Title The Wastelands: The Dark Tower Book III
Author: Stephen King
Publisher: The Penguin Group
Year: 1991
420 pages
From the Back: With The Wastelands, 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 dream-like and eerily familiar. The Wastelands is a triumph in storytelling sorcery and further testament to Stephen King's novelistic master.
Personal Thoughts: I thought I would struggle with taking so long between installments of this story, but King has a was of drawing you into the story each time. He did end reviewing the previous novels at different points in the book so it wasn't hard to get caught up.
The Dark Tower continues to be an exciting story and, as always, King's writing makes it hard to put the book down because you want to find out what happens next! This book ends on a cliffhanger, at which King even leaves the reader an apology letter for leaving us with a cliffhanger. That said, it's certainly one way to make sure the next book gets sold!
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