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Title: The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, Book 3) by Stephen King ISBN: 0-670-03256-5 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 23 June, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.69 (109 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the most real, richly filled adventure stories ever.
Comment: Of all the many Stephen King books, his Dark Tower epic is the what truly marks his genious. Together the Dark Tower series is the most richly filled adventure since Lord of the Rings, with some of the most real, living, breathing characters King has ever brought to life. Alone the Dark Tower II: the Drawing of the Three may be the best in the series so far. It remains one of the most action-packed and interesting adventures ever written. The story has such history and depth, and the characters are so life-like it's easy to forget it's a work of fiction. The story is inexcapable, unforgettable. A world all it's own that pulls you in and never ever let's go. Once you read this book you will never be the same. All you read will remind you of this world, and you will find peices of it in almost every book you've read and loved by Stephen King. Most of all you will be like the rest of us waiting tirelessly for the rest of the story to be written, and the mystery of the Dark Tower to be solved. Nothing you have ever read will prepare you for such an amazing trip through an even more amazing world. You will find other books full of knowledge about the Dark Tower, like: Insomnia, Rose Madder, The Stand, Salem's Lot, The Eyes of the Dragon. Even if just sharing a character, they all somehow tie in together. (And honestly, one of them tell more about the Dark Tower itself than any of the Dark Tower books so far.) And best of all, the story isn't over yet!! We've all got to wait for the last two or three to be written. The waiting is the hardest part, because the books are always read so quickly. Calling them page-turners is an understatement! They are landmarks.
Rating: 4
Summary: Another Great Steven King Book
Comment: This is the third installment of Steven King's fantasy series, The Dark Tower, which follows the story of the Gunslinger Roland, the equivalent of an Arthurian knight in the world King has created, and his quest to reach the Dark Tower in order to make the world right again. In previous books, Roland met three people from our world, two of whom accompanied him on his quest.
This installment includes three important separate stories: (1) the "drawing" of one more person from Earth, the child Jake whom we first met in the introductory book in this series; (2) the companions' travails in the city that lies in the path of their quest; and (3) the beginning of the companions' encounter with the mad monorail. Each of these stories is compelling in its own right, although I do not suggest reading this book before reading the previous two because, although you would be entertained and intrigued by King's alternate world, you would be missing the full story.
Along with the interesting plots, we also learn much more about Roland's world. Part of this new knowledge comes from the tales Roland tells his companions, but much more is a by-product of the plot. We learn more about how the world has changed from Roland's youth, and we are treated to an imaginative post-apocalyptic vision of a city ruled by gangs whose original rivalry was rooted in a generation gap. King treats us as visitors to this world in much the same way that Roland's companions are. Rather than explain every little detail as it comes up, he prefers to let us discover the world as if we were really visiting it.
Finally, King makes even more explicit the fact to which he alluded in earlier volumes that the villains in Roland's world are the same villains patrolling our world in Steven King books. In his other works, King usually drops a reference to other books he has written--e.g., several of his books allude to the dog who ran amok in Cujo. In the Dark Tower series, however, rather than making oblique references to other books, King has made it clear that the boogie men from other books inhabit this world as well. Fans of King's horror works should, therefore, also read this series in order to learn more about what King thinks of his villains.
Rating: 4
Summary: Solid continuation of the Dark Tower saga
Comment: The third installment of the Dark Tower saga features strong characterization and some well-staged horror/action set pieces. Without a doubt, the characters are the stong point of this novel. Eddie Dean's wisecracks may be somewhat annoying, but the rest of the characters, especially Jake and Roland, are some of the most in depth people that King has ever written. One drawback is the plot does not move as swiftly as the previous installments, and most of the book focuses mostly on side quests instead of on the Tower itself. The last third of the book is very strong, though, and it will leave King fans hungry for the next book, Wizards and Glass. Recommend to King, Dark Tower and fiction fans alike.
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Title: The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1) by Stephen King, Michael Whelan ISBN: 0670032549 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 23 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, Book 5) by Stephen King, Bernie Wrightson ISBN: 1880418568 Publisher: Donald M. Grant/Scribner Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Song of Susannah (The Dark Tower, Book 6) by Stephen King, Darrel Anderson ISBN: 1880418592 Publisher: Donald M. Grant/Scribner Pub. Date: 08 June, 2004 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Stephen King's The Dark Tower: A Concordance, Vol. 1 by Robin Furth, Stephen King ISBN: 0743252071 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King, David Palladini ISBN: 0451166582 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 10 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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