The Dark Tower Series

Just finished 'The Gunslinger' or Part 1. Anyone else read this series? What do you think if it?

IMO Roland is a little bit too emo at times, and what happened to Jake was cruel even though it tells you it's gonna happen for half the book. Also the fight with Cort was really well done I thought.

Quit while you're ahead. I spent over half of my life following this series, waiting year after year for the next book to come out. Only to be screwed over by an author that had no idea how to conclude the book. I wish S. King had died when he got hit by that truck. LOL

Did-a-chick? Dum-a-chum? Dad-a-cham? Ded-a-check?

Spoilers include SPIKE DIES.

>>2

It appears I have come in at the right time then. Since King professes to have finished the last book. Wonder when it'll come out, probably the day after I die.

>>4

It's already finished. The last book was published 2 years ago I think. All in all it's a decent story, just don't get your hopes up for a satisfactory ending.

I need astin.

Stephen King broke my heart with the ending to the Dark Tower series. without toally spoiling it, he tries to pull some "Breaking the fourth wall" bullshit in the last three books, and then throws in a Mary Sue character which the last two completely revolve around.

egotistical asshole.

I hated this series with a passion then I started to like it and the it got sour when they tried to make a cripple an action hero. WTF king?

I just finsished it, its deffinatley worth reading but the ending is kind of a let down, its the story getting to the ending that counts though.

I remember picking this up back when only the first two books were out.

Seriously, he admitted misgivings about the whole thing as early as book 2.  He went from a bunch of interconnected stories about a near psychopathic wandering warrior to the gradually less downbeat Roland.  When he said that the series would get completed after his accident I knew the tone would change.  I don't agree with the tone of the last three books, but given the direction he went with them and the other works & legends be based it around I don't believe any other ending for Roland was possible.

Spoilers: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

I had to stop reading the entire seriies when he wrote an entire book about Rolands' past.  Seriously, it was the most long-winded, boring thing I've ever read. Worse then The Dark Half.

I saw a guns and roses t-shirt the other day with two revolvers wraped in roses, it made me think about the series, epecialy the last book.

I didn't make it to the last one. Thankfully, my dad told me how it ended, and from the mere description I was disapointed.

Perhaps I should begin from where I left off, but that would waste the effort I made to stop reading it.

GUNSLINGER DIES

yeah the ending was a disappointment, key words: Ghouls and Ghosts, seriously, same ending.

I love the books though.

I thought the 4th one was the best, the whole Susan/Roland story in Mejis was almost more interesting than the rest of the actual dark tower books.

The Gunslinger and Drawing of the Three were excellent. Wastelands was pretty rock too. Wizard and Glass failed miserably. Wolves of the Calla went back into "decent", and then Song of Susannah = ULTIMATE FAIL. I know how the series ends, and I just haven't wrenched up the courage to see if the seventh book sucks as badly as it seems it would.
Spoilers: This time, he has the Horn of Eld-this is the last go-round.

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I WANT TO READ THE STORY OF HIM WITH THE HORN

write it king write it

The first books were the best, then King shot down some drinks and made it a loop.

I'm about halfway through the last book, and I personally have loved the series. The first one was harder for me to pay attention to, I kinda felt completely detached from it, not really caring about the characters at all, but it went uphill with Drawing of the Three.

The series started to go downhill after "Wolves of the Calla". I mean, come on: The wolves were robots wearing Dr. Doom hoods and they were armed to the teeth with Star Wars lightsabers and exploding Harry Potter snitches. WTF?!?!