In what ways are Roland’s new friends much like his deadly old friends? What happened to those old friends? Do you think the same fate awaits Roland’s new friends?Ĥ. What is the gunslinger litany? What worldview does it imply-from what a gunslinger should honor to how he/she should attack his/her enemies?ģ. What causes them? Does Eddie now trust Roland? Does Susannah?Ģ. Between the end of The Drawing of the Three and the beginning of The Waste Lands, the relationships among Roland, Susannah, and Eddie shift. The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands Reading Group Guide from The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordanceġ. The Waste Lands follows The Gunslinger and The Drawing of the Three as the third volume in what may be the most extraordinary and imaginative cycle of tales in the English language. What lands, what peoples has he visited that are so unreachable to us except in the pages of his incredible books? Now Roland’s strange odyssey continues. The Dark Tower Series continues to show Stephen King as a master of his craft. There are new evils…new dangers to threaten Roland’s little band in the devastated city of Lud and the surrounding wastelands, as well as horrific confrontations with Blaine the Mono, the piratical Gasher, and the frightening Tick-Tock Man. Roland, Susannah, and Eddie must draw Jake into Mid-World and then follow the Path of the Beam all the way to the Dark Tower. Now Roland and Jake exist in different worlds, but they are joined by the same madness: the paradox of double memories. But Roland altered ka by saving the life of Jake Chambers, a boy who-in Roland’s world-has already died. Eddie Dean has given up heroin, and Odetta’s two selves have joined, becoming the stronger and more balanced personality of Susannah Dean. Several months have passed since The Drawing of the Three, and in The Waste Lands, Roland’s two new tet-mates have become trained gunslingers. The third volume in the #1 nationally bestselling Dark Tower Series, involving the enigmatic Roland (the last gunfighter) and his ongoing quest for the Dark Tower, is “Stephen King at his best” ( School Library Journal).

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