The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, Book 2) by Stephen King and Frank Muller

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The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, Book 2)
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Updated on 12-28-2008.

Features

Audio CD: 11 pages

Publisher: Penguin Audio; Unabridged edition (July 29, 2003)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0142800384

ISBN-13: 978-0142800386

Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 5.3 x 1.5 inches

Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces ()

From Publishers Weekly
Elaborating at great length on Robert Browning's cryptic narrative poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came," the second volume of King's post-Armageddon epic fantasy presents the equally enigmatic quest of Roland, the world's last gunslinger, who moves through an apocalyptic wasteland toward the Dark Tower, "the linchpin that holds all of existence together." Although these minor but revealing books (which King began while still in college) are full of such adolescent portentousness, this is livelier than the first. Roland enters three lives in the alternate world of New York City: junkie and drug runner Eddie Dean, schizophrenic heiress Odetta Holmes and serial murder Jack Mort. If King tells us too little about Roland, he gives us too much about these misfits who are variously healed or punished exactly as expected. Typically, King is much better at the minutiae and sensations of a specific physical world, and several such bravura sequences (from an attack by mutant lobsters to a gun store robbery) are standouts amid the characteristic headlong storytelling. BOMC alternate.
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Review
King is a master at creating living, breathing, believable characters. -- Baltimore Sun

This quest is one of King's best...communicates on a genuine, human level...but rich in symbolism and allegory. -- Columbus Dispatch --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, Book 2) (Hardcover) The Drawing of the Three is the second book in the Dark Tower saga, which is of course, the greatest series of books ever written. This volume introduces Eddie Dean, Odetta Holmes/Detta Walker, and Jack Mort. Eddie Dean is a heroin junkie from the 1980's. Odetta Holmes is a civil rights activist from the 1960's, and Detta Walker is her dark half. Jack Mort is a serial killer from the 1970's. The second stanza continues the tale of Roland, the last of the Gunslingers who continues his trek towards the Dark Tower. He happens upon three doors standing freely along the beach. The doors open onto three different times in "our" world, out of which, Roland draws his three...(sort of) The tale itself is very well written, and the dialogue is far superior to the original text from the Dark Tower I. This is where the course of Roland's story really begins to take its shape. From the first paragraph, picking up six hours after Roland's palaver with the Man in Black, the book moves forward at an almost un-relenting pace. Anyone who likes to read period, will enjoy this book.

The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, Book 2)
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Price: $25.05
Updated on 12-28-2008.