I'd been following this series for years as they were coming out and I was loving every page. "I couldn't believe it when I got to the end of this book. its just no longer the one we were reading." Jason And by that I mean, yes, he is telling a story.
The contrast between what the story had become at this point and what it should have been (Mejis and "The Gunslinger" will forever be captured in my imagination) is all too evident at this point in the series and with the following volume, Wolves of the Calla, it was all but blatant that King had lost the plot. You can actually see the duality of the quality of the story in this novel, the sheer scope and quality of Roland's no bull**** recounted tale in Mejis versus the bland and ludicrous weirdness of the story of the Ka-tet of the Nineteen and Ninety and Nine. Wizard and Glass is by far my favourite installment to the series because of the absolute quality with which Roland's sojourn to Mejis with his friends was written. I completely fell in love with The Gunslinger when I first read it and subsequently picked up the next 3 volumes. "When you strip away all the excess fat in the DT series (King's allusions to his other novels, the copious number of various minor coincidences scattered throughout the series explained away as "ka", characters which shouldn't even be in the series in the first place, basically everything that is "19") what's left after all is said and done is an extremely weak, unfinished and poorly written story. I feel I have been taken advantage of by Mr King and wasted all those years." Nivek Given that people followed these works for years (I remember reading of a letter sent to King by a woman diagnosed with terminal cancer asking to be told the end of the story because she would not live to read it herself) it's a crying shame that he couldn't come up with anything more convincing than what he has done. However it seems that, in the end, King could not find a fitting way to wrap things up and took an easy way out. "Am I the only person to feel cheated and let down by this book, the final chapter of the Dark Tower series which I have been following for over 30 years? My overall impression was that in some ways these books were almost 'writing themselves' and evolving a deep and meaningful story with a life of its own.
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Let's hope the rumoured TV serialisation and movies turn out half so good, if they turn up at all!" Hippy Sal It's a series destined to go down as one of the greats of modern fantasy. Perhaps the most fitting evidence that King succeeded with me is that, despite working my way through all seven books, I am still eager to read more about Roland and his background." Dr.
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"It's one of those series of books that are quite hard to *like*, because they are full of such pain and darkness and sadness, but they are absorbing in a way that very few series can hope to achieve. And finally, he realises, he may have to walk the last dark strait alone.įirst, let’s take a look at the positive reviews: As he finally closes in on the tower, Roland's every step is shadowed by a terrible and sinister creation. Roland and Eddie are in Maine, looking for the site which will lead them to Susannah. Susannah-Mia has been carried off to New York to give birth, Terrified of what may happen, Jake, Father Callahan and Oy follow. Roland's band of pilgrims remains united, though scattered. I did not particularly like book six, for many reasons, and although I have warmed to it during re-reads it still remains, in my opinion, a weakness, but luckily book seven, this book, provides the series with the fitting denouement it deserves.
I found books four and five tough going on first read but wonderfully enjoyable on re-read. The first three Dark Tower books are amongst the best I have read in the genre. My thoughts can be read in the preceding six reviews but I will try to recap my reading experience in one paragraph: So when I reach the final review I like to look at what others say, what the majority have loved or detested about the seven books. Over thirty years in the writing, it is a vast, sprawling tale of one man's quest, some may say obsession, and the story is excellent, the characters that populate it amongst that special type that remain with the reader forever. Yes, I have slight reservations but when taken as a whole it is the magnum opus that its author, Stephen King, hoped it would be. I hold the Dark Tower series in the very highest regard. When it gets to the last book in a series there is very little left unsaid.
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