The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three

"I guess all the books could function as standalone books if you wanted, but I wouldn’t recommend it because you get so much more if you read them all. The base story is in The Gunslinger , then there’s this one, then five more books. I’d recommend you read them all, books one to seven. Plus there’s a bonus book as well. But that’s perhaps 4000 pages all in, so I wouldn’t read them back to back. Oh, everything. At base, it’s a very simple story. You have ‘The Gunslinger’ who is trying to save the world by saving the Dark Tower. Around the tower are different worlds; you open a door and enter a different world. So he travels between our world and other worlds, but also around the Dark Tower. Many of the worlds are similar, but not exactly the same. In one world, it’s basically the same as our world, but instead of Coca-Cola they have Nozz-A-La, small tweaks like that. He meets other people and a ‘billy bumbler,’ which is like a mix between a dog, a fox, and a raccoon. They travel through worlds trying to save the tower. It’s a long story, but it’s worth reading. Yes, it’s really the best one, I think. That’s when the group comes together and you get to meet all the characters."