Once you finish, I wonder if you'll still feel the same? If you'll finish.įor me, each one was better than the last. I hope you finished you're niave journey, 3 books in and you think you know the Dark Tower series.how shallow, as many have thought. I tried once and quit, but this time I'm determined to reach the end of The Dark Tower.

If they never reached The Tower by the end, I would still be fairly satisfied to have enjoyed their comĪll that said, I'm on book 3 and I have the other 4 on standby (as well as The Wind Through the Keyhole). Roland not quite so much but those others are interesting to me. I'm finding I don't care about the ultimate quest of finding the Tower I just care about the day-by-day actions of Eddie, Susannah and Jake. HERE is where things are starting to get moving. He could've added these characters to the plot easily in under 100 pages instead of drawing (get it?) it out for so long. There were a few take-away things, like the fight at Balazar's and the return to Jake's world with the third door, but other than that, I really don't think this book needed to BE a book. The parts in Detta's mind were a little ridiculous, having single paragraphs consume multiple pages (sometimes one whole, rambling sentence as if, for the Dark Tower series, Stephen King decided to excuse any rules of basic grammar which he does sometimes in his other books but not to this extent). The Drawing of the Three was average at best. The original wasn't too bad, but this newer revised edition is absolutely awful! Lost my interest before the 1/4 mark and then just didn't throw anything particularly worthwhile in to get the interest back. Absolutely loathed it and will, in fact, go as far as to say it's the worst book I think Stephen King has EVER written. As a first-time reader who is just shy of halfway through The Waste Lands, I'll share my initial thoughts.

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