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The Waste Lands
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DISCLAIMER: Many aspects of THE GUNSLINGER ACTION ADVENTURE EXPEDITION are comprised of potentially dangerous activities involving giant cyborgs, possessed buildings, demon rapists and extras from the cast of Deliverance, do you ken it. There is a risk of serious injury, being Roont or even Charyou Tree. Therefore GUNSLINGER KA-TETS WITH DINH ONLY. While training and remembering the face of your father can reduce the inherent risks, Ka is a wheel and they cannot be completely eliminated do
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seak
Jul 14, 2009 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 2011, stephen-king
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Another stunning installment in the Dark Tower series, The Waste Lands brings our quest for the dark tower that much closer, and actually giving it plenty of momentum which is, I'm told, possibly to be dashed in further installments.

Where The Gunslinger was a correlating collection of stories and The Drawing of the Three brings the
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Jen
Dec 09, 2010 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fantasy
I have gone back and forth on my opinion of this series with each book. I had a lot of trouble paying attention in this one.

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Review from February 2011

The Waste Lands continues the ka-tet's journey toward The Dark Tower. Roland is going a little crazy (as am I the reader) trying to mentally handle the conflicting events between book 1 and book 2. The mental instability does draw to a close (for all of us involved), however, and our quest continues through Mid-World.

This was not a remarkable book
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Tom Britz
Jun 21, 2017 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Again, Stephen King, proves himself THE master at pulse pounding action and mind-rending psychological extremes. When a writer can make your pulse pound and get antsy just by reading some words on paper, then you know that writer has you completely at his mercy. Stephen King has that power.
This is the third installment of King's Magnum Opus, The Dark Tower. And he starts this one off with a bang. Our three adventurers are assaulted by a seventy foot bear, which is in actuality a cyborg, part ani
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Frank Taranto
Sep 18, 2009 rated it really liked it
Shelves: fantasy
The third in the series. The riddle game with Blaine is excellent. Lud is a scary place.
Alen
Aug 19, 2011 added it
Shelves: fantasy-modern
not much about the waste lands but this was probably the first real good book in the dark tower series
Elena
Dec 18, 2010 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
So far the best in the series. The book really took me out of this world.
Carly Svamvour
Oct 20, 2009 rated it liked it
I thought all of these (read 3 of them) were ridiculous. Childish.
Patrick
Jan 04, 2008 rated it it was amazing
STEPHANIE STANTON
Apr 08, 2008 rated it it was amazing
Dave
Jun 03, 2008 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fantasy, novels
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Jul 14, 2008 rated it really liked it
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Jul 29, 2008 rated it really liked it
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Nov 23, 2008 rated it really liked it
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Mekenzie Larsen
Dec 09, 2008 rated it it was amazing
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Antonio
Dec 17, 2008 rated it it was amazing
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Stacey Thomas
Jan 04, 2009 marked it as to-read
Mike
Jan 28, 2009 rated it it was ok
Shelves: fantasy, borrowed, series
Ann
Apr 19, 2009 rated it it was amazing
Robert
Mar 22, 2011 rated it it was amazing
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Apr 01, 2012 rated it liked it
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Nov 05, 2014 marked it as to-read
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Jan 17, 2015 rated it really liked it
Kelly
Jun 25, 2015 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: books-i-own
Brandy
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