The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, Book 3) | Stephen King

The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, Book 3) | Stephen King | Wait til you get to the end of this one!

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	The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, Book 3) Stephen King Signet, 2003 - 608 pages average customer review:based on 187 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Waste Lands

In breathtaking style King picks up where the second Dark Tower book left off. By now reviews are pretty pointless, as either you're hooked on the series, or you haven't started yet. If you haven't read the first book, you're reading the wrong review - look for "The Gunslinger" and start there. If you've read the first two then I'll tell you what you want to hear:

This book is as amazing as the last two. The story rolls forward at a brilliant rate and has one of the best openings to any novel I've ever read, thrilling and mind-blowing, throwing fresh insights into Roland's stale world at us continuously. The characters are solidified further and are now totally believable, even the comic book dialogue of Eddie Dean. The characters complement each other in a way that must have taken King months to work out (if it comes to him intrinsically, God help us - other writers will become extinct). The complement of tertiary characters livens things up to an insane degree, bringing the Three to new areas of the run-down world that they travel through in search of the Dark Tower.

I rave about the first three books because they're awesome. They're awesome because they're seemingly flawless - even if this isn't technically true, the illusion of such is so rare in literature nowadays that we must take it when we get it. The following novel doesn't necessarily live up to the brilliant cliff-hanger in "The Waste Lands", but that's debatable and something for another review. For those wanting to know if it's really worth investing in a third book (by which time it will probably too late, you'll just have to read them all anyway now!) then the answer is "yes" - go for it, because you won't regret it in the slightest.

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Wait til you get to the end of this one!

King takes no vacation from his imagination with this book, the third in the great series, The Dark Tower. The world his small team inhabits is getting more strange with every page. I loved the way Jake re-entered the story, it was very shocking and delightful at the same time. The end of this book is the real thrill. Sorry, can't spoil it for you, just buy it and read it for yourself!

Kevin Gerard
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Roland and Blaine

I am not going to do a rendition of this book, I see this has already been done. This is the third book of the Dark Tower series, following The Gunslinger and The Drawing of the Three. This is my favorite book so far. The story gets better and better the deeper you plunge into Rolands world, and Blaine just topped the cake. Take my advise and read these books in order, you do not want to be lost in Roland's story. I recommend this book and this series.

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One of the best books of all time

As a fan of the Dark Tower series I've read all the books at least twice. Waste lands I've read 7 times. It is one of my all time favorite books and the best of the dark tower series. It is the breakthrough book in which you really discover Roland's world and its links to ours. It is also a great adventure with SK's excellent character development.

Not bad

I just finished my second reading of The Waste lands and it just doesn't engage like it did the first time I read it years ago. I've been heavily into hard sci-fi stuff like Baxter lately and going back to King feels like taking a step back to high-school level reading. I don't say that trying to be snobbish but its just the way it feels.

The ideas are still lots of fun though and King still manages to surprise occasionally. It's still worth reading the series if only for those reasons.

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