Reading Post #4

This week I decided to start a another book called The drawing of the Three written by Stephen King. The story follows the life of a gunslinger named Roland. He must get to the dark tower to find out why he is alive in the world; but that is in the seventh book and this is only the second. Anyway, Roland finds out that in order to reach the dark Tower he must find the "Three Doors". The book creates a dual/parallel universe where inside the doors is the "door" to a persons mind, but the thing is that they are in, what it seems like, a whole different dimension as well as different points in time. This sense of altered reality strikes as almost being quite similar to Slaughterhouse-five and I wonder if Stephen King was perhaps inspired by Vonnegut's use of time travel.

Roland's personality is one that he sees other people as a tool so that he can get what he wants. He couldn't care less if a person lived or died just as long as they bring him forward in his journey to the Dark Tower. This book brings a sense of time travel, complete surrealism, as well as euphoric states into a book that helps keep things interesting but still leaving much to the imagination.