Books : The Dark Tower: Drawing of the Three Bk. 2 (Dark Tower)

Rating: - wow - compulsively readable and addictive
wow
this book is utterly brilliant - unbelievably well written - completely gripping and compulsively readable.
i will be honest that i didn't expect great things after the slightly disappointing Gunslinger, but this 2nd volume in King's Magnum Opus just takes the piss. it is a million miles better than number 1. and has made me a Dark Tower fan in seconds.
it is basically three doors and a story of drawing sidekicks out of them for the enigmatic hero Roland. These characters are amazing and colorful, the world's they come from and the scenes they get embroiled in are readable and gripping. King crafts characters better than most any other writer i know and this is no exception - the intros to every character are huge - and even minor characters get their entire life related to the reader.
its immensely satisfying - i found myself getting through about 150 pages of it in one sitting - it really was an up-all-nighter - the parallel world's and situations are just amazing to read.
King has done himself proud - and after this blinder of a novel i have high high hopes for this epic tale. if the rest of the series is even half as good as this one - it'll be an epic of unrivalled quality.
10/10 - its going straight in my top books - and hopefully if the series lives up it, has guaranteed a place for the whole Dark Tower tale :D

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Rating: - best in show
this is the best dark tower book - excellent pace, a gripping page turner.

it could almost be a standalone novel (almost) and has the most unique identity of all seven books.

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Rating: - The Drawing of the Three
It was inevitable that King wouldn't be able to keep up the dreamlike storytelling style that made "Gunslinger", the first in the Dark Tower series, so great. But of course he never intended to, he wanted to thoroughly open up the world that he had only just begun to describe in the first book.

The "Drawing of the Three" brings together the group of travellers that accompany Roland, the gunslinger, on his quest for the Dark Tower. From Roland's world we peer into others, including our own, and from them come to know a group of expertly realised characters in the form of Eddie, Odetta and Jake, all of which become so very real throughout the series that the books are not simply compulsive, but self-driven to the extent that you're worried they'll carry on without you if you ever put them down.

The opening is brilliant. When the story branches and we come to know the new characters, the "three", it gets even better. And, as King is so well at doing, the different threads come together in a manner that makes this second book so difficult to put down.

If you read the first book and wonder if you want to pick up the second, perhaps unsure of the route King is taking in this genre, or intimidated by the size of the sequels, don't hesitate. Pick up the second. If by the end you don't immediately want to pick up the third book, I'll eat my hat. If I owned one.

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Rating: - Roland of Gilead looks for companions for his quest ...
No quest should be made alone. Every hero gets companions brought to him by the fate and the quest of the Dark Tower is no exception. Roland of Gilead, the last gunslinger of the fast dying world needs to find three companions who were predestined for him - and if he fails, his quest will also fail. But the fate tips often the balance against the hero and Roland starts this challenge with a very serious handicap. No more details will be provided but this book is possibly the most upsetting (in the good sense of the world) in the whole series. The feeling of emergency and the run against the clock is described by Stephen King in a masterly way - as well as the suffering of the main hero, who really pays for every step forward with his blood, especially when trying to bring to his world the first of the companions, who is also possibly the most unlikely.... This book also has great humour moments, especially Roland's comments on our world. It is not frequent to find such a good and exciting read.

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Rating: - three doors and three companions?
this is king's secon visit to mid-world, the land of the last gunslinger roland deschain. it immediatly picks up where the first book left off, on the beach near the ruins.

this book centres on three doors that appear on this beach, through which another world and time awaits. as well as a prospective companion behind each door.

a great book that carries on the story at a great pace.

bring on the wastelands