The Best book in the series!
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I was bound to love this book! I waited four years for it! I reread the first two books to refresh the story in my head for when it was released, and I pestered bookshops on a weekly basis for a release date. The Wastelands brings back the boy, Jake in a plot that truly displays the wonder of King's imagination, and the first true steps of the troupe's journey are taken. King's best fiction is in the slow madness of Jake, (a boy who has already died twice), but also of the Gunslinger, who's mind is being torn apart by a paradox that the gunslinger has created. More intrigues of Roland's world are revealed, including the Beam, a single rose which exists in a development lot in Manhattan, a descendant of a German WWII fighter pilot and even a drum loop of ZZ-Top's 'velcro Fly' elevated to idol worship form yet more reference points to our world. King even starts to hint at his other novels (The Turtle in 'IT', and the priest ... in 'Salem's Lot')...
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Velcro Fly
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If you thought part two of this series (The Drawing of the Three) was good then I’m pleased to inform you that part three ‘The Wastelands’ is even better. In pursuit of the tower, Roland and his companions travel across Mid-World following ‘The Beam’, which, unfortunately for them, leads straight to an unsavory city, called Lud. It’s when Roland and party reach Lud that the story really steps up several gears. I think I read all 300 or so pages of the adventures in Lud in one sitting! It was compulsive stuff! The ending of the book is a real cliffhanger. I can almost guarantee that you’ll finish this book and instantly pick up part four to find out what happened next! I know I did! I wondered, after I’d finished The Wastelands, how many more copies of ZZ Tops ‘Afterburner’ were/have been sold… Ah, that’s what it sounds like…!
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Getting somewhere now!
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The story continues, the books will make no sense unless you read them in order because, as I said, it is one story, just happens to be in several books. We find out more about Rolands world and get deeper into the fantasy. He explains a lot about the Dark Tower and why he is going there, we meet a lot of people and are left with a cliffhanger ending after some very dark-fantasy storytelling. These books are all brilliant and are must-buys! On to book 4...
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And now the story is really starting to take on its form
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In this book King is starting up his story. He has his characters that he wants to complete his story and now the adventure really begins. The characters are constantly revolving around Roland. What Roland is FOR the book what the dark tower is IN the book. He is the most extraordinary character ever to set foot in a story.
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and the Dark Tower draws closer....
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This instalment of Kings Dark Tower series brings the Gunslinger and his new found companions ever closer to their goal. It is the best book of the series so far and draws the reader into an ever more compelling world of truly immense fiction. The Dark Tower is Kings best work so far.. highly recommended.
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