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The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, Book 2)
by: Stephen King

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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780451210852
ISBN: 0451210859
Label: Signet
Manufacturer: Signet
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: 2003-08
Publisher: Signet
Release Date: August 05, 2003
Sales Rank: 6441
Studio: Signet

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The Man in Black is dead, and Roland is about to be hurled into 20th-century America, occupying the mind of a man running cocaine on the New York/Bermuda shuttle. A brilliant work of dark fantasy inspired by Browning's romantic poem, 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'.

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- Gargantuan improvement over the first one
Well, I really expected these books to improve as they went along, but I didn't expect such a vast improvement so quickly! Basically, King immediately gets it going with everything the story needed: Roland gets a handicap; other, more fully developed and motivationally complicated characters are introduced; there's some more action this time with a stronger sense of danger; and he really develops the world more. Of course, I'm a little disappointed by how much it involves "the real world" or "our world", but nonetheless, a true spark has finally been ignited.

True, the first book was more like a prelude, introducing the epic, archetypical aspect of the story. It really isn't a story on its own, it's just the beginning of the first act, leading up to the call to adventure. But that still remains my problem with it: not stand alone at all, it might as well have been a single chapter in this second ... Read More

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- Where The Dark Tower Series Really Takes Off
After being disappointed by the first Dark Tower book, "The Gunslinger", I was hopeful that the second installment would entertain me to a much higher tree. Jackpot!

Whereas "Gunslinger" had a little too much storytelling and a little too little explanation, "The Drawing of the Three" takes a bit of a step back to help explain exactly what type of world Roland is living in.

For a quick summary of the text (without spoiling anything!), Roland finds out that doors exist between his world and other worlds...doors that he can enter. By entering those doors (as prophesized by the Man in Black in "Gunslinger"), Roland draws some of the companions that will help him on his quest to find the Dark Tower itself. First, Roland meets Eddie Dean, a heroin junkie, who has trouble trusting this gunslinger from another world (imagine that!). Roland also becomes acquainted with Odetta Holmes/Detta Walker, ... Read More

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- Best book in a great series
This is a great book. It's one of my favorite series, because it is epic fantasy told by a master of supernatural horror whose strongest talent as a writer is his ability to depict realism, particularly realistic people and human interaction -- that's a good combination. Stephen King's books feel real, which is why his monsters and things are so very creepy, because they seem like they're actually happening -- and his other great talent is in picking monsters and evil events that, if they were to actually happen, it would be the worst thing imaginable: we'd have to confront some really nasty things about ourselves and our world. Take Storm of the Century, for instance. The worst thing about that isn't Legion (Though he's extremely cool in his badness -- another King talent is how well he understands cool), the worst thing about that is that, if it happened, that is exactly what people would do. The audience would ... Read More

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- "Drawing" Me In
I read this directly after The Gunslinger. This book was very imaginative and actually not what I was expecting but I did really enjoy it. I kept wanting more because I couldn't predict what was going to happen next, which was really refreshing since that hasn't happened to me in a while. A lot of this book is set up for character development and sort of drawn out in places. The new characters are very interesting and should be fun to watch progress through the series. I was caught off guard, but also liked the way Roland actually draws the other players into the quest. Very different which is what I thought made it enjoyable.Good action with some cool creatures. The gunfights are very fun to read and King really sets a great tone for the next coming books.

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