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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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Summary: Love all these books
Review: I love this series, and I wish he'd write more. This is 2nd one in the series and it makes you wish for more. Memorable.
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Summary: More Dark Tower brilliance!
Review: Blaine is a pain, and that is the truth... Another installment in this captivating and addictive series.
This book has more of Roland, Eddie, Susannah, and Jake, more suspense, more gorgeously mystical storyline...and the coolest, deadliest intelligent mass transit in all the worlds! These books are King's giant epic, his life's great opus, and they're so darn good I keep reading them over and over while waiting for the next one! Go get this book!
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Summary: Strange and Wondrous Realms
Review: Book III of the Dark Tower series continues the quest defined in the first book (The Gunslinger) with the traveling companions introduced in the second book (The Drawing of the Three). This book is basically a group of adventure episodes: an encounter with a 70 foot high bio-mechanical bear (Shardik), relic of a past age, a strange fight with a demon, a visit to a dying suburban village, an abduction and running battle in a ghost town city, and finally a fantastic trip on a suicidal mono-rail train. Each episode provides a little more insight into Roland's fantastical world, both past and present. By the end of this book, a fairly coherent picture of this world emerges, from its obvious high technology past, to its current sadly deteriorated state, to some of the rationale behind why certain things work the way they do in this world. The book is very action oriented; there is very little reflection on grander philosophical themes here, and continuing character development of the main characters is fairly minimal. There is a nice variant on the old time-travel paradox. In The Gunslinger, the boy Jake is sacrificed to Roland's determination to catch the 'man in black'. In this story, we find Jake alive and well and still living in (our) New York, due to an action by Roland in The Drawing of the Three that caused the previous history to never occur. But both Roland and Jake have memories of the 'other' past, and this duality is slowly driving both to the edge of insanity. The resolution of this problem requires that Jake be brought back to Roland's world, and how this is accomplished forms the major portion of one of the 'episodes'. At various points throughout this book, King makes allusions to other famous science-fiction and fantasy authors and their creations (and some of his own), from Richard Adams (Shardik and Watership Down) to Isaac Asimov's 'positronic' brains of his robot stories, to J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit with its riddling games. For those who have read these works, these allusions provide an enhanced view of this world and how it works, but I am not sure how well some of this plays with readers who haven't read these other works. Overall, this book is a page-turner, and does a good job of holding the reader's interest in the fate of the major characters and the overall resolution of the quest. The ending of this book is a cliff-hanger, like the movie serials of old, and for this reason I don't recommend you start this book unless you have a copy of book IV, Wizard & Glass, handy, as you will definitely want to immediately find out the resolution to the end situation here.
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