The Drawing of the Three

This book is weird, man. Even for a Stephen King book, it's weird. I suppose the weirdest thing about it is that if Stephen King hadn't written it, I wouldn't be reading it. It reads like a very long short story: there are few characters, the world is sparsely populated, and although the characters get through an ordeal, they don't truly make much progress. Well, they do and they don't. I suppose you could argue either way. A lot happens, but it doesn't get Roland much closer to The Tower.

The point is Stephen King did write it, so it's a lot of fun to read and hard to put down.