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Summary: The series just keeps on getting better.
Review: I loved this book. It is better than the first two and the first two were great. They are a real marvelle of story telling and allegory. I love the journey aspect of the story. The will to risk all to get to place, in hope of better answers. The readers are taken on this journey as much as the characters are. And the characters are taken on a fast pace, break neck ride. I am going to start reading #4 imediately as I must know what happens. I just hope that King gets the rest of the books out soon, but I also don't want him to rush it. Great art takes time to develop and this is great art. It is by far my favorite of King's works as his characters are funny, twisted, and inteligent. They all play off each other very well, and we learn about them through how they treat each other. Roland is developing into a solid leader who now is developing interests outside the dark tower in Jake, Eddie, Susannah-his posse. And they all bring something to the story. This book made me think. And then it twisted my thoughts intop a fury of paradoxes that turn inside out. Trippy stuff. Read this book!!!
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Summary: An amazing novel
Review: Book Three of the Dark Tower Series continues where the second book left off, more than just the plot. Roland's mythical world continues to grow and become real. King develops his characters, giving them more depth and reality. What really seperates this work from other fantasy series that I have read, is the direct connections between our world and Rolands. This series is no longer out of reach, there are people from our world there. Additionally, King shows the pains and results of a world that has moved on. My favorite parts of the novel concern Jake; both his coming to Roland's world and his chase in Lud.What happens. Susan begins the novel by shooting one of the twelve guardians. Roland then finds the path of the beam and follows it two Lud. Before they reach it, Jake and Roland begin going insane. Since Mort died before he pushed Jake, Jake was never killed, and never went to Roland's world, but he did. Jake is brought into Roland's world and the problem is gone. Jake is kidnapped on the bridge leading to Lud, Roland finds him. Susan and Eddie find Blaine. Blaine is train they must travel on past the wastelands, but he is a suicidal train. The book ends with the a contest for their lives. A riddling contest. King's novels are fast paced and do not waste time on pointless details.
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Summary: Wonderful installment, but I wanted more
Review: I should preface this by saying that I gave the Gunslinger 4 stars and the Drawling of Three 5 stars, and I truly love the series. I have read the first 3 books in 5 days. I am glad that I didn't read them when they came out because I just started the fourth one and I am already sad that there isn't another one (yet) that I can just run out and buy.
That being said, and that I will not recap the story just give you my opinion, I loved this book but I felt a bit unsatisfied. The book definitely moved very quick, and had lots of action, but for me it moved too quickly. Like King would be punished if the paperback version went over 600 pages. I would have liked it if he stayed in the two towns, especially Lud, for a longer period of time. It took 500 pages to get to Lud and less that fifty to get out, not including the train part. For me this was not enough, and I would have appreciated some time in those towns. Again, to me, I feel like since King pumps out so many books that this one got short shrift. What was written was excellent and I enjoyed myself thoroughly, but I didn't feel the way I felt at the end of The Drawling of Three where I NEEDED to continue, I still want to, but it is not as complete a feeling. On the plus side, Jake coming back was just what the story needed and his character is really a breath of fresh air to the story, and without him this installment would not be nearly as exciting or rich in its delivery. The action was rushed but well presented and made for some good reading. Some more time was deserved on Roland's attempts to find Jake in Lud, that part felt woefully incomplete, but other than that it was a good action story.
All an all this is a very good series, and I am having a great reading experience, but this book just needed some more to it and I would have been much more satisfied.
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Summary: excellent
Review: Stephen King keeps up the action and thickens the plot in this series that (it seems) he just cant finish. i hope he does, but it's not looking pretty for us Gunslinger fans.
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Summary: The best in book with the name "Dark Tower"
Review: At begining of this book hard as steel Roland is going crazy. Eventually he finds the source of his troubles(the boy Jake). Once the problem has been solved, the 5 companions, Jake, Roland, Eddie, Sussanna and Oy(a group mascot) go in search of the tower. The books begin to heat up Roland and his friends do battle with many different people and encounter old friends and new allies. This also find a very odd plane south of the city of Lud. This book is a must for any King fan.
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Summary: Third in the series... but not the last.
Review: In The Waste Lands, Roland and company get ensnared in a civil war in the urban waste of Lud, acquire a delightful talking pet named Oy the Bumbler, and find themselves captives of a psychotic train called Blaine the Mono. The plot is complex, yet weirdly logical. But take warning: this series is addictive, and you may need to also buy book 4, Wizard and Glass. Otherwise, you won't know what happened when Blaine went insane with Roland's gang onboard. The Wastelands begins a few months after the end of The Drawing of the Three. Both Eddie and the newly merged Suzannah are learning gunslinging abilities, and both are learning not only to escape their pasts but use them to their advantage. Eddie has taken up an old childhood hobby, whittling, and they are about to resume their quest for the Tower. However, one thing greatly impairs their progress - the fact that Roland the gunslinger is losing his mind... No plot-spoilers here ... just buy the book and read it! You'll not regret it.
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Summary: Fun Fun fun!
Review: This book has the most action of all the books and is super fun! Nothing like mixing together of old west stuff, fantasy stuff and our world. It is greatness.
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Summary: What more can be said?
Review: What more can I say that hasn't already been said? The Waste Lands and the whole Dark Tower series in general are simply awesome books. They're the kind of books that you hate to finish because you fear you might never read anything as breathtaking (then you read the next book in the series and your fears are forgotten).
This story picks up right where The Drawing of the Three left off and takes our crew on a journey unlike any other. Both the situations they find themselves in, and the characters they meet along the way are very unique and could only come from the genius of one man.I can't say anything bad about this book or the series in general. If you haven't read it yet then you better get started......trust me, you'll be glad you did.
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Summary: Very fast paced and very cool
Review: of the three Dark Tower novels that i have read so far the wastelands has by far been the most enjoyable novel. This is not to say that i didn't enjoy the other two immensely, but that their pace of action was a bit slower. in this volume we meet up with Roland, Eddie, and Susannah a few months after Odetta and Detta became one. Roland is busy trying to show the two how to become gunslingers, and judging by how easily susannah blew awy the bits of rock, it seems that roland is doing a bang up job. Things start to go bad however when a massive 70 foot tall bear with a satellite in the middle of his head comes from deep in the woods and attacks Eddie. Luckily for Eddie, Susannah and Roland come to the scene and Susannah blows away the bear by shooting the satellite dish on his head. They examine the bear and find out that he is a cyborg. Roland calls him one of the 12 guardians and if they follow the path from which he came they would find a portal. Roland does not know what the portal is for, but he knows that the dirtection from the portal is within a Beam and at the other side of the beam is another portal, but in middle of the two portals is the black tower. Finally the quest for the tower really begins. Roland, however, is slowly falling apart because of a paradox he created in the previous book. when he killed Jack Mort he killed Jake's killer, but since Mort is dead Jake never died, but Roland still remembers him dieing, but another voice in his head says that Jake did not die.King weaves a fascinating tale of friendship, horror, cruelty, and the Tick Tock Man. Another great book by stephen king. Enjoy it.
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Summary: Moving Right Along....
Review: I devoured this book in like a day when I finally got my hands on it. Stephen King's Dark Tower series is really a jewel - I love it, I love the characters, I love the premise, it's all great. First of all, Roland the Gunslinger has to be one of my favorites of all time. The Gunslinger(#1)is exceptionally original. The Drawing of The Three takes a little getting used to, but once you get sucked in, there's no turning back! Eddie Dean is unfailingly funny, making me crack up at otherwise utterly melodramatic times(not that I don't LOVE that melodrama...) Odetta/Detta is a little weird at first, but you get to love her. Jake is great, too, especially in the Wastelands. The book opens with Roland and his two friends recuperating in a Mid-World forest. Right from the beginning, there's nothing but action. Roland's world becomes more and more intriguing - and then come some long awaited glimpses of the boy Jake. The ensuing journey reveals so much about Rolands world...It's really well-done, I think, and entertaining. I had two problems with this book, however. First, the ending. I won't give it away to those who have yet to discover it, but really, who does Stephen King think he is, ending it there? Grumble, grumble. My second problem, which really matures after Wizard and Glass(#4), is how many more? I see no end in sight. Nothing bothers me more than a string of books that are wonderful, but end in these terrible cliffhangers and then I have to wait five years for the sequel. Puts me in mind of the noted fantasy author Robert Jordan, but I think the Dark Tower is better than his books anyway, just so long as there aren't 12! All in all, The Wastelands is another great journey with Roland and the gang. Read it! Be sure to read the other two first, though...
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