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Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and his companions--Eddie Dean and Susannah--cross the desert of damnation, drawing ever closer to the Dark Tower, a legion of fiendish foes, and revelations that could alter the world.
Afalstein: Another book in the series, with a similar action-packed plot, but with a more developed narrative that's also somehow outside the main action.
I loved it , its hard to describe what I like about the book but I simply love it. As it is dead center of the series lengthy review seems to loose its value, but this book still stands on its own and is an entertaining story. Despite its length it doesn't feel drawn out as well. It feels just right and I love it for that! If you are reading reviews for the third book in the series I would suspect you are already hooked. But if by chance you are checking out reviews for the books in the series and are still on the edge, I invite you to jump in, it is different and tasty read (true for all books I've read so far, maybe first not so much) . RECOMMENDED ( )
Dieses Buch - und die Serie - ist so toll! An manchen Stellen etwas brutal, aber das ist man von Stephen King ja gewohnt. Und ich freue mich gerade, dass ich mit dem Weiterlesen dieses Mal nicht wieder jahrelang warten muss... :D ( )
This is a really good installment of the series. I'm not extremely fond of some of the inappropriate, icky bits... but that's what the "skip ahead" button is for. ( )
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow in the morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
-- T.S. Eliot
"The Waste Land"
If there pushed any ragged thistle-stalk
Above its mates, the head was chopped; the bents
Were jealous else. What made those holes and rents
In the dock's hearth swarth leaves, bruised as to balk
All hop of greenness? 'tis a brute must walk
Pashing their life out, with a brute's intents.
-- Robert Browning
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"
"What river is it?" enquired Millicent idly.
"It's only a stream. Well, perhaps a little more than that. It's called the Waste."
"Is it really?"
"Yes," said Winifred, "it is."
-- Robert Aickman
"Hand in Glove"
Dedication
This third volume of the tale is gratefully dedicated to my son, OWEN PHILIP KING: Khef, ka, and ka-tet.
First words
It was her third time with live ammunition. . .and her first time on the draw from the holster Roland had rigged for her.
Quotations
The house was alive. He knew this, could feel its awareness reaching out from the boards and the slumping roof, could feel it pouring in rivers from the black sockets of its windows. The idea of approaching that terrible place filled him with dismay; the idea of actually going inside filled him with inarticulate horror.
Last words
"SO," cried the voice of Blaine, "CAST YOUR NETS, WANDERERS! TRY ME WITH YOUR QUESTIONS, AND LET THE CONTEST BEGIN."
Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and his companions--Eddie Dean and Susannah--cross the desert of damnation, drawing ever closer to the Dark Tower, a legion of fiendish foes, and revelations that could alter the world.
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Choo Choo Engine stood before Roland the Brave asking mean riddles.
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