5: The Drawing of the Three (Part 1)

We begin book two of The Dark Tower, The Drawing of The Three. We're discussing the Prologue through Part 1: The Prisoner - Chapter 3! Roland meets Eddie Dean and has his first Tooter Fish Popkin. 

Next week we'll complete Part 1: The Prisoner by discussing Chapters 4 and 5! Remember to check out the show schedule below if you're ever unsure of which chapters are covered when!

Listener Discussion:

How does Roland in the opening of this novel differ from Roland in The Gunslinger?

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So happy to have found this podcast!

I can't get over how glad I am to have found this podcast! We ask the same questions and have many of the same ideas. It really is like book club whenever I want it!

Especially love the thought about Roland's disfigurement being punishment for letting Jake fall. Oh how the virtuous have fallen.

I think that when it is mentioned that Roland has no imagination, it's to inform the reader that it will be the way he assumes because that is just how things are...more of a statement of blunt objectivity with no room for a creative solution. You go through the desert because the desert is the next path that the Man In Black followed, you go North on the beach because that is the obvious direction for the next steps towards the Tower. Roland is not deliberately obtuse, he is honor bound to a path and an oath, or that is the feeling you get from this section. He does what he must because he must.

Good show

I love the show. Great to hear people talk about this amazing series. One correction…It’s not pronounced “Cuth-Bert. It’s Queue-th-bert. That’s the way sai Stephen King says it.