Roland, The Last Gunslinger, moves ever closer to The Dark Tower of his dreams and nightmares - as he crosses a desert of damnation in a macabre world that is a twisted image of our own. With him are those he has drawn to this world: street-smart Eddie Dean and courageous wheel-chair-bound Susannah. Ahead of him are mind-rending revelations about who and what is driving him. Against him is arrayed a swelling legion of foes both more and less than human. A breathtaking drama of action and adventure, discovery and danger, The Waste Lands is further testament to King's novelistic mastery.
Excellent Read...part of box set.

Louis H. (
swapcat) wrote on 4/15/2007...
A good continuation of the epic. I agree that it ends rather arbitrarily, but I will survive. My copy is the 1st printing of the edition and has a different cover from the one PBS shows now. My cover shows an old steam locomotive.
I loved the entire series, very good writing and not as scary as regular King novels.

Sharon C. (
DustyShu) wrote on 9/14/2006...
Long book and I got a bit stalled toward the middle. However, it did pick up speed at the end.

Loretta H. (
Ravenz) wrote on 8/22/2006...
King's third volume on Roland the gunfighter's search for the Dark Tower. Roland has two companions on his quest for the tower at the portal of all the worldsp. 53 : Susannah Dean and Eddie Dean, who entered his world from New York City of 1963 and 1987, When the three track down the den of a 70-foot-tall cyborg bear, they are pointed down a path leading to the Tower. But Roland is slowly going mad, a fact that seems linked to his past experiences with Jake Chambers, a boy who died twicestet ital in the first book of the series. Jake reappears here, displaying great resilience in crossing over from 1977 New York City to join Roland & Co
Continuing saga of the Gunslinger series.

Lynne C. (
woosa) wrote on 5/17/2006...
An excellent continuation of the first two books in the series.
Needs to be read in order to fully understand the story.
This is book #3.
the Gunslinger moves ever closer to the Dark Tower of his dreams and nightmares