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[darchildre]

Okay, so I still haven't found The Gunslinger, but I decided that I know what happens in it* and just skipped to The Drawing of the Three. Which I hadn't read in forever - I haven't read any of the Dark Tower for about...god, five years now and unlike (apparently) the rest of the Dark Tower fandom, I never liked Drawing of the Three and much preferred The Gunslinger.

But now, I am done with Drawing of the Three and have begun The Waste Lands, which is probably the book in the series that I like the best. There has been the gunslinger's catechism and the giant cyborg bear and Eddie's carving stuff and Roland is going crazy and oh man, I love this book. So much love.

In other Stephen King related news! I have been watching Haven. It's still very monster-of-the-week, but it's fun and I'm enjoying it, though none of the characters have really grabbed me as yet. But, y'know, I'm only about halfway through the first season. I am looking forward to future revelations and hoping that the headline in the credits that mentions Reverend Flagg actually comes to something eventually, as opposed to just being a sort of easter egg.





*Desert, Tull, flashbacks, David, Speaking Demon, "Go then, there are other worlds than these", "Death, gunslinger, but not for you", giant freaking blade of grass.

Comments

[cereta]

OMG, The Wastelands! I love The Wastelands! I could read that book FOREVER.

[cereta]

Also, I JUST POSTED about Reverend Flagg!

[silveradept]

The Rev. does become more prominent into the second season, yes. Still stays kind of monster-of-the-week, but there's the underpinnings of some underlying narrative here and there.

[dingsi]

Do you have any commentary on DotT after the re-read? I remember it left a strong impression on me and I'd be interested in your thoughts.

[darchildre]

I have to say that I still don't like it much. It feels to me very much like a transitional book - we did important stuff in Gunslinger, we're going to do important stuff in Waste Lands, but now we have to have a book to collect the rest of the characters. There are bits of it that I like - the image of the unsupported doors on the beach is a lovely one, the showdown with Balazar is pretty cool, I enjoy the sequences of Roland interacting in a world more like our own - but there's a whole lot of "shooting lobster monsters on the beach" that just does very little for me. I'm glad to have Eddie and Susannah, but I'm even more glad to move on to the next book where the quest proper begins.