Wednesday, November 9, 2016

The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King

28253762The first book in The Dark Tower series is kind of weird and has a bit of a dreamlike quality to it. The world the gunslinger finds himself is similar to our own in a few ways but is also completely different. The second book, The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three picks up right after the end of the first book and has Roland the gunslinger finding different portals in his world that open up into our reality (and to the usual Stephen King type characters). I enjoyed it because there's really no way to predict what is coming and I had no clue what would happen. I just hope that the future volumes explain the how/why those magic doors just appear... Also I find it kinda funny that this book does nothing to answer the huge questions of why Roland is going to the Dark Tower in the first place and what exactly the Dark Tower is. By the end he pretty much makes no progress at all. Anyway, I guess I'll say it is an A-. Also, somewhat unexpectedly, the book mentions Gone with the Wind.

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