Genre : Fantasy
Authors : Stephen King
And the gunslinger followed."
Thus begins the Dark Tower Series by Steven King. The second book of the series, Drawing of the Three, takes the level of the story to a higher plane. It begins with the gunslinger, sleeping alone on a beach not far from where he and the Man in Black held palaver. He is awakened by the tide rushing over him, and his first thought was, of course, about his guns. Or, more importantly, the shells on his waist. Half of them have been drenched before he is able to get out of the waves' reach. After escaping the ocean's wrath, he notices something else: strange monstrosities that look like lobsters, only about three times as large. Before he is able to react, he is minus two fingers on his right hand and part of his big toe.
After dispatching of these lobstrosities, he continues up the beach, in search of what the Man in Black told him about: three doors, at which he would draw his next three amigos that would follow him in his quest - The Prisoner, The Lady of Shadows, and The Pusher. At the last door, he is supposed to find death. "But not for you, gunslinger," warns the Man in Black.
This book heightens the story begun by the first, and this remains to be what I believe the best one of the series. The amount of detail, and the way you get attached to the characters is unsurpassed in anything else I have read. By the end of the book, you think you know them well, but when you're in the middle of the next one, you realize you were all wrong. I think one of the strongest points of this series would be the character selection, and the way he fleshes them out so they are almost real. Writing a movie for this series (which I think should be done) would probably be easy.