emily’s Reviews > The Drawing of the Three > Status Update

i... completely forgot that they don't draw jake at all in this book.

are we meant to think that jack mort is wearing women's underwear or that roland doesn't know what briefs are? the things SK has decided roland does or doesn't know about seem randomly chosen.

ALSO lots to be said about those of SK's heroes who fall into love at first sight and how that is always a sign of virtue and heroism, but for the characters who fall into lust at first sight it's almost always a sign of corruption, or the threat of it.

there's also something interesting in how SK chooses who talks about sex and how, not just in DT but all his books. part of it is that he's not good at writing sex and i think he knows it, so he uses horniness-- the succubus who attacks jake, detta's sexual appetites and filthy mouth-- to indicate wrongness or evil. HAVING sex doesn't mean you're bad, but how you TALK about it might.

there's a LOT to say picking apart the way roland and eddie talk about detta vs odetta. SK is doing his best but his limitations as a white cis-male boomer do show through. detta is just hard to take seriously, i guess? and so the way they talk about her as evil and monstrous feels icky. and then odetta as the opposite pure good, also weird.

"what did you think i was doing, calling red lobster for takeout?... i shot one of the fuckers and cooked the living christ out of it." i love eddie dean.

sweet jesus king is so good at these urgent scenes where every fumble is excruciating, every second is a horrible torment.

in the dark tower drinking game that doesn't exist, you'd take a shot anytime roland mis-hears a word from our world, and i'd be taking my first shot now for tooter fish lolol