Wave 1A: 11/22/63 vs. The Drawing of the Three

[Jean]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/14/11-22-63.jpgvs.http://www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/510/medium/DOTT_face.jpg


This is the third and final round of our 2012 Constant Reader Awards. Please vote for the book you would rather re-read. The winner receives 0.1 points added to its score previously acquired in the first two rounds.

If you haven't yet read either book or both of them, please vote Never read one or both titles. Feel free to discuss your votes in this thread.

[Jean]

The Drawing, without any doubt

[Iwritecode]

TDotT was a really good book. Of all the DT books it's probably the one that stands on it's own the best. It's also really the only one that doesn't end with a big cliffhanger.

That said, I can't vote against 11/22/63. I can definitely see it finishing in the top 3 when this is over.

[Heather19]

TDotT was a really good book. Of all the DT books it's probably the one that stands on it's own the best. It's also really the only one that doesn't end with a big cliffhanger.

That said, I can't vote against 11/22/63. I can definitely see it finishing in the top 3 when this is over.

I can too. And I know I just read 11/22/63, but I'd easily read it again.

[Jean]

but you both can vote against The Drawing that has been your true friend for decades?.. with the doors, the forspecial plate, Jack Mort, the drugstore scene? Eddie Dean and his brother, Andolini and the lobstrosities; Eddie and Odetta wishing on the star bright, first star you see tonight; Roland so acutely human and that first time when you felt that the Tower is not a figment of a schoolboy's Browning-fed imagination, but the reality that looms on your horizon?

(and it's only one hundredths of things that are there, marvellous gems, in each paragraph, almost each line! it's a treasury of a book, just like most King before the few latest books)

oh come on...

[mae]

I actually agonized here, because both are amazing novels. Had to go with DT2, but just barely. (Bearly? :unsure:)

[Jean]

bearely is the correct term that applies when someone, of his own free will but after a prolonged agony, makes a decision that bears applaude

[Ben Staad]

forspecial fo'sure.

[divemaster]

The Drawing of the Three was good, but it falls about the middle of the pack for the Dark Tower novels (too much Detta/Odetta--never liked her character much no matter what she called herself from book to book.).

So my vote went to 11/22/63, which I liked a lot.

[Xile]

The Drawing of the Three has my vote. 11/22/63 was a super slow read to me. Seemed to drag on and on. Maybe I just don't care that much about JFK (way before my time). I couldn't sit down Drawing last time I read it because I was constantly excited about Roland's next visit to our world.

[mae]

Really? 11/22/63 didn't drag for me at all. If anything, it seems like the action was too fast. I devoured the book in record time, and JFK and the '60s were way before my time, too.

[harrison ryan]

I thought 11/22 sagged a bit in the middle. It's DTII for me.

[beam*seeker]

Have not read 11/22/63 yet.

[mae]

Hm, surprisingly close.

[Jean]

dangerously close, bears would say

[Jon]

More imagination was needed by me, the reader, in TDotT. I vote for the lobstrosities.

[Patrick]

The Drawing of the Three was good, but it falls about the middle of the pack for the Dark Tower novels (too much Detta/Odetta--never liked her character much no matter what she called herself from book to book.).

So my vote went to 11/22/63, which I liked a lot.
Yep.

[Brice]

Well, I REALLY enjoyed 11/22/63 a lot....with that said it isn't even in the same realm as Drawing...the book that made me first love tdt and which I searched for a long time. Nope, not even a tiny bit close. There aren't many people I love as much as this book. Some I would trade for it.

[Jean]

Last chance to vote! the poll is closing!

[mae]

The poll has closed. The winner with 54.55% of the vote was The Drawing of the Three. It receives 0.1 points in addition to its current FAS (Final Average Score), making it 7.430503678.

[Jean]

: happy bear :

[DoctorDodge]

: happy bear :

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ll3gv7ZBgG1qi98lko1_400.gif

[Jean]

hey! bears can't see the picture!!!

[beam*seeker]

Makes me wanna read the 11/23/63 if it is "nearly as good as TDot3"

[mae]

'Tis.

[Jean]

No.