet unknown.

(I am talking only about the DT series now, not spelling mistakes or inability to make sums)

[wizardsrainbow]

doesn't anyone have a bigger picture? Can it be that he is holding the cigarette between the ring finger and the pinkie, and that shadow is the stumps? (not that I really believe that, though)

ask carlosdetweiller. He has the original painting hanging in his home!

[wizardsrainbow]

OK. I wish Whelan could answer the question about Eddie holding the wrong eye when he was shot.

I will ask Michael the next time I see him.

[Dud-a-chum?]

I don't understand why people are bothered by little mistakes like that when King has described Susannah with legs on many occasions, That to me is his most unforgivable sin.

I can't be bothered by little mistakes maybe because I am not able to notice them at all but where did King describe Susannah with legs? I am interested in it.

Well, one place that I can recall just off the top of my head is after Eddie falls at Blue Heaven. If I remember right, (and please someone with a copy of the book handy correct me if I'm wrong) Susannah was said to have "got to her feet and jumped up and down" As she was feeling the grief and denial of what had just happened. Maybe it wasn't worded exactly that way, but yeah, I'm pretty sure it's there.

Also, I can't remember any other specific moments, but King will describe Susannah as "running" from time to time as well, and doing other things that one without legs couldn't really do. I'm not saying I can remember exactly what he describes her doing but I remember catching King on this more than once in the books, so those moments must be there somewhere.

[Letti]

I don't understand why people are bothered by little mistakes like that when King has described Susannah with legs on many occasions, That to me is his most unforgivable sin.

I can't be bothered by little mistakes maybe because I am not able to notice them at all but where did King describe Susannah with legs? I am interested in it.

Well, one place that I can recall just off the top of my head is after Eddie falls at Blue Heaven. If I remember right, (and please someone with a copy of the book handy correct me if I'm wrong) Susannah was said to have "got to her feet and jumped up and down" As she was feeling the grief and denial of what had just happened. Maybe it wasn't worded exactly that way, but yeah, I'm pretty sure it's there.

Also, I can't remember any other specific moments, but King will describe Susannah as "running" from time to time as well, and doing other things that one without legs couldn't really do. I'm not saying I can remember exactly what he describes her doing but I remember catching King on this more than once in the books, so those moments must be there somewhere.

I am not a native speaker so for me it's much harder to catch such mistakes.
So should he have written "rushing" instead of running? My question might sound stupid but in Hungarian it's quite okay to say that "she was running" (however she had no legs) because in that case it means she was rushing.

(I must find that jumping part.)

[Jean]

must have been some other place

“Eddie!” Susannah screamed, and began a loping crawl toward him, thrusting herself on her hands. He’s not hurt bad, she told herself, not hurt bad, dear God don’t let my man be hurt bad—

if I find anything resembling "legs" or "feet" in connection with Susannah, I'll post it, but I sincerely do not remember it.

[Letti]

must have been some other place

“Eddie!” Susannah screamed, and began a loping crawl toward him, thrusting herself on her hands. He’s not hurt bad, she told herself, not hurt bad, dear God don’t let my man be hurt bad—

Anyway...

it's simply horrible to reread these sentences...

[Dud-a-chum?]

must have been some other place

“Eddie!” Susannah screamed, and began a loping crawl toward him, thrusting herself on her hands. He’s not hurt bad, she told herself, not hurt bad, dear God don’t let my man be hurt bad—

if I find anything resembling "legs" or "feet" in connection with Susannah, I'll post it, but I sincerely do not remember it.

If you can't find it, I will try to find it in my own copy of the book when I get back to my other place. But keep looking. I'm pretty sure it's there, just further on than what you posted.

P.S. Is it somehow possible that my version is somehow different than yours?

[jayson]

P.S. Is it somehow possible that my version is somehow different than yours?

yeah, you may live on a different level of the tower and yours might be written by claudia y inez bachman

[Jean]

since we're living in Multiverse, anything is possible. It depends on where you brought yours from, and how many doors it passed through.

EDITED: shit, Jayson beat me to it.

[Dud-a-chum?]

P.S. Is it somehow possible that my version is somehow different than yours?

yeah, you may live on a different level of the tower and yours might be written by claudia y inez bachman

LMAO, you never know, dude, I've ran into stranger things . . .

[Dud-a-chum?]

. . . EDITED: shit, Jayson beat me to it.

He's doing that to everyone, these days,

[Letti]

For my part I live on the 4th floor, what about you?
Just to be on the safe side.

[jayson]

sometimes i have roland-esque speed.

[Dud-a-chum?]

I don't understand why people are bothered by little mistakes like that when King has described Susannah with legs on many occasions, That to me is his most unforgivable sin.

I can't be bothered by little mistakes maybe because I am not able to notice them at all but where did King describe Susannah with legs? I am interested in it.

Well, one place that I can recall just off the top of my head is after Eddie falls at Blue Heaven. If I remember right, (and please someone with a copy of the book handy correct me if I'm wrong) Susannah was said to have "got to her feet and jumped up and down" As she was feeling the grief and denial of what had just happened. Maybe it wasn't worded exactly that way, but yeah, I'm pretty sure it's there.

Also, I can't remember any other specific moments, but King will describe Susannah as "running" from time to time as well, and doing other things that one without legs couldn't really do. I'm not saying I can remember exactly what he describes her doing but I remember catching King on this more than once in the books, so those moments must be there somewhere.

I am not a native speaker so for me it's much harder to catch such mistakes.
So should he have written "rushing" instead of running? My question might sound stupid but in Hungarian it's quite okay to say that "she was running" (however she had no legs) because in that case it means she was rushing.

(I must find that jumping part.)

Well, "running" means that someone is using their feet to rush forward, while "rushing" means to simply rush in any fashion. Hope that helps,

[Matt]

I believe there is one passage where the narrator describes Suze as "jumping to her feet" in Wolves of the Calla.

EDIT--

I believe it was when Callahan's party dropped by the first time on the trail

[Dud-a-chum?]

I believe there is one passage where the narrator describes Suze as "jumping to her feet" in Wolves of the Calla.

EDIT--

I believe it was when Callahan's party dropped by the first time on the trail

Thank you, Matt. I know there are other moments, as well, now let's find those errors! lol.

[Letti]

I don't understand why people are bothered by little mistakes like that when King has described Susannah with legs on many occasions, That to me is his most unforgivable sin.

I can't be bothered by little mistakes maybe because I am not able to notice them at all but where did King describe Susannah with legs? I am interested in it.

Well, one place that I can recall just off the top of my head is after Eddie falls at Blue Heaven. If I remember right, (and please someone with a copy of the book handy correct me if I'm wrong) Susannah was said to have "got to her feet and jumped up and down" As she was feeling the grief and denial of what had just happened. Maybe it wasn't worded exactly that way, but yeah, I'm pretty sure it's there.

Also, I can't remember any other specific moments, but King will describe Susannah as "running" from time to time as well, and doing other things that one without legs couldn't really do. I'm not saying I can remember exactly what he describes her doing but I remember catching King on this more than once in the books, so those moments must be there somewhere.

I am not a native speaker so for me it's much harder to catch such mistakes.
So should he have written "rushing" instead of running? My question might sound stupid but in Hungarian it's quite okay to say that "she was running" (however she had no legs) because in that case it means she was rushing.

(I must find that jumping part.)

Well, "running" means that someone is using their feet to rush forward, while "rushing" means to simply rush in any fashion. Hope that helps,

Thanks.
It's almost the same in Hungarian but I think it Hungarian it would be okay. I will ask some Hungarian folks about it.

[Jean]

I believe there is one passage where the narrator describes Suze as "jumping to her feet" in Wolves of the Calla.

EDIT--

I believe it was when Callahan's party dropped by the first time on the trail

I made a search, and the only "feet" I found in connection with Susannah belonged to Mia.
I wish someone would find anything definite. I've heard, a number of times, this Susannah's Feet Accusation, but have never seen the accusers actually quote anything.

[ManOfWesternesse]

We had a good thread on .net about this one at one time I think.

There are certainly references that are a bit like that. But never as explicit or as pointed as the "...got to her feet and jumped up and down..." that you give above.
I don't have the books to hand (loaned the lot to my sister), but there are references like '..stood...' or '..ran...' which might normally imply feet - but could, with a little licence, be used without too.

Personally, on a few re-reads, I do think SK may have 'forgotten' a few times.

[timtempest6]

while walking north along the western sea eddie looks to his right to see the sea or something of the sort

in 1977 it is stated by sk that mort pushed odetta some 3 or 4 years before. but she never made it to the 70's

roland thinks he will be fine if los don't fling more than 12 sneeches at a time. but he only has one gun

and thats just for starters

[LadyHitchhiker]

I love typos... are they in all the books or does it make them more valuable?

[sarah]

I found one last night while reading Song of Susannah.


At the end of page 258 Susannah is spelled Susanna

[timtempest6]

these are from thedarktowercompenduim.com (the smiles are 8s i think) sorry copy and paste

book 1

(Pg 71) - (Plume edition only) Editing error: On this page, there is a reference to Roland's father, when it really should have been his mother that he was remembering. Also, in the same context, the words "he" and "she" have been reversed as well, showing the editing error for a second time. In all other editions, this error does not appear.
(Pg 102) - When Jake entered Roland's world the first time by dying in his own world, he did not appear in the clothes he had died in. He wore blue jeans with a patch on one knee and a plain brown shirt of rough weave. Also, it appears that Jake has blonde hair, not like the black hair he is shown with in The Waste Lands and Wizard and Glass (as depicted in the artwork that is).

(Pg 111) - Here is the first mention of "the Tower".

(Pg 113) - Again, Jake has blonde hair and blue eyes here.

(Pg 119) - First mention of Aileen and Marten.

(Pg 120) - Here is the old song "Careless Love". This is the same as the song Roland remembers Susan Delgado singing in Wizard and Glass.

(Pg 123) - "Points" was a game of Croquet.

(Pg 133) - We first find out the name of Roland's mother is Gabrielle.

(Pg 134) - Here we first learn that the gunslinger's name is Roland.

(Pg 142-43) - Because later on in Wizard and Glass we learn the Good Man's name is John Farson, we can also see here that there was also a place called Farson as well. Either perhaps the place was named after the man, or the man was named after the place.

(Pg 147) - It makes one assume here that Roland's father, as we later learn who's name is Steven Deschain, was named "Roland" as well. Or perhaps it was just a different way of wording an elders name. Perhaps?

(Pg 148) - Roland's father says he thinks he knows who the Good Man is. Could he suspect John Farson, or could it really be Marten?

(Pg 149) - It says here that in some quarters, Marten was known as the Good Man.

(Pg 164) - "No you won't. Sit yourself Jake." Who's phrase had that been? Some woman Roland doesn't quite remember. Who could she be?

(Pg 167-68) - Here we learn more, at the beginning, about Susan, "lovely girl at the window." Roland remembers watching her burn to death, and later on in Wizard and Glass, we learn just exactly how this came about. However, we also see that Roland remembers differently about how he'd seen it happen. In Wizard and Glass a different memory arises, but here, Roland remembers being held back by two villagers on each side and his neck was in a huge rusty iron collar. In Wizard and Glass, Roland had not witnessed Susan's death personally, but in the pink wizard's glass, while Cuthbert and Alain held him and watched helplessly. Could it be that Roland remembers here of being held back by the two villagers that were really Cuthbert and Alain? Also that his neck was not really dog-caught in an iron collar, but because he screamed himself so hoarse that he remembered it as like a dog collar choking him? However, it should also be noted that this part was just a dream Roland was having. But the question that might arise is why was his dream different than that of the actual events that occurred in Wizard and Glass?

(Pg 175) - Roland says that Cort used to tell him that the Old Gods pissed over the desert and made mescaline; a drug otherwise known as either "the philosopher's stone" or as Jake thought of it, "LSD".

(Pg 184) - Here, the Oracle states that "Marten is no more. The man in black has eaten his soul. This you know." As the series story-line deepens in the following books, this statement might possibly negate the theory that Marten still exists and that Roland might meet him later. However, we later learn this not to be true.

(Pg 186-87) - We see that Jake has no problem using Roland's flint and steel to make a fire, but however in book III, Jake shows the inability to use it properly. The gunslinger then shows him the right way.

(Pg 193) - Here it says that from the fall of Gilead, Roland's homeland, to the time Roland catches Walter, the man in black, twelve years have passed.

(Pg 197) - Again, here it states that Marten is no more. "Yes, they had dragged him down, and there had been gunplay, and even that grape had been bitter." However, with information gleaned from the following books, it seems that Marten was somehow caught or stopped, but managed to escape or flee from Roland and his gunslingers.

(Pg 212) - Roland asks here, "What hand could have held the knife that did my father to his death?" This tells us that Roland's father was killed with a knife by an unknown person. In Wizard and Glass, we find that maybe at one point, Roland's own mother Gabrielle, may have been told to kill her husband with a special knife that would be sent to her, but the plot was foiled by Roland and the knife never reached his mother's hand. So the question arises... Who did kill Steven?

(Pg 215) - Roland has never heard of a train before and most likely that the same goes for a railroad. Here it also tells of how Roland thought of an old hermit who used an old gasoline pump as a totem god and placed the handle between his legs. Jake, later on in The Waste Lands, has an English Final Essay with this fact inserted in it, but it is unclear about how Jake or anyone else came upon that knowledge of Roland's memory. It does not say that Roland told Jake about this.

(Pg 222) - It states here that at the time of Roland's test of man-hood, he was fourteen. It had also been three years since the hanging of Hax, which would have made Roland eleven years old when Hax died.

(Pg 232-33) - Cort's predecessor, his own father Fardo, had died in the yard behind the Great Hall of a stab-wound from an apprentice who had been over-eager to win the battle with his teacher.

(Pg 241) - Before Roland's test of man-hood, his own father Steven, was the youngest ever to call for and win his own test of man-hood at the age of sixteen; two years older than his own son who then became the youngest ever.

(Pg 257) - When Roland sees the mummified remains of people in the subway station under the mountains, he talks about a gas that used to be made that could kill like that. Could this be the same gas talked about later in Wizard and Glass called DEP3?

(Pg 261) - What is "the Feast of Joesph"? Could this be what we know as "Easter"?

(Pg 287) - Walter says that he could never have sent the vision Roland witnessed, to Marten. "He would have come back drooling." Does this mean Walter was really more powerful than Marten, or was Walter not aware that Marten himself was more than he pretended to be?

(Pg 288) - Something to ponder over. Walter says to Roland; "I made your father and I broke him. I came to your mother through Marten and took her." Walter is more entwined in Roland's past than even Roland knows.

(Pg 303) - Roland awakens from his deep sleep after his palaver with Walter to find himself looking ten years older and the man in black, a skeleton himself. This aging process and time passing is very much quite like what Ralph Roberts and Lois Chasse experience in King's novel Insomnia, which of course is tied into the Dark Tower series.

[timtempest6]

book 2

(Pg 18) - In the description of the handgrips of Roland's guns, the word "ironwood" is used. This word should actually be replaced with "sandalwood", as seen in previous descriptions of his guns.
(Pg 26) - Here it says that the gunslinger ate jerky. However, in The Gunslinger on page 278, it said he ate the last of his jerky when eating with Walter, the man in black. Where did this extra jerky come from?

(Pg 27) - Roland uses the palm of his right hand to check on the jawbone in his back pocket. Therefore, it is in his right-hand back pocket. But in The Gunslinger on page 303, it said that he put the jawbone in his left back pocket, which would lead one to conclude that he would have had to use his left hand to check on it.

(Pg 33) - Editing error: If Roland was walking north on the beach of the Western Sea, how can it be correct that he saw "the sea to his right, the mountains to his left"? It would have to be the sea to his left and the mountains to his right.

(Pg 40) - Here, Roland sees a flight stewardess that is wearing "pants". He is taken aback by this because he has never seen a woman in such clothing who wasn't undressed. However, in Wizard and Glass, we meet the young Susan Delgado, whom on more than one occasion, in view of Roland, wore pants while riding her horses. Although it's obvious that Wizard and Glass comes after The Drawing of the Three, the timeline is reversed due to Roland's flashback, so that most of the events that take place in Wizard and Glass precede those of The Drawing of the Three. Simply put, as a youth, Roland has seen women in pants, but on this page in The Drawing of the Three, he says he's never seen that before.

(Pg 41) - Editing error: "Insane as it might seen." "seen" should be spelled "seem".

(Pg 46) - Editing error: It says here that Eddie was twenty-one years old, but later throughout The Drawing of the Three and the rest of The Waste Lands and Wizard and Glass, Eddie says he was born in 1964 and if he were drawn in 1987, that would make him twenty-three.

(Pg 55) - Editing error: Balazar's first name appears on this page as "Emilio". However, throughout the rest of The Drawing of the Three and The Waste Lands, his name is "Enrico".

(Pg 76) - First reference to Eddie Dean's sister, "Selina". Later on in The Waste Lands, she would be known as "Gloria".

(Pg 82) - Editing error: The red-lines of blood-poisoning should only appear in his right arm, not both arms.

(Pg 96) - Editing error: Same problem that appears on page 46. Because it was written twice like this in Eddie's first appearances, it could be construed that Eddie really is only twenty-one years old, but other parts of the story later in the series don't seem to agree.

(Pg 115) - The question has been circulating around over the years of "what happened to the cocaine that Eddie was carrying and why didn't he use it when he wanted a fix"? Well, here we read that Roland had hid the bags of "devil-dust" or cocaine into "a cleft between two rocks and covered them with handfuls of sparse saw-grass" to keep them out of harms way from the lobstrosities on the beach while he was by himself and Eddie on the other side of the door. Both Roland and Eddie seemed later to have forgotten about the cocaine and although Eddie could have asked Roland about it, cocaine was not the drug Eddie could use to fulfill his "need"... it was heroin that Eddie "needed".

(Pg 139) - In the alphabet that Roland was taught, there was no "H" because when in Eddie's world, he could not read the word "THE". He recognized the other two letters but could not make sense of the "H". He said he'd never seen that word before. Perhaps there is an "H" in his alphabet, but it had looked or been designed differently?

(Pg 192) - Editing error: In the fourth paragraph the second word "man" should be spelled "main".

(Pg 197) - Editing error: Same error that occurred on page 82 about the red-lines of blood-poisoning traveling up both arms is incorrect. It is only his right arm that is infected.

(Pg 205) - Editing error: Again, same error as on page 33. At the top it continues, "it could only be obtained by looking left, to the east." It would have to be the word "right", not "left" to be correct.

(Pg 214) - The mention of the name "Poppa Doc" is here. It is also the same name of the Bean Man in The Gunslinger.

(Pg 215) - February 1964 was the time of Odetta/Detta's drawing.

(Pg 227) - At age twenty-three, Detta couldn't be walking along a store counter because she had lost her legs before that time. Also, Odetta's father died in '62, leaving her his fortune on her twenty-fifth birthday (which was also in 1962).

(Pg 233) - Here Eddie mentions the movie based on King's novel The Shining.

(Pg 234) - Editing error: Here Eddie thinks about the 60's movie "In the Heat of the Night", but the actors names are wrong. Listed are "Sidney Steiger" and "Rod Poitier", when in fact the correct names should be "Sidney Poitier" and "Rod Steiger".

(Pg 245) - In George's nightmare, the correct version of what he saw should have been an eyeball on a Samsonite suitcase like in the description previous to this part, not an eyeball on a teddy bear.

(Pg 247 & 252) - Editing error: "Estavez", as in Julio Estavez, should be spelled "Estevez" as seen on the previous page of 244.

(Pg 260) - Again, Eddie mentions the movie based on King's novel The Shining.

(Pg 262) - Here is the first reference to The Wizard of Oz which would play a larger role later on in Wizard and Glass.

(Pg 265) - Here we learn a little bit about Cuthbert's death... and that Roland cried over his lifeless corpse.

(Pg 269) - Here Eddie actually states that he is twenty-three years old and was born in 1964. He also confirms he was taken or drawn from his when of 1987.

(Pg 316) - It states properly here that the red-lines of blood-poisoning are traveling up the right arm, not both arms like on page's 82 and 197.

(Pg 318) - Editing error: "Detta began rubbing her temples with her fingers." How could she if her arms were tied to her wheelchair's arm rests?

(Pg 370) - Editing error: If Odetta had been five years old when Jack Mort dropped the brick on her and she had been born in 1937, how could Jack own a mid 50's auto when said event must have taken place in the early 1940's? Upon further research of the continuing story-line and information gathered therein, an editing error must have been made on this page.

(Pg 383) - Here, it tells of Detta's first time looking through the doorway of "The Pusher" and sees the scene where Roland is in Jack Mort's body and is in Katz's Drug Store. However, previously on page's 372-73, while in Jack's body but in Jack's office, Roland catches a quick glimpse of Detta's shadow beside the doorway. This might constitute an error in the time-line.

(Pg 391) - Editing error: In the sentence "-an Eddie Dean or Odetta Walker, for instance-", there is an error. "Odetta Walker" should be "Odetta Holmes".

(Pg 402) - Editing error: Here it is stated that Carl Delevan, nine years later after the incident with Roland/Jack, had a heart attack while watching the movie The Terminator. This movie appeared in 1984, making the year of Roland's time in Jack Mort, 1975. However, this can not be correct because it is stated throughout The Waste Lands that Roland entered Jack's body in the same year Jack pushed Jake Chambers, which was 1977.

2nd Editing error: "He remembered because Blue-Suit had had that some fucking habit." The word "some" should be spelled "same".

(Pg 403) - Editing error: The name "Arnold Clements" is mistakenly substituted for the character's real name, which was "Justin Clements" as seen on previous page 401.

(Pg 410) - We learn of Alain's demise by the guns of Roland and Cuthbert here.

(Pg 418-19) - Here we meet three characters from King's book The Eyes of the Dragon. These three are none other than Flagg, Thomas and Dennis. This unmistakably ties-in The Dark Tower series to The Eyes of the Dragon. Also, we will get to meet Flagg later on in Wizard and Glass. It also states here that Roland believes he might meet Marten again before Roland reaches the Tower... or possibly at it. This signifies that Marten is not dead and did successfully escape Roland after the fall of Gilead.

(Pg 427) - Roland confirms again the notion that not all the letters in the alphabet of the world Eddie and Odetta come from are in his own alphabet. There are too many actually.

(Pg 430) - This is strange. O'Mearah picks up the .357 Magnum and "stuffed it in his belt" because "it wouldn't fit in his holster." How could it fit in his holster when he didn't have one? Roland took both O'Mearah and Delevan's belt, gun and holster. Why would O'Mearah try to fit it in there when he didn't have one?

(Pg 436) - Here is another strange part. O'Mearah yells "Hold it!" to Roland/Jack and points the .357 Magnum at him and prepares to shoot. Even if he had managed to beat Roland to the draw, nothing would have happened. The Magnum didn't have any bullets. Roland emptied the Magnum before he left the gun shop and put the bullets in his pants pocket. Wouldn't O'Mearah have been surprised to know that!

(Pg 439-40) - Editing error: Odetta Holmes had her legs cut off in 1959. When Roland entered Jack Mort, he was in the same year that Jack would have pushed Jake Chambers in, which was actually 1977. On this page it says "...where that fabled A-train had cut off the legs of a woman named Odetta Holmes some three years before." The part of "three years before" can not be correct if the time span between 1959 and 1977 remains constant. It should have said "eighteen years before".

(Pg 442 & 444) - Editing error: On both these pages a police officer is named "Wheaton" (as in "Norris Wheaton"), but on the previous pages of 440-41, he is named "Norris Weaver".