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Summary: King's at his worst
Review: I could barely even make it through this book, it was so boring. It just carries on and on. This was by far the worst of the dark tower series so far. I have to say I did enjoy The Gunslinger and The Waste Lands very much. If you want to read a good book like The Waste Lands, then your going to have to make it through this-GOOD LUCK!
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Summary: The best in the series!!!
Review: This is book is really the best. I loved it. this is trully Stephen King's masterpiece. Roland comes to New York to draw a Heroin junkie, a schizophrenic crippled lady and death (I won't ruin it for you and explain...). Everyone, even people who are not King's fans, will love this!
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Summary: The mystical world is so close to our own, it's breathtaking
Review: MORE! Give us more! This book will leave you drooling for more on the tale of the journey of the gunslinger!
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Summary: The best book yet in the best series yet
Review: Yes, the length of this book was a dissapointment- it needed to be much longer! Every reader as enthralled in this series as I am, drank every word of this book. It helped bring the readers closer to Roland, his past, and his tragic pain (or pains as we find out). I felt that it wasn't necessary for King to progress Roland and freinds on their journey. I want this series to last as long as possible and anxiously await the coming of the next book (which hopefully comes out in less that five years). And that brings me to my only complaint: now I have go read the first three books in the series over because it took so long for this one to come out.
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Summary: Comment on "The Drawing of the Three part II
Review: I like to write... I wrote this Book... I had fun when i wrote this book... I have to go and write some more now... Bye :)
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Summary: -****-
Review: You can't find a better mix of fantasy and horror than the Dark Tower series. This book flawlessly continues the plot from the first book, The Gunslinger, where it picks up a couple of hours after Roland has "killed" Walter, the man in black. Roland, suffering from a life-threating bite (poisonous) from the lobstrosiities, has to bring a coccaine junkie, a schizophrenic woman, and a relentless killer into his world and use their help to reach the tower. In order to do this, he has to, in effect, take over them by commanding what to do through their minds. Occasionally, he has to physically transport himself to their world. Iwon't say anything else; I've probably ruined the surprise for you already. Phil Hale's drawings are a nice touch
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Summary: Loosely drawn
Review: Stephen King's Dark Tower series has become a modern classic, with its gritty imagination and mix of fantasy and horror. "The Drawing of the Three" is an expansive follow-up to "The Gunslinger," but it's a bit slow and too devoted to setting up the main quest of the series.Roland of Gilead wakes up on a beach, surrounded by carnivorous lobster creatures that manage to bite off fingers and part of his foot. Sick and possibly dying, he stumbles away and collapses. But he still has to find and "draw" two people to assist him in his quest for the Dark Tower. He finds a door that leads him into our world, and inside the head of Eddie Dean, a young junkie/drug smuggler. Eddie reluctantly allows Roland's voice to guide him, as his beloved brother is murdered and his drug deal self-destructs. As Eddie goes cold turkey, Roland starts to pursue the second person: Odetta Holmes, a beautiful African-American civil-rights activist, who lost her legs when someone pushed her off a train platform. She is also schizophrenic -- she has a second personality, the foul-mouthed, psychotic Detta. Now Roland and Eddie are stuck with a woman who can turn into a malevolent killer at any moment. And now Roland pursues Jack Mort -- and runs into a familiar face from his past. "The Drawing of the Three" is almost very good, but not quite. Unlike "The Gunslinger," this is pretty obviously a bridge between the first and third books, setting up the scene for the rest of the series. So it's rather awkward at times, as King tries to write a story around his formative characters. In that, he does a pretty good job. King's writing is not technically very good, but it has an evocative slam-bang quality -- the lobstrosities, the doors, the airplane, the blistering postapocalyptic world that Roland lives in. The descriptions comes alive with vibrant intensity. But he doesn't seem to be at ease with the constant, sprawling flashbacks to Eddie and Odetta/Detta's past lives, which add a weirdly fragmented quality to the book. It's easy to lose track of the action. Enigmatic gunslinger Roland doesn't get much fleshing out in this book -- it's all about Eddie and Odetta/Detta. King brings their struggles and feelings up in all their beauty and ugliness, showing Eddie's love for the brother who led him astray. Odetta/Detta is particularly interesting: One personality is a cultured, refined heiress, and the other is a murderous, racist psycho. King stumbles over his fragmented narrative at times, but "Drawing of the Three" is a good follow-up to "The Gunslinger" and sets the stage for the remainder of the Dark Tower series.
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Summary: Great stuff
Review: Great continuation of Roland`s quest and, more imortantly, great introduction to other major characters! Ya`ll start lovin` Edie Dean right from this book, fellas!
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Summary: Totally Spellbinding! A Terrific Tale!
Review: Roland Deschain of Gilead, The Last Gunslinger, awakens in the middle of the night on the shore of Mid-World's Western Sea to find that he is being attacked by a horde of "lobstrosities," crawling, carnivorous creatures which resemble large, deadly lobsters. He finally escapes their clutches, and discovers himself badly wounded, having lost the first two fingers of his right hand to the bottom crawlers. He has been poisoned by the lobstrosities' venom and will become extremely sick - at risk of dying. Thus opens Volume Two of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series, "The Drawing Of The Three." It is urgent that Roland acquire penicillin in order to remedy his illness and continue his quest for The Dark Tower, the complete nexus of time and space. He has dedicated himself to putting right whatever is wrong with his world, which has "moved on," decayed.
Crippled, dehydrated, and dying from blood poisoning, Roland encounters a door, standing alone and freely on the beach. The door opens only to Roland's touch, and it leads to our world, Earth, New York City, sometime in the 1980's. He must draw three people from Earth, (NYC), to accompany him to the Tower. Defiant Eddie Dean, "The Prisoner," is the first of the three, and he needs to act fast to help Roland get medication before he dies.
Eddie's selection was foretold by the man in black when he read the cards for Roland at the end of Book One. Dean is a junkie, a heroin addict and smart - but obviously not smart enough. He's also a cocaine mule for drug kingpin Enrico Balazar. Roland walks through the door on the beach and from the moment he crosses the threshold, he shares Eddie's mind and body - sees the world through Eddie's eyes. Eddie finds himself "possessed" by the Gunslinger while on a plane headed for JFK. From the TWA flight to their detention by Customs for carrying a load of "coke," to a shoot-out with Balazar and friends, with an eventual stop for penicillin, Eddie's and Roland's quality time together is one harrowing adventure after another, to say the very least. The two finally make it back to the Western Sea in "the other world," with medicine. Roland quickly learns the rules of passing through portals, the language and slang of NYC, and begins to acclimate to the mystical principles of this new Mid-World
A second door is discovered and Roland crosses the threshold into NYC in the early 1960's, and looks at the strange landscape through the eyes of "The Lady Of The Shadows' - not one, but two women in one body. Odetta Holmes is a young, beautiful civil rights activist who is wheelchair-bound. Detta Walker is a hate-filled, crazed, sly woman who inhabits the schizophrenic Odetta's mind. When these two are pulled into Roland's world serious problems arise.
Jack Mort, "The Pusher," is Death, ("but not for Roland."). He is also the evil, serial killer behind the third door. He literally pushes people to their deaths. Amongst his heinous crimes, Mort has killed and maimed two people close to Roland. He is also at the heart of a mind boggling mystery - a paradox, which confounds The Gunslinger. Their time together in New York (1970's), is the wildest and woolliest yet. King does great work in this episode. Mort serves his purpose and receives his just reward. The author uses the trips to Earth and the characters he encounters there to deal with the earthly issues of racism, feminism, mental illness, the trials of adolescence, etc..
Eddie and Odetta/Detta, who morphs into Susannah Dean, along with Roland, make three companions - gunslingers all. The Gunslinger really whips them into shape. For the first time in many years Roland of Gilead is no longer alone on his quest. The new characters, their individual histories, and their interactions with each other are what is so fascinating about this novel. These folks really spring to life on the pages with so much energy. The narrative clips along at a good pace with a storyline filled with adventures, which cause one to suspend belief at times. King's imagery is absolutely stunning - very easy to visualize. The gunslinger's world is filled with elements of the fantastic, the magical, some sci-fi, a bit of horror, and the mundane as well. The plot really fleshes out in "The Drawing of the Three." It is a book very difficult to put down - a real winner!!
JANA
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Summary: The best of the series
Review: This is the best of the series. Wish other vol would be like this.
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