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Review: does anyone know if you have to read these books in order?
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Summary: Awesome!
Review: I am a immense fan of Stephen King. It seems no writer can match up to him. The Dark Tower series proofs that. They just keep getting better...
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Summary: The Dark Tower Series grows with twisted King stroy telling
Review: This is a differnt book. It starts out with magnificent discription telling of sea creatures attacking the GunSlinger, as he escapes, gravely wounded, he dicovers a portal to another world in another time. We are introduced the three characters -The Prisoner, a story that is wild and nerve racking. It is centered around a great character, Eddie. The next chapter -the Lady of Sadows, is truely disturbing and difficult to read, but bear through it is worth it as the final chapter -The Pusher, makes -The Lady of Shadows very cool. It is like eduring through a difficult race to feel incredible at its completion because the prize is unbelievable. The three storys are subversively intertwined in much deaper detail that what King reveals to the reader, I was blown away at the end and instantly began the Waste Land -Dark Tower 3. An increadible story.
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Summary: An Amazing Novel
Review: Stephen King has created a world where I can go and release my imagination. I can see Roland waking on the beach near the endless ocean, I can see Roland trudging up the beach, weakening with each step, and I can see Eddie being drug by Detta below the merciless high tide line. What makes the Dark Tower Series so unlike King's other work? Instead of writing about situations in our own world, King has created his own, with many parallels and even doorways to our own. Roland is like a knight with guns, ever pursuing his quest. Eddie and Odetta are people he brings to his world from our world: future gunslingers.What happens. Roland draws three people from our world to his own. He is infected by a creature who bites off three of he fingers. When he reaches the first door, he is about to die from the poisen. He rescues Eddie and brings him to his world with enough medicine to fight the infection. From the second door he draws Odetta/Detta. The third door is the most interesting for the connections between Mort and Odetta are seen. From this door he brings more medicine, bullets, and a future gunslinger. An amazing novel, in which Stephen King's ability to intertwine details is showcased.
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Summary: Amazing continuation...
Review: The Gunslinger was a nice beginning, raw and a little uneven, but The Drawling of Three more than compensated. I won't bother recapping the book, because others have and it would give too much away, but I will tell you that I read this book in a day and a half. I couldn't put it down. It was like the down slope of a roller coaster, once it took off there was no stopping it! The characters truly come alive and the addition of the supporting cast really begins to add a much needed rich texture the story. the reader will not know where or when this saga will end, but one this is for sure, when you read this installment you will be hooked. I enjoyed the first book, The Gunslinger, but this book has totally and completely hooked me for good. No matter how many books King writes in this legacy I will read them.
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Summary: excellent
Review: after the introduction into Roland's world in the Gunslinger, we get to meet three new characters with their own subplots, and boy what great writing is involved. Stephen King shows his mastery of the written word in this Gunslinger series. he also shows his great ability to keep us riveted throughout. definitely one of the best of King's works.
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Summary: This one is also good
Review: As the book begins Roland is lying bleeding and broken on the beech next to the sea. For some reason he just happened to be lined up perpendicular to the "beam", that is the way the Dark Tower. He has many adventures down these doors mainly revolving about a Junike\drug smuggler named Eddie and a women named Odetta who has multiple personalites. Unless you read this book you will not understand what goes on in the later books. I recommend this one before The Waste Lands.
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Summary: Exceptional
Review: In The Drawing of the Three, Roland is attacked by marvelous, poisonous "lobstrosities" and enters our world for help. He takes heroin addict Eddie Dean from 1987 New York and Odetta Holmes from 1964 New York as his team. In a powerful time-tripping scene, Roland confronts Jack Mort and actually changes Jake's Earth history, which has heady implications for Roland's world. The Drawing of the Three is different again from The Gunslinger. What really got to me was the fact that Jack and Odetta were so intimately joined without ever knowing it, and that Roland, in Mort's body, bought bullets from someone who worked with Balazar, Eddie's drug czar. All the coincidences that weren't coincidences, the terror of the lobstrosities (not to mention Detta Walker), the disturbing mind of Jack Mort, and the action-packed shootout at Balazar's. These combine effortlessly to join a remarkable novel that is one of King's best. The joy when Eddie finally overcame his physical addiction, or when Detta/Odetta joined finally, or the dark happiness when Jack Mort finally kicked the bucket... Just read it!
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Summary: I HATED IT.... then I loved it. ---KA!
Review: The first time I read the Gunslinger I loved it...then I read the Drawing of the Three...HATED IT! I couldn't even finish it. My favorite character was messed up, King was going into "our world" and out of the world of the Gunslinger. I hated that. I wanted him to stay in that world...boy was I surprised. I re-read the gunslinger series...then I FORCED my self to get through this book. Was I ever glad I did. The end of this book and the next two books are so awesome I think about them sometimes at night when my thoughts are my own.
KA!
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Summary: Second Book in a Wonderful Series
Review: In the Dark Tower Series, I'd recommend reading this book FIRST, and the first book Last. In the mid 80's when THE GUNSLINGER was released to the general public, I read it because, perhaps like you, I read everything King writes. But I didn't get it. I tried to read book 2, but couldn't get through it. In November 2001 a friend brow beat me and said, "You gotta read these books." I did. I am so glad. But, if you haven't stated yet, I'd recommend reading The DRAWING OF THE THREE first, The WasteLand second, Black House (not part of this series) third, and the best book of them all Wizard and Glass fourth. Get all them behind you and then for background read The Gunslinger. I think it makes more sense this way. If you read King much you know Flagg is everywhere, but I never really drew the other connections between Flagg and Walter and The Crimson King, and Jack's flip universe in The Talisman, and the Low Men in Hearts in Atlantis, and ... you get the idea. Steve's got a theme going here, get on board. It's worth the plunge.
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