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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. And so it ends. King wraps up pretty much all of the threads and characters in his usual morose way. The final confrontation is a major letdown. But the book is saved/further destroyed by the epilogue that you will either love or hate. (  )mohi | Jul 5, 2009 |   BOOOO! What kind of an author writes a hate letter to his fans before they can even read the crappy ending he just vomited up? (  )BeckahRah | Jul 3, 2009 | A great ending to a great series. (  )pixiedark | May 13, 2009 | 1  Artwork beautifully done. A great ending to a great series! ( )pixiedark | May 13, 2009 | 1 As good or maybe better then The Gunslinger and The Drawing of The Three. There is a lot more action in this book with many mini climax's. Not all of the main characters make it to the dark tower. Steve King as a character in the book had a small part. Really like the ending of The Dark Tower, it felt like everything was wrapped up not leaving you with a lot of questions. (  )capetowncanada | Apr 16, 2009 | 1 0.057 seconds to build listing 
 N 1970, when he was 22, Stephen King wrote a sentence he liked: ''The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.'' It's an innocent sentence -- pulpy and suggestive -- but it grew to become a monster. As the first line in the ''Dark Tower'' series, it begins a story King intended to be the longest popular novel in history. With the publication of ''The Dark Tower VII,'' the series has topped the 4,000-page mark and, mercifully, reached its conclusion.  King's "The Dark Tower" is the culmination of a saga that spans 3,000 pages, seven primary volumes, at least 15 ancillary ones and more than three decades of effort on the part of its author.
Amazon.com (ISBN 0743538110, Audio CD)At one point in this final book of the Dark Tower series, the character Stephen King (added to the plot in Song of Susannah) looks back at the preceding pages and says "when this last book is published, the readers are going to be just wild." And he's not kidding.After a journey through seven books and over 20 years, King's Constant Readers finally have the conclusion they've been both eagerly awaiting and silently dreading. The tension in the Dark Tower series has built steadily from the beginning and, like in the best of King's novels, explodes into a violent, heart-tugging climax as Roland and his ka-tet finally near their goal. The body count in The Dark Tower is high. The gunslingers come out shooting and face a host of enemies, including low men, mutants, vampires, Roland's hideous quasi-offspring Mordred, and the fearsome Crimson King himself. King pushes the gross-out factor at times--Roland's lesson on tanning (no, not sun tanning) is brutal--but the magic of the series remains strong and readers will feel the pull of the Tower as strongly as ever as the story draws to a close. During this sentimental journey, King ties up loose ends left hanging from the 15 non-series novels and stories that are deeply entwined in the fabric of Mid-World through characters like Randall Flagg (The Stand and others) or Father Callahan ('Salem's Lot). When it finally arrives, the long awaited conclusion will leave King's myriad fans satisfied but wishing there were still more to come. In King's memoir On Writing, he tells of an old woman who wrote him after reading the early books in the Dark Tower series. She was dying, she said, and didn't expect to see the end of Roland's quest. Could King tell her? Does he reach the Tower? Does he save it? Sadly, King said he did not know himself, that the story was creating itself as it went along. Wherever that woman is now (the clearing at the end of the path, perhaps?), let's hope she has a copy of The Dark Tower. Surely she would agree it's been worth the wait. --Benjamin Reese (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:24 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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