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The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King

26 reviews

dovahkiin_shea's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

socialpsysteph's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

A big goal this year is to make progress on the many series I am reading so I'm jumping back into The Dark Tower to try to make some progress. I enjoyed the first one when I read it (4 stars) so I was excited to go back into this weird, fantasy, Western, world. In this installment, Roland comes across 3 strange doors that are just standing on the beach. When he opens them, he finds something that he hopes will get him closer to the Dark Tower. I think I liked this one even more than the first one (though the rating stays the same). I was intrigued the entire time and felt like I couldn't put it down. 

This book counts for Popsugar 2023 for a book published the year I was born and for Adventures in Aeldia 2023 for the June prompt to "visit a wizard tower" and read a book with a prologue. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Mental illness, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Gun violence

duedate8898's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Hate crime, Mental illness, and Murder

Moderate: Racial slurs and Racism

carleneb's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Vomit, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

filmmaths's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

Still don't really understand the meaning/value of the dark tower, but there's more to appreciate here than just setting (which I couldn't say for my first read of the Gunslinger).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

saemiligr's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

This was a wild ride. I struggled with the first book, and I hesitated to pick this one up. It ended up absolutly grabbing me and dragging me along. There are not many books I slow down my reading speed for for audiobooks, and this one was 100% worth it. I ended up consuming the whole thing in less than two days. Can't wait for the next one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

eggyleggy's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

love love love love love

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, and Murder

directorpurry's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Violence, Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Gun violence

Minor: Child death

nodogsonthemoon's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Violence, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Cursing, Racism, Blood, Kidnapping, and Car accident

ggcd1981's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Este é o quarto livro (não contando os contos) que leio de Stephen King e o segundo volume da The Dark Tower Series. Vi várias pessoas dizendo que é no segundo livro que a série começa a ficar boa, mas na verdade preferi The Gunslinger a The Drawing of the Three, apesar da diferença não ser grande. No primeiro volume o mundo era intrigante e misterioso, o livro tinha problemas, mas não superaram meu interesse pelo mundo e personagens. Em The Drawing of the Three, apesar do positivo superar o negativo, os problemas da obra me incomodaram mais. Sendo breve sobre os pontos negativos:

A) Detta Walker, uma das personalidades de Odetta Holmes. Detta é um estereotipo ofensivo de mulher negra, King está ciente disso pois na obra Roland e Eddie Dean referenciam este fato literalmente dizendo que Detta age como um estereotipo. Porém o texto estar ciente disso não torna a leitura das cenas de Detta mais agradável. Ao final da obra o melhor evento é que Detta some (assim como Odetta) dando lugar a personalidade unificada de Susana Dean; B) a hiper-sexualização de personagens femininos, o que já acontecia no volume 1, mas infelizmente continua no volume 2; C) O último elemento que não gostei foi que em alguns momentos King escolheu mostrar a mesma cena do ponto de vista de várias pessoas, incluindo, por exemplo, Roland dentro da cabeça de Eddie e o próprio Eddie. As sequências em que o autor fez isso eram breves porem repetitivas e deixavam a cena um pouco maçante.

Apesar desses pontos o livro foi interessante e de fácil leitura. Gostei do conceito de 3 portas na praia que levavam para dentro da cabeça de pessoas no mundo que conhecemos: O prisioneiro Eddie Dean, A dama das sombras Odetta Holmes/Detta Walker e Morte, Jack Mort (um psicopata assassino responsável por eventos horríveis que influenciaram as vidas dos personagens do livro). Eu sempre prefiro os aspectos fantásticos do que os elementos mais realistas da história (ex. de realidade: o envolvimento de Eddie no tráfico de drogas).

Os personagens continuam sendo um ponto alto da escrita de King e ele faz com que ler sobre eles seja interessante mesmo quando você não gosta de alguns deles. Muita gente critica King por escrever demais. Para mim todos os detalhes que ele acrescenta dão profundidade ao mundo e personagens. Continuarei com a série e dou a The Drawing of the Tree 3.5 estrelas. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide attempt