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Summary: Very mediocre
Review: I still love Roland and Jake, but Eddie and Susannah are annoying, stereotypical and shallow. It's like- Susannah is black, a woman AND disabled, so of course she's perfect, oh, and she and Eddie love one another so they must be deep, sensitive people. Also, King's influences were a little too blatant- Eliot's Wasteland was almost pushed onto the reader, and the riddle game was a Tolkien copy.
And the cliffhanger? How do you THINK it's going to be resolved? Is anyone really worried that the first sentence of the next book is going to be, "Blaine the mono would have smiled, had he a mouth, as he correctly answered the last riddle, seconds before hurling Roland and his party to their deaths. The end."
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Summary: Mr. King has done it again!
Review: I think I need to get the next book, this was hard to put down! He brings you into the world of The Gunslinger, and wont let you leave until you finish the book! This is a must have for your personal library! It gets your heart pounding! I also recommend
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Summary: Far from a "Waste"
Review: Stephen King hits his stride in "The Waste Lands," the third volume of his epic dark fantasy Dark Tower series. Now that the quest is underway, King's world of cyborg bears, insane trains and sex-addict demons coalesces into a tight, engrossing story.Newlyweds Susannah (formerly Odetta/Detta) and Eddie Dean are rapidly becoming expert gunslingers, even proving themselves as Susannah guns down cyborg bear Shardik, and Eddie takes out robots. But Roland is having problems. Since he saved the life of eleven-year-old Jake in the previous book, he remembers two realities -- one where he saved Jake, and one where he let him die. Now that paradox is slowly driving him insane -- and worse, in his own world, Jake is also going mad. They find a doorway to Jake's world, but it's guarded by a malevolent demon. Susannah manages to trap the demon (by having sex with it) as Eddie barely manages to draw Jake into Mid-World. Now they are a "ka-tet," or a group brought together by destiny. But the ka-tet has barely formed before it's threatened, by a mysterious figure that is following them at a distance -- and an insane train that traps them on its suicide run.... In "The Gunslinger" and "Drawing of the Three," King spent his time establishing the main quest and the lead characters. Now he's got those in the bag, and the story revs up as Roland and Co. set off to find the Dark Tower rather than just talking about it. It feels like the series had finally hit its stride. The world that has "moved on" is not a nice place -- just about everything is dangerous, bleak or at least rough-edged. But King manages to keep the weirder elements -- like the cyborg animals or the riddling train -- from seeming silly. His writing is not usually good in the technical sense, but it excels at having atmosphere and lots of gruesome slam-bang action. Roland remains the rough cowboy with a hidden heart of gold and a tragic past. His bond with lonely Jake is a particularly touching detail. Eddie becomes a bit annoying at times with all his wisecracking, but he has a past almost as hard as Roland's. Susannah is perhaps the most interesting of all -- two opposing personalities merged into one. And don't forget Oy the faithful billybumbler, a sort of dog-like creature. Ending on a pulse-pounding cliffhanger, "The Waste Lands" is a smooth and thoroughly engaging dark fantasy. The pinnacle of the Dark Tower series so far.
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