It doesn’t seem like five minutes since I finished reading the first of Stephen King’s Dark Tower stories, The Gunslinger. I decided then that I was going to read them all, but when I finally got around to breaking the spine on the second book, last week, I was surprised to realize that it had been over a year since I read The Gunslinger. Time certainly seems to be flying by.

The second book is called The Drawing of the Three and although over a year has passed for me, only seven hours had passed for the gunslinger and he was just waking up on a beach to find that a monstrous lobster-like creature had it stalky eyes fixed on him for a lunch date.

I was busy doing other things last week and so The Drawing of the Three was the only book I read. I finished it though and, as always with a King, it was very good. He created a rather catchy name for the lobster-monster-things by the way. He called them Lobstrocities.

There are seven books in the Dark Tower series and I already have the next three ready and waiting on my shelf. I just hope that I don’t forget and leave them waiting for another three years.