The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, #2) in Crazy Challenge Connection

Sep 16, 2017 Jamie (TheRebelliousReader) rated it liked it

Shelves: borrowed-from-library, fantasy, 3-stars, adult, 2017, completed-series

3 stars. I definitely enjoyed this one a lot more than the first book, especially the first half of this book. It only gets 3 stars because the second half was really ridiculous and boring to me.

There was a really badass and awesome shoot out scene that was so much fun to read. The beginning was great and I found that I had no trouble getting into this book like I did the first one. I liked the new characters for the most part but by the end everyone had started to get on my nerves.

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Aug 24, 2018 Chaitra rated it really liked it

Shelves: horror, fantasy, epic-fantasy, dystopia, epic, part-of-a-series, alternate-world

Reread Jan 11, 2025: I forgot the plot before I got to The Waste Lands, so I'm doing a reread. Same as before. I really like Odetta/Detta.

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I've read this book before during my Stephen King phase when I was a teen. But then I stopped reading midway, when I went off Stephen King and he still hadn't finished the Dark Tower series. When I started my re-read this time around, The Gunslinger didn't impress me in a very special way, the way none of other early Stephen Kings affected me. It j ...more

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Apr 06, 2013 Cathie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2013-reads, favorites, fantasy, 2013-favorites, western, 2013-september

Eddie "If you kill what you love you're damned". "I am damned already" Roland said calmly, "but perhaps even the damned may be saved."

"We all die in time" the gunslinger said. "It's not just the world that moves on". He looked squarely at Eddie, his faded blue eyes almost the color of slate in this light. "But we will be magnificent."

"Even the damned love".

I loved this book in the series ~ Everything about it; the characters, the storyline, Everything.

Stephen King's imagination is like no othe ...more

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Jun 11, 2014 Jasmiina F rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy

The last time I read this I was 14 and now I'm already 24... I didn't even realize how many details I had forgotten in ten years. I reread books quite rarely (so much to read, so little time), but ten years ago I fell in love with these books and it's wonderful to travel with Roland again. It's interesting to read the story again now that I'm older and now that I know how it all ends. It makes me see everything in a new way. By the way, I think it's quite fitting that I finished this today (19th ...more

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Apr 04, 2019 John rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook

Never have I seen a series where the second book has such a positive turnaround from the trainwreck that is the first book. The Gunslinger was a nightmare to read, with assumptions left and right and almost 200 pages of just walking, no real action. This book, however, was a great read! Still not sure what convinced me to start reading (well, listening to) it a couple weeks ago, but I'm glad I did! ...more

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