The Drawing of the Three

Now this is a little more like it. Far more intriguing, cohesive, and epic than The Gunslinger, Drawing of the Three continues to follow Roland on his quest to the Dark Tower - only now he's discovered worlds other than his own, and companions to help him locate the Tower. Those companions help us better understand the scale of what Roland's undertaking, the same way birds or structures are added to fantasy art to show something is at a much larger scale than otherwise assumed.

Also, the relevation of the identity of the man in black brought a big smile to my face; I knew going in that The Dark Tower had connections to a lot of the other King books I've read (Hearts in Atlantis being the one that always first comes to mind), but I assumed that that was just a one-way relationship. It will be interesting to see how that develops further in this series.