The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, Book 3)
by Stephen King
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Author: Stephen KingEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Published: 2003-09
ISBN: 0451210867
Number of pages: 608
Publisher: Signet
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Book Review: THE WASTE LANDS by Stephen King
Summary: 4 Stars
The Waste Lands is the third novel in Stephen King's Dark Tower series. It picks up several months after The Drawing of the Three, with Roland, Eddie and Susannah hiking through Stephen King's imagination and a Richard Adams homage. Meanwhile, both Roland and Jake, who is back in New York, seem to be going crazy from the paradox Roland created in Drawing.
In the first three hundred pages of The Waste Lands, practically nothing happens. Jake rejoins Roland, and the reader is inundated with foreshadowing of the second half of the book, which seems to have little purpose and is boring. The second half of the book makes up for it, as the group navigates a post-apocalyptic city. Here, Roland tries to rescue Jake and the group tries to find and ride Blaine, the train previously foreshadowed ad nauseum. This latter half of the book is quite exciting, as King is at his best here. His characters are outstanding. And there's a cliffhanger ending.
This is a very uneven book, but it certainly has its high points.
One complaint: A bear that "stood seventy feet high" would not have an eye socket "nearly the size of a baseball". That eye is way disproportionately small.
Summary of The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, Book 3)
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...Horror Books
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