The Waste Lands

Roland, Eddie and Susannah find one of the Beams that hold up the Tower and start following it. Roland is losing his mind: he remembers letting Jake die and also crossing the desert alone. It's a paradox, since saving Jake from Jack Mort changed the past. In 1977 New York, Jake suffers the same split. Eddie carves a key, Jake finds a rose in a vacant lot and steps through a door in a haunted house on Dutch Hill. The group reunites and gains Oy, a talking billy-bumbler. In the city of Lud, Jake is kidnapped and rescued. They escape aboard Blaine the Mono, an insane AI that plans to crash itself. Roland proposes a riddle contest. The book ends in the middle of it.

1. ChangeNo Eddie or Susannah

   In the book, Jake joins a group that already has Roland, Eddie and Susannah. The movie drops both and keeps only Roland and Jake; Arcel saved Eddie and Susannah for a sequel.

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2. ChangeThe Dutch Hill house

   In the book, Jake crosses into Roland's world through a door in a haunted house on Dutch Hill, New York. The movie keeps the idea of a New York house as the boy's portal.

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3. ChangeA paradox, not the shine

   In the book, Jake's mind splits because of a paradox: he remembers a death that never happened. In the movie, his visions come from the shine, the gift that makes Walter hunt him.

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4. ChangeNo Oy, no Lud, no Blaine

   Oy the billy-bumbler, the city of Lud and Blaine the Mono, with the riddle contest that ends the book, don't appear in the movie.

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