The Waste Lands

The Dark Tower Book III The Dark Tower III

by Stephen King

Paperback, 422 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 1992 by Plume.

ISBN:: 978-0-452-26740-4
OCLC Number:: 939908175

With The Waste Lands, the third masterful novel in Stephen King's epic saga, The Dark Tower, we again enter the realm of the mightiest imagination of our time. King's hero, 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 mirror image of our own. With him are those he has drawn to this world, street-smart Eddie Dean and courageous wheelchair-bound Susannah. Ahead of him are mind-rending revelations about who he is and what is driving him. Against him is arrayed a swelling legion of fiendish foes both more and less than human. And as the pace of action and adventure, discovery and danger pulse-poundingly quickens, the reader is inescapably drawn into a breathtaking drama that is both hauntingly dreamlike...and eerily familiar. The Waste Lands is a triumph of storytelling …

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Jan Kjellin reviewed The Waste Lands by Stephen King (Dark Tower, #3)

Review of 'The Waste Lands' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Although a little slow moving, things overall get more interesting than in the previous book in the series. I still haven't quite got to grips with the story or setting(s), but I'm slowly getting there - meaning I'm getting more ready to accept it for what it is and less inclined to look for a "rational" explanation of where/when/how.

Smart move, btw, to end it with a cliffhanger. ;)

CyborgHobbit reviewed The waste lands by Stephen King (The dark tower)

Review of 'The waste lands' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

The second book was a such a disappointment after the first that I wasn't sure what to expect from book three. I was pleasantly surprised to enjoy it so much. More of the Gunslinger's world and less of New York; that's what I needed.