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Mini-Review: The Waste Lands

_[The Waste Lands](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0451210867/qid=1094785366/sr=12-1/002-5026001-7128016?v=glance&s=books)_ is the third book in Stephen King’s magnum opus _The Dark Tower_. It is perhaps flippant to dismiss the book as, indeed, a waste, but there’s just no way around it.

The Waste Lands is the third book in Stephen King’s magnum opus The Dark Tower. It is perhaps flippant to dismiss the book as, indeed, a waste, but there’s just no way around it.

The Waste Lands feels like the interminable middle section of most King novels, where nothing happens to pull the story forward, but there are lots and lots of words blippety blippety and scary things happen.

I gave up halfway through.

**Listening To: **“Song For Chesh” by Fatboy Slim itunes

Posted Friday, 10 September, 2004 by

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