The second book in the Dark Tower series, The Drawing of the Three, is thought of by some as "the best" in the series. It, after all, introduces the main characters for the story (besides the gunslinger, Roland Deschain, star of the first book), and does so in an interesting fashion. If nothing else, this second book serves as a good study of human behavior, as it introduces Eddie Dean, a heroin addict, and Odetta/Detta Walker, a handicapped schizophrenic civil rights activist. Nothing in the book is expressively poorly done, but I wish that some of the fluff had been cut down. Entire short chapters in the book can be summed up as "they wandered along the beach trying to find something." While it's well done, there's not much action to be had until the middle of the book -- after the opening chapter, of course, where Roland has a bad encounter with a strange crab creature.
Overall, it's a good book and a good addition to the series. I preferred The Gunslinger, if only because I enjoyed getting to know Roland more than I enjoyed getting to know Eddie and Odetta. Stay tuned for the next book, The Waste Lands, next week.
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