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    <body><![CDATA[In this book Jake Chambers was brought back into Roland's world to join the ka-tet of Eddie, Susannah, and Roland. In the process Susannah is forced to have sex with a demon in order for Jake to get through the portal in time. We are also introduced to the Path of the Beam by way of the turtle and w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41288006">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My tolerance for Stephen King seems to ebb and flow constantly.  He's probably the author whose books I read the most, but sometimes he just gets on my nerves.  To make a cinematic connection, he reminds me of Quentin Tarantino, who always tries to talk hip and act cool, but most of the time I'm not...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30389510">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The main storyline of the Dark Tower really reveals itself in this book, the third installment. More ground is covered (literally, travelled by the protaganists) than any of the other books in the series. In fact, this probably the most straight-up fantasy adventure in the series. If quests, rescues...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24673302">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Maybe the best birthday gift I ever got from my grandmother, and definitely one of the ones she wasn't paying attention to when she bought. Even back in 1999, when I had wicked issues with slow reading, I managed to rip through this. I was riveted with King's storytelling and the way demented and st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18709546">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I've pinpointed my trouble with the Dark Tower series (or, to be more specific, the second and third books so far). It's the same trouble I have with latter day George Lucas. Let me explain. The first Star Wars movies to be released were wonderful mainly because it didn't require a huge leap...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47492326">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second time I read this book; I got my hands on a copy of it through one of girlfriend's coworkers, along with some others she was getting rid of. I'm never one to turn down free books, particularly any by Master King, one of the Big Five (my five favorite authors). It's a little jarring...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62981552">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book drew me in with giddy excitement more so than #2.  It's a great read and much fun.  It's only marred by King's repeated use of cliff-hanger moments and tendency to always push resolutions to the very end.  Almost every time there's a build up in threatening circumstances, you can safely be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76362008">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If You’ve Gotten This Far…<br/><br/>DON’T STOP NOW.  That’s about as simple as I can put it.  The third installment of The Dark Tower series is the first book that really takes off, that really sets this collection apart.  It was after this one that I started looking at the The Dark Tower ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73905817">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This series continues to be fascinatingly interesting.  Some of the uniqueness of the first and second books is wearing off, because by this book King has clearly given in to the quest formula (and all the predictable &quot;obstacle-exposition-solution&quot;  patterns that come with it).  But you ca...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61578608">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book killed the series for me.  Odetta the angry, legless kleptomaniac with multiple personalities? Honestly if you had a gun, lived in a fantasy world, and were stuck with a person like this wouldn't you just put her out of her misery?]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, the third installment to King's Black Tower series did not let me down. I'm noticing a pattern- these books are getting better as they progress. The characters had me feeling faithful towards their cause, and I'm glad to announce that a certain character who we thought was dead is no longer de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76033357">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Disappointment, thy name is The Waste Lands.<br/><br/>I devoured Koontz and King back in middle school and part of high school. In retrospect, I could have spent my time on better books, but these chillers were an escape from things I didn't want to think about, especially at night when I couldn't...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47901390">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Sorry to say this portion of <strong>The Dark Tower</strong> series just did not satisfy me.<br/>The Gunslinger begins this work a mental case. He just doesn't have the strength of character he had from King's first two works. For some reason the Gunslinger thinks he is in a quandary about his experiences with a ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75834873">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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