The Drawing of the Three

by Stephen King

Ebook, 1997

Library's rating

Library's review

The second entry in King's "Dark Tower" series finds The Gunsllinger wandering down a beach and walking through magical doors into the heads of random people who are destined to help him on his quest to find the Dark Tower. I thoroughly enjoyed the segments when The Gunslinger was (for lack of a
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better term) lurking inside and occasionally stage-directing the brain of Eddie, a junkie from what I think of as Our World. The long slog down the beach from door to door got a bit tiresome — and I will never look at lobsters (Ded-a-chek? Did-a-chick?) the same way again — but I'm more than game to track down the third installment, The Wastelands.
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Description

Fantasy. Fiction. Literature. Thriller. HTML:The second volume in Stephen King's #1 bestselling Dark Tower Series, The Drawing of the Three is an "epic in the making" (Kirkus Reviews) about a savage struggle against underworld evil and otherworldly enemies. "Stephen King is a master at creating living, breathing, believable characters," hails The Baltimore Sun. Beginning just less than seven hours after The Gunslinger ends, in the second installment to the thrilling Dark Tower Series, Roland encounters three mysterious doorways on a deserted beach along the Western Sea. Each one enters into a different person's life in New York�??here, he joins forces with the defiant young Eddie Dean, and with the beautiful, brilliant, and brave Odetta Holmes, to save the Dark Tower. "This quest is one of King's best...it communicates on a genuine, human level...but is rich in symbolism and allegory" (Columbus Sunday Dispatch). It is a science fiction odyssey that is unlike any tale that Stephen King has ever writt… (more)

Awards

Locus Award (Nominee — Fantasy Novel — 1988)

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Original publication date

1987-05
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