The Drawing of the Three
Contents ( 56)
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- On Being Nineteen (and a Few Other Things)
- 19
- RENEWAL
- ARGUMENT
- PROLOGUE: THE SAILOR
- PROLOGUE
- THE PRISONER
- CHAPTER 1
- The Door
- CHAPTER 2
- Eddie Dean
- CHAPTER 3
- Contact and Landing
- CHAPTER 4
- The Tower
- CHAPTER 5
- Showdown and Shoot-Out
- SHUFFLE
- THE LADY OF SHADOWS
- CHAPTER 1
- Detta and Odetta
- CHAPTER 2
- Ringing the Changes
- CHAPTER 3
- Odetta On the Other Side
- CHAPTER 4
- Detta On the Other Side
- RE-SHUFFLE
- THE PUSHER
- CHAPTER 1
- Bitter Medicine
- CHAPTER 2
- The Honeypot
- CHAPTER 3
- Roland Takes His Medicine
- CHAPTER 4
- The Drawing
- FINAL SHUFFLE
- AFTERWORD
- BOOK ONE
- JAKE
- FEAR IN A HANDFUL OF DUST
- I
- BEAR AND BONE
- I
- Bear and Bone
- Continue Reading…
- CHARACTERS
- SLEEPING BEAUTIES
- PART ONE
- THE AULD TRIANGLE
- CHAPTER 1
- Continue Reading…
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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CONTENTS
Introduction
Argument
PROLOGUE: THE SAILOR
THE PRISONER
1. The Door
2. Eddie Dean
3. Contact and Landing
4. The Tower
5. Showdown and Shoot-Out
SHUFFLE
THE LADY OF SHADOWS
1. Detta and Odetta
2. Ringing the Changes
3. Odetta On the Other Side
4. Detta On the Other Side
RE-SHUFFLE
THE PUSHER
1. Bitter Medicine
2. The Honeypot
3. Roland Takes His Medicine
4. The Drawing
FINAL SHUFFLE
Afterword
'The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands' Excerpt
About the Author
To Don Grant, who’s taken a chance on these novels, one by one.
INTRODUCTION
On Being Nineteen (and a Few Other Things)
I
Hobbits were big when I was nineteen (a number of some import in the stories you are about to read).
There were probably half a dozen Merrys and Pippins slogging through the mud at Max Yasgur’s farm during the Great Woodstock Music Festival, twice as many Frodos, and hippie Gandalfs without number. J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings was madly popular in those days, and while I never made it to Woodstock (say sorry), I suppose I was at least a halfling-hippie. Enough of one, at any rate, to have read the books and fallen in love with them. The Dark Tower books, like most long fantasy tales written by men and women of my generation (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, by Stephen Donaldson, and The Sword of Shannara, by Terry Brooks, are just two of many), were born out of Tolkien’s.