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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second in Stephen King's <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Tale-Finally-Complete%3F-Dark-Tower/lm/18QX55ZQC5PHT/ref=cm_lmt_srch_f_1_rsrsrs0">Dark Tower Series</a>.  <br/><br/>This story continues to follow gunslinger Roland Deschain on his quest for the Dark Tower. If you haven't read that one, you'll want to read it first.<br/><br/>This story begins not long after the last one leaves off: Roland wake...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15727533">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading the pile of piss that was The Da Vinci Code, I decided to jump back into The Dark Tower series.  My best friend is a Stephen King junkie and has told me again and again that either this or the final book in the series are his favorite ones.  So I suppose I picked up this one with a bit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/989688">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok now we get into it....this is going to be a great series...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[`The Drawing Of The Three' is the second instalment in the epic `Dark Tower' fantasy series. The story runs for a total of 450 pages within the 3712 pages the entire series spans for, taking the reader firmly into the saga of the gunslinger Roland and the barren world King has created. <br/><br/>T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47796922">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, I liked the first one clearly better. He has some nice ideas and especially daring one right at the start. But there also some ideas that just don't add up for me. The new characters aren't bad, but act strangely sometimes and sometimes get annoying. I have to say that I am not a fan of the co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80056840">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>This is yet another of Stephen King’s books that will have you wanting more. I believe whoever who has read the first book and is into fantasy, horror, science fiction, and western books will enjoy this book along with the rest of the books in the series. The journey of the Gunslinger contin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73153960">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was suprised with how quickly I purchased the second book in this series! I was pleased to see that it was much thicker than the first one, and I figured that it would be filled with plenty of information regarding Roland's past, and the mysterious boy that he meets (Jake) in the first book. Howev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65588802">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Yes, I read all 7 books- took me almost a year (with a few books in between each tower book). A whole year!!!!! Just to end up at the very beginning of the entire series. Personally, I feel that Stephen King pulled the biggest prank in the reading world. I nearly through the last book across the roo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20753839">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is King's second installment in his Dark Tower series and follows Roland the gunslinger as he travels north along the coast in his own world. A place where when night falls monstrosities faintly resembling lobsters (ergo: lobstrosities).<br/>In the search for the three people who will help him...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65808212">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was written during the years when King was still all for fast-moving action sequences complete with colorful characters and gruesome deaths. The next book, The Waste Lands, will have more of those, IIRC. The Drawing of the Three is most compelling when it takes the reader to look more closely a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35608802">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[goodbye reality; hello stephen king!<br/><br/>There have only been a few occasions when I've gotten this absorbed into a story: watching the entire Babylon 5 series in three day, reading 100 issues of Captain America comic books, and watching the entire Rurouni Kenshin series in about a week.  The...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75295597">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[On the whole, this is much more readable than The Gunslinger.   King wrote the Gunslinger over a long period, and it shows. The first few parts of The Gunslinger, which he wrote earlier in his career, are plodding and purple prosed. The latter sections are better, and the evolution of his writing st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36879203">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Dark Tower Series Book II<br/>The Drawing of the Three<br/>Stephen King<br/>Published 1986<br/><br/>Ok, so you read The Gunslinger, and now you are considering taking the next step on the path of The Dark Tower series. This would bring you to The Drawing of the Three, a book that begins to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73905788">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Man in Black is dead, and Roland is about to be hurled into 20th-century America, occupying the mind of a man running cocaine on the New York/Bermuda shuttle. A brilliant work of dark fantasy inspired by Browning's romantic poem, &quot;Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came&quot;.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The compelling saga continues. Really, even at the end of this book it's still just getting started. I'm becoming more entranced with Roland. Things slowed down for me while new characters were being introduced. I nearly lost my interest because I wanted more of Roland, but things picked up again as...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55349376">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Much like the first book, I found certain things interesting and certain things contrived. I do like the fact that this volume is so different in tone and content than the first, and from what I hear, that's the case with all of the books. I appreciate a series that allows itself to so drastically b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60306822">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's very seldom I say a book is bad but this is one of those times.  I have read and enjoyed many other of Kings books and as a horror writer I think he's great and excellent at building suspense.  <br/><br/>But I found this book and the series poorly written with a plot that just didn't work for...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78611529">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Book #1 (The Gunslinger) leaves you hanging with a bunch of unanswered questions (Who is/was the man in black?  Why is the Gunslinger chasing him in the first place?  Who is a gunslinger and what does one do?).  Book 2 raises a bunch of new questions, but still doesn't everything from book #1 so I'm...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67297210">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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