This book is more a prologue to book seven of The Dark Tower than it is it's own story. One major plot point is almost wrapped up, but really the whole thing just kicks a few cans down the road right to several cliffhangers. That doesn't mean the book is bad, but it can't stand alone like all the others. They all have plots that start and finish while simultaneously moving bigger stories along. This one is a continuation of things that have been set up, but they don't get wrapped up; you'll have to wait for the final installment. And though we don't reach any destinations in this one, I still enjoyed reading it. Just treat it like the opening (albeit a lengthy one) for book seven instead of it's own book, and you'll be fine. 
 The audiobook read by George Guidall is great and gets my seal of approval which I'm sure thrills him to no end. 
 Oh, and one other thing. This is the book with Reverend Earl Harrigan of the church of the Holy God-Bomb, do it please ya? That always brings to mind this little ditty. It also brings to mind this one. And the end of this offensive one. I wonder if there's anything out there that doesn't remind me of some song or show or story or something else? 
 Original review: 8/12/10 
 Ah, Discordia. This book focuses primarily on the birth of Mordred who ends up being an anticlimactic character, but that part's not until the next book. (view spoiler)[He is born in the last sentence of the book (not counting the epilogue) (hide spoiler)]. It also focuses on protecting a rose, and the real world. A minor twist I loved in it was them unwittingly setting the stage for (view spoiler)["black 13" to be destroyed (which they would have been more than happy to do willingly had they known how to accomplish it) by storing it in a three year coin rental locker in the World Trade Center in June of 1999, ensuring that it will be out of the way, and not causing too much mischief at least until June of 2002. Of course 110 stories crashing down on top of a glass ball could take care of it (hide spoiler)], and we're led to believe that it does the trick, for it is never mentioned again. 
 Anyway, we meet Stephen King in this book, and Roland doesn't really like him all that much, though we might not find that out until book seven. Jack Andolini resurfaces in a way that makes sense, and I'm pleased to see him. There's a great shoot-out, and the stage is set for seeing that things are put to rights in the real world. 
 This book is definitely not any kind of story in and of itself. Starting with this one will lead to mass confusion because all the main plots in this book are continuations of sub-plots in the last one, and make references to things that happened as far back as the very first book.