Search - The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, Bk 2)

There is more humanity mixed in with the horror in this book. My nightmares weren't as scary.

Tried to read it but it didn't grab me.

The second volume in a series. "The last gunslinger is drawn through a door that brings him to contemporary america." Classic King.

This is book two in the seven book series and probably the most important in the development of the story line. A great read, every time I read it.

Great book, intense, scary.

excelent novel, but the cover is differnet than shown

Excellent Read...part of box set.

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.

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King is my second favorite fantasy series of all time, second only to Tolkien's Lord Of The Rings.

Great series. I've read this several times.

Excellent like the rest of the series. Gripping.

The Dark Tower 11

With Breathtaking imagination, continues His brilliant Epic. Masterfully interweaving dark evocative fantasy with gritty realism

I enjoyed the whole series, but this book was one of the three story pivots, where the Three are Drawn and Roland's quest really begins. This book has the original art.

FROM THE PUBLISHER
Stephen King returns to the Dark Tower in this second mesmerizing volume in his epic series. Roland of Gilead has mysteriously stepped through a doorway in time that takes him to 1980s America, where he joins forces with the defiant Eddie Dean and courageous Odetta Holmes. A savage struggle has begun in which underworld evil and otherworldly enemies conspire to bring an end to Roland's desperate search for the Dark Tower. Masterfully weaving dark fantasy and icy realism, The Drawing of the Three compulsively propels readers toward the next chapter. Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, The Dark Tower series is unlike anything you've ever read. Here is Stephen King's most visionary piece of storytelling, a magical mix of fantasy and horror that may well be his crowning achievement.