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Aaron
01-22-2009, 10:54 AM
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The Waste Lands
Donald M. Grant, 1991


Round 2, Group VI

Voting for this Book is Closed

Strength of Plot:
2.8125 (Graded A)

Character Development:
2.760416667 (Graded A)

Quality of Ending:
2.39583333 (Graded B)

Overall Average Grade:
2.65625 (Graded B+)

Combined Round 1 & 2 scores:
7.322916667

Daghain
01-22-2009, 11:13 AM
I'll give this one straight A's. I thought it did a good job of moving the plot along and was an overall good read.

jayson
01-22-2009, 11:33 AM
AAC

The book is perfect, except for the "ending" which I don't believe it actually has. I resented King for many many years for ending it on Blaine until he finally published W&G. If you read it for the first time when W&G was already available perhaps the ending sits better, but when you had to wait years to see if King would ever return to Roland and the tet it didn't do anything but piss me the hell off.

Chooch
01-22-2009, 11:54 AM
A+B+A+

mae
01-22-2009, 12:51 PM
Triple Bs.

theyspunaweb
01-22-2009, 01:38 PM
Triple As again...just because of what we're voting on. Even though I liked Drawing of the Three more and this got the same score. The ending was tricky, since it was a cliff hanger ending. But I loved it still.

Randall Flagg
01-22-2009, 01:56 PM
AAC

The book is perfect, except for the "ending" which I don't believe it actually has. I resented King for many many years for ending it on Blaine until he finally published W&G. If you read it for the first time when W&G was already available perhaps the ending sits better, but when you had to wait years to see if King would ever return to Roland and the tet it didn't do anything but piss me the hell off.
Perfectly said, and the exact sentiments I have, as well as the identical grading.

Spencer
01-22-2009, 03:15 PM
I'm thinking everyone knows what I gave this. :lol:

fernandito
01-22-2009, 04:24 PM
AAB

Sam
01-22-2009, 07:52 PM
All AAAA's man. Wish I could give it A+ since it fueled my DT desire for nearly eight years.

obscurejude
01-22-2009, 09:50 PM
A,B,C

BROWNINGS CHILDE
01-22-2009, 10:28 PM
BAA,
I liked the ending, and it is the one ending of all the books that I remember most clearly. Granted, the wait for W & G was long and terrible. But, this is one of my favs of the series.

Jean
01-23-2009, 12:30 AM
all A's

Django
01-23-2009, 04:20 AM
BBC.

The plot - what is it, they just go from point A to point B and Jake joins them.
Characters - by now they are already developed. We learn more about Jake, that's cool. Other characters? What, the Tick-Tock man?
The ending - There is none.

My favorite character in this book is Oy.

3 DOORS DOWN
01-23-2009, 06:04 AM
AAA The best book out of the DT series

Cutter
01-23-2009, 07:52 AM
AAA The best book out of the DT series

I'm with on that one 3 Doors down, this was my favorite. And I also read this when it came out and waited for W&G, but the ending didn't bother me, though.

I just love the city of Lud part, which had some of the most picturesque scenes in the series. At least for me it did.

Mad Man
01-23-2009, 08:10 AM
The second favorite from DT series in my opinion - AAA

B Rag
01-23-2009, 10:08 AM
A!A!A!

Patrick
01-24-2009, 12:02 AM
BBA. I loved how King ended this book.

girl at the window
01-24-2009, 05:48 AM
This is actually one of my least favorite of The Dark Tower Series. For some reason I had a really hard time getting through this book and I'm not sure why. I got really tired of Blaine the Mono and his riddles. Maybe I had a lot going on in my personal life at the time, maybe I suck at riddles but basically I thought Blaine was a pain.

razz
01-24-2009, 08:47 AM
A! A! OY! er... A!

i like the cliffhanger. i think if King had continued into the whole Blaine riddle contest instead of putting it in w&G, it would have turned out badly

jayson
01-24-2009, 10:14 AM
A! A! OY! er... A!

i like the cliffhanger. i think if King had continued into the whole Blaine riddle contest instead of putting it in w&G, it would have turned out badly

And if King had never returned to the series at all it wouldn't actually have an ending at all. I spent many years wondering if King would ever return to Roland. If for some reason he hadn't, it would at least be nice to know what happened on the train even if we didn't ever find out what happened after that. To me a cliffhanger isn't an ending.

PPKNexus
01-24-2009, 12:37 PM
AAC

The ending of Drawing of the Three was far more psychologically intense. I did enjoy the development of Jake's character, and constant foreshadowing of Blaine.

ksmithcats
01-24-2009, 07:09 PM
Even though I think whichever volume of the series is my favorite one while I'm reading it, I think this one really may be the very bestest of all.

ManOfWesternesse
01-26-2009, 06:58 AM
AAA again!

Jayson, I know what you're saying about the ending, but to me that still doesn't take away from the quality of the ending.

... though yes of course, I was pissed off oftentimes over those years with the lack of any news of a beginning to the next Book!

Brice
01-26-2009, 07:02 AM
I love cliffhangers. This one really pissed me off though. :lol: ...and the wait. :cry:

alinda
01-29-2009, 06:12 AM
A A C for me, I hated this ending, and the wait for next book.