Steven King's Dark Tower II

463 pages

Steven King's Dark Tower II -- The Drawing of the Three, stretches your imagination and makes you feel like you are a part of the story. Dark Tower II is a book about learning about one's self and what makes you "you."

The Dark Tower is the second in a series of books about a character named Roland, who is also called the Gunslinger. Roland's quest and obsession, for which he would do anything, is to reach and climb the Dark Tower to get answers about the bad things that have happened to him in life. One of the requirements for reaching the Dark Tower is that Roland must draw three certain people and bring them with him on his journey. Each of these people has weakness and strenghts and are placed in situations where they must overcome their weaknesses to succeed and be redeemed. Eddie, called the Prisoner by Roland, is the first character that Roland needs to reach the Dark Tower. Eddie is addicted to cocaine. Eddie's brother, Henry, was the one that first started using cocaine after the Vietnam war. Cocaine becomes Eddie's weakness and he becomes involved with a major drug dealer. This dealer kidnaps Henry, who is nothing but a shell at this time, and blackmails Eddie into smuggling drugs for him. Roland helps Eddie kill the drug dealer, but they are too late to save Henry. As they travel Eddie must confront his weakness and go "cold turkey" to overcome his cocaine addiction. But Eddie is only the first.

If you like science fiction, I highly recommend this series by Steven King. King's style of writing is very detailed and involved. His sentence structure can be very complex with one sentence running on for several lines. The up side of this is that King sets a very realistic stage and immerses you in the story. You should read the series in order to fully understand the story.